{"product_id":"heward-moeran-symphony-in-g-minor-1942-pasc180","title":"HEWARD Moeran: Symphony in G minor (1942) - PASC180","description":"overviewfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eMOE\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eRAN \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eSymphony in G\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e minor\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eRecorded in 19\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003e42\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eTotal duration: 43:25 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eHallé Orchestra\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003econducted by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eLeslie Heward\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_titlefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fFanfare Review578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_quotefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fThis intense Howard performance will come as quite a shock: the real thing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_bodyfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp class=\"B\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"TIMES\"\u003eThis wartime recording, made with the composer\nhidden in the hall, is the most distinguished recorded performance of\nthe Moeran Symphony. Handley, Lloyd-Jones, and Boult are wonderful, and\nfeature much better sound. But Howard inspires massive emotional\ncommitment from the players, right from the first movement’s second\nsubject, to the jagged close of the finale. Add a vastly rhapsodic\naccount of the slow movement, plus a fleeting Scherzo, and you’ve a\nperiod piece that transcends its time. \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"Br\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"TIMES\"\u003eThe technical limitations can’t all be\ntranscended, and the ends of the 78 sides feature limited sound quality.\nDivine Art has a transfer of the same version available, which I don’t\nknow. This is Pristine’s second transfer, and it’s a big success, with\nspace around the strings, clear winds and brass, and power in the drums\nand basses. If you enjoy Sibelius, Bax, and the English schools, then\ndownload or order this with confidence. If you already own the\ncompetition, and you like the work, then this intense Howard performance\nwill come as quite a shock: the real thing. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"Br\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TIMES\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TIMESb\"\u003ePaul Ingram \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv id=\"dateBlockDiv\"\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eThis article originally appeared in Issue 33:3 (Jan\/Feb 2010) of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eFanfare\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003e Magazine.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp class=\"B\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9main_samplefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fsamples\/PASC180.mp3578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fProducer's Note578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcontent578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp align=\"center\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 24px;\"\u003eOne of the finest British Symphonies of the 20th Century\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"bodybig\" align=\"center\"\u003e\u003cem class=\"bodymid\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e New transfer and XR remastering of this superb première recording\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp class=\"body\"\u003eThis is the third transfer I've made of this recording, which was the first to gain a limited release on the Pristine Audio label as a CD back in 2002. A second, and much more accomplished transfer, is currently available on the Divine Art label, coupled with a many other works by Moeran issued on 78rpm discs during the composer's lifetime. As a long-time promoter of the music of Moeran and editor of The Worldwide Moeran Database, I had long regretted that this Divine Art release was prepared just a few weeks prior to the development of what was to become the Pristine Audio XR remastering system, which has proved so effective in the present transfer, together with a host of other technical advances in the field of audio restoration during the last 3 years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"body\"\u003eI was inspired, therefore, by the highly successful resurrection of the Symphony in the 2009 BBC Proms season to revisit the recording with a fresh transfer and see what results might be achieved. Despite the obvious end-of-side shortcomings of the often slightly over-long wartime discs, I was delighted to find further grest advances in sound quality were possible. The composer, told to stay away from the recording sessions, had concealed himself behind closed doors - only to make a tramatic appearance in support of principal clarinettist Pat Ryan over a disputed interpretation of a solo line - ultimately pronounced himself delighted at this definitive recording. I trust he would be equally surprised and delighted at the additional sonic progress made here.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"body\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eAndrew Rose\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_download_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample3_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample4_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample5_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample6_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fFull Track Listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5ftrack_listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"body\"\u003eMOERAN\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"body\"\u003e Symphony in G minor, R71\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"body\"\u003eThe Hallé Orchestra\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"body\"\u003econducted by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"body\"\u003eLeslie Heward\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cspan class=\"bodysmallarial\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecorded\n\"under the auspices of the Britich Council\" in Manchester, England on\n26th \u0026amp; 27th November and 1st December 1942, partially in the\npresence of the composer.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bodysmallarial\"\u003eIssued in January 1943 as HMV 78s C.3319-3324 and C.7566-7571 \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bodysmallarial\"\u003eMatrix numbers 2ER641-51, takes 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1 \u003cbr\u003e Transfer and XR remastering by Andrew Rose at Pristine Audio, July 2009 \u003cbr\u003e Cover artwork based on a mid-1940s BBC portrait photograph of E. 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The new move is a welcome addition to\nthose means; here is a work strong in tensions, with lyrical episodes,\nmost imaginatively scored: informal drama, tragic rather than\nhumanely-comedic (though not for long doom-darkened) : a work to spend a\nlot of time on. Some of it — a good deal, indeed — should be spent on\nthe score, which I have not seen. (The Rawsthorne fill-up, by the way,\nhas not reached me.) The work was originally, I believe, meant as an\ninvitation-composition, the Hallé Society having asked the composer for a\nsymphony as far back as about 1926.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"bodybigblue\"\u003eThe music appeals to me by reason both of\nstrength, even roughness, and its notably lyrical sense. You can divide\nas you like the \"influences \" in Moeran—the Irish and those of Norfolk,\nwhere he long lived. Anything Irish attracts me—the more subtly Irish\nthe better: we had perhaps rather too long a spell of the \" Arrah,\nbedad, acushla, begorrah\" school...\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"body\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom The Gramophone: \u003cem\u003eAnalytical Notes and First Reviews, January 1943\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"bodybigblue\"\u003e\"Only the staunchest followers of British or\nIrish music will be able to tell you much about EJ Moeran, wounded war\nveteran, pupil of John Ireland and drinking partner of Peter Warlock.\nYet, his Symphony in G Minor proved surprisingly well worth dusting off\nfor the BBC Philharmonic. Perhaps the first real orchestral discovery of\nthis year's proms, it even stood up to the hefty counterweight of\nElgar's Second Symphony after the interval.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"bodybigblue\"\u003eLike his 1920s contemporaries, Moeran had English\nfolk-music scales in his head, but his way of using them conjures\ncraggy, isolated clifftops rather than cosy, pastoral scenes. He also\nshared Sibelius's knack for using repeated small ideas to create, almost\nby stealth, a sense of forward motion as unassailable as that of an\nocean liner. Launching straight in with a sweeping string melody\nsustained over chugging horns, Moeran's score follows the conventional\nfour-movement pattern, but the music's moods are many-layered and\nmercurial. A lot is packed into 45 minutes, and if the ensemble was not\nalways the tautest, especially when the fastest string passages were\nrevving up, Vassily Sinaisky's wholehearted conducting got a lot out of\nit...\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"body\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom The Guardian: \u003cem\u003eReview, BBC Prom 9, 24th July 2009\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab4_cover_thumbnail1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab4_cover_thumbnail2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab4_cover_download_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab4_sample1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab4_sample2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab4_sample3_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab4_sample4_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab4_sample5_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab4_sample6_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f","brand":"Pristine Classical","offers":[{"title":"Ambient Stereo 24-bit FLAC","offer_id":54932252852563,"sku":"bel1789301230115","price":12.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Ambient Stereo 16-bit FLAC","offer_id":54932252885331,"sku":"alu1789301230116","price":9.06,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Mono 16-bit FLAC","offer_id":54932252918099,"sku":"nzj1789301230117","price":9.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"320kbps Ambient Stereo MP3","offer_id":54932252950867,"sku":"kqk1789301230118","price":6.47,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/1833\/9155\/files\/heward-moeran-symphony-in-g-minor-1942---pasc180_1.jpg?v=1789301260","url":"https:\/\/lovevividclad.shop\/products\/heward-moeran-symphony-in-g-minor-1942-pasc180","provider":"luckagni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}