Julius Harrison (1885 -1963) ~ 'Bredon Hill' Rhapsody for violin & orchestra (1942)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ธ.ค. 2014
- A hauntingly beautiful piece conceived during the darkest days of wartime for public broadcast on radio as a patriotic, morale-boosting work. Written in easily accessible style for the wider public... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_H...
An anomaly in Harrison's output, unlike anything else he ever wrote. It's model, VW's The Lark Ascending.
I've never heard RVW channeled so authentically and effectively. The piece is indeed obviously inspired by, and has echoes of "The Lark Ascending," while still remaining a unique work. It has an elegaic quality to it, augmented by the bell sound toward the coda. I wonder what VW himself thougnt of it when he heard it, as I assume he must have done. Hopefully, that imitation---or at least inspiration!----truly is the sincerest form of flattery (or at least appreciation).
I am unfamiliar with the composer; you mention this piece is completely different from anything else he wrote. That seems a great pity, as he seems to have a gift and genuine feeling for this style and mood of composition. And so many who possessed these things died so young, who knows what they were robbed of writing and we of hearing?
@@marijeangalloway1560 He wrote a mass and requiem, vast in scale, both in the Germanic mode. I was given broadcast tape copies many years ago by the composers son. Interesting listening, but I felt all very uninspiring. He wrote a Worcestshire suite for strings which is all very commonplace. On Bredon Hill was his moment.
Very interesting article about Harrison & "Bredon Hill... www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2007/Jan07/Harrison.htm
Whose version is this? I once heard Lorraine McAslan's fine rendition, but there is also one by Matthew Trusler I think.
Good question! Not Trusler, I have that ~ a clean, new, digital recording. This is a much older non-commercial recording, broadcast on BBC Radio Three around thirty years ago. The BBC were involved in commissioning the work ~ it was performed & broadcast quite frequently by them back in the forties... but was pretty much forgotten by the time stereo recordings started to be made. However, 1985 being the centenary of Harrison's birth, the work was performed at Hereford Cathedral by violinist Felix Kok ~ apparently well played and well received. Since BBC Radio Three have long taken a keen interest in broadcasting from the Three Choirs Festival (Worcester, Gloucester & Hereford Cathedrals), and since our recording has a cathedral-like accoustic ambience (not improved by being recorded off the radio onto cassette tape)....
+Julian Arculus ~ It's pretty certain this is the performance used above; genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/search/0/20?adv=0&q=Julius+Harrison+ON+BREDON+HILL&media=all&yf=1923&yt=2009&mf=1&mt=12&tf=00%3A00&tt=00%3A00#search
It is this performance:
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Whix orchestra and conductot please ?
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"Bre" is Celtic for hill. "don" is Old English for hill. Hill cubed.