Power of Nature: Live [Live]

Power of Nature: Live [Live]

Track Listings

1. Sea of Roses

2. Storm Wind

3. Where Darkness Ends

4. Silent Hills

5. Some Day

6. Silent Thunder

7. Fire

8. We Will Return

9. Song for a Friend (The King)

10. White Horses

Tracks:

Sea of Roses
Storm Wind
Where Darkness Ends
Silent Hills
Some Day
Silent Thunder
Fire
We Will Return
Song for a Friend (The King)
White Horses

Average customer rating:

Impressive live performances given with the Queen present

Britten the Performer

Manufacturer: BBC Legends
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Sacred & Religious | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

English | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Choruses | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Oratorios | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00000JWIT
Release Date: 1999-08-17

Tracks:

Ode For St. Cecilia's Day: Overture. Larghetto e staccato - Allegro - Menuet l-ll
Ode For St. Cecilia's Day: Recitative: 'From Harmony, From Heav'nly Harmony'
Ode For St. Cecilia's Day: Chorus: 'From Harmony, From Heav'nly Harmony' (Tenor)
Ode For St. Cecilia's Day: Aria: 'What Passion Cannot Music Raise And Quell!'
Ode For St. Cecilia's Day: Solo And Chorus: 'The Trumpet's Loud Clangor'
Ode For St. Cecilia's Day: March
Ode For St. Cecilia's Day: Aria: 'The Soft Complaining Flute'
Ode For St. Cecilia's Day: Aria: 'Sharp Violins Proclaim Their Jealous Pangs'
Ode For St. Cecilia's Day: Aria: 'But Oh! What Art Can Teach'
Ode For St. Cecilia's Day: Aria: 'Orpheus Could Lead The Savage Race'
Ode For St. Cecilia's Day: Accompagnato: 'But Bright Cecilia Rais'd The Wonder Higher'
Ode For St. Cecilia's Day: Solo And Chorus: 'As From The Power Of Sacred Lays'
Ode For St. Cecilia's Day: Chorus: 'The Dead Shall Live, The Living Die'
Hankin Booby
Gloriana: Choral Dances

Customer Reviews:

Impressive live performances given with the Queen present.......2002-08-08

It is very nice to hear Britten's work as a performer. He was such an impressive composer that we often forget how compelling he was as an interpreter and conductor or works other than his own.

These performances were given for the dedication of concert halls and Queen Elizabeth II attended both performances with the performance of Britten's own works being given at the Queen Elizabeth concert hall on the South Bank.

The Handel performance is, since it was 1967 after all, not according to modern tastes of period instruments and performance practice. But it is a fine performance nonetheless. We should enjoy the artistry and remember how people used to perform this music and make it work. It is hard to believe that THIS is the exotic sound now. Handel's composition for St. Cecilia's Day - the patron saint of musicians and a tradition that started a couple of decades earlier, is a wonderful piece and in the tradition of Purcell's accomplishments for this day.

However, Britten conducting his own music is even more compelling. The "Choral Dances from 'Gloriana'" are exciting and the performance has that wonderful quality of all the resouces perfectly matching the musical requirements. All the resources and performance methods are absolutely right on for what the music asks for. It is an interesting study in performance practices if for nothing else.

To our ears the Handel performance seems to have things a bit grafted on, but still wonderful, while the Britten (conducted by Britten) seems perfectly matched in all aspects. It sounds compelling.

This is a good disk and deserves careful listening.

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