Magnificent performances, these, especially the Introduction and Act IV Overture. Among my all-time favourite Sullivan. Thanks for bringing these out of the closet again!
I have the complete (I think!) incidental music on a Dutton Epoch 2-CD set, coupled with "Macbeth", but have never listened to the Dunn/CBSO version until now. Clearly, I've missed out on a special performance in lovely recorded sound. HMV Greensleeve was a magic label, mid-price vinyl reissues I seem to recall. Absolutely delightful music.....
@@robertwhittaker5477 there’s nothing Schubertian in this suite and a lot of Mendelssohnian artistic lightness and dramatic brilliance. Mendelssohn‘s influence on Sullivan like in Iolanthe is obvious and stated by Sullivan himself
The music is energetic, playful, and orchestrally colorful !! Sullivan's orchestration MAY HAVE been influenced by Meyerbeer, von Weber, Berlioz, Mendelssohn, Glinka, and/or Raff (obviously, two other great ones before Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov were Wagner and Liszt). Great orchestral work by a relatively young Sullivan !
0.00 Introduction 5.00 Prelude to Act III 7.14 Banquet Dance 11.35 Overture Act IV 16.18 Dance of Nymphs & Reapers 20.25 Prelude to Act V 24.36 Epilogue
The main theme of The Dance of Nymphs and Reapers section (first appears at 17:35) I feel must've been the inspiration for the theme from the 2nd movement of Shostakovich's 5th, if it wasn't directly borrowed.
This suite from his incidental music to Shakespeare's play does not thematically differentiate the principal characters of that play like most other 19th-century composers did. Other than about one minute of stormy music in the Introduction (3:45), it is more like some ambient, light orchestral music with nothing to suggest any melodramatic action. A very merry tempest, à la Jacques Offenbach.
Magnificent performances, these, especially the Introduction and Act IV Overture. Among my all-time favourite Sullivan. Thanks for bringing these out of the closet again!
I have the complete (I think!) incidental music on a Dutton Epoch 2-CD set, coupled with "Macbeth", but have never listened to the Dunn/CBSO version until now. Clearly, I've missed out on a special performance in lovely recorded sound. HMV Greensleeve was a magic label, mid-price vinyl reissues I seem to recall. Absolutely delightful music.....
Thanks for your Sullivan postings. Melody and orchestration is wonderful.
Splendid music! Sullivan wrote the Tempest when he was 19! Mendelssohn's influence is apparent.
@@robertwhittaker5477 there’s nothing Schubertian in this suite and a lot of Mendelssohnian artistic lightness and dramatic brilliance.
Mendelssohn‘s influence on Sullivan like in Iolanthe is obvious and stated by Sullivan himself
The music is energetic, playful, and orchestrally colorful !! Sullivan's orchestration MAY HAVE been influenced by Meyerbeer, von Weber, Berlioz, Mendelssohn, Glinka, and/or Raff (obviously, two other great ones before Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov were Wagner and Liszt). Great orchestral work by a relatively young Sullivan !
0.00 Introduction
5.00 Prelude to Act III
7.14 Banquet Dance
11.35 Overture Act IV
16.18 Dance of Nymphs & Reapers
20.25 Prelude to Act V
24.36 Epilogue
Would you be the Adrian Edwards that writes for the Gramophone Magazine?
@@RoddersClassical I'm afraid not.
The overture to Act IV could be from Iolanthe. Sullivan's writing for woodwind is unequalled
I remember buying that LP in Canterbury just after it was released. 1971, I think.
Would you like to hear the Overture in C as well ? (I was in two minds as to whether to upload it.)
Rodders Yes, please. I'm not sure I have that recording any more
No problem. I have now uploaded In Memoriam as well as the Charles Groves recording of Di Ballo and the Irish Symphony.
The main theme of The Dance of Nymphs and Reapers section (first appears at 17:35) I feel must've been the inspiration for the theme from the 2nd movement of Shostakovich's 5th, if it wasn't directly borrowed.
Some of the themes sound like his Symphony (In Ireland)?
;) thank you!
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This suite from his incidental music to Shakespeare's play does not thematically differentiate the principal characters of that play like most other 19th-century composers did. Other than about one minute of stormy music in the Introduction (3:45), it is more like some ambient, light orchestral music with nothing to suggest any melodramatic action. A very merry tempest, à la Jacques Offenbach.