Wassail Dances
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Product ID: GM1 CO047
By Philip Lane
Publisher:
Goodmusic
Series:
Concert Originals
Line Up:
Symphony Orchestra
Duration:
8:00
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About this item
These dances were commissioned and first performed by the Gloucestershire Youth Orchestra conducted by Tony Hewitt-Jones in 1973. They received their first broadcast performance on BBC radio 3 in 1985 when they were performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Ashley Lawrence. A CD recording is available on the Naxos label played by the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Gavin Sutherland. The three dances are based on the traditional wassail songs of, respectively, Somerset, Yorkshire and Gloucestershire. All three movements take their theme and stretch it to its rhythmic and harmonic limits, within given parameters. While the outer ones maintain the bucolic nature of the original tune, the central one is more restrained, but rather than cosily pastoral throughout, has a deliberate and decided edge to the scoring that reflects the harsher landscape of its northern origins.
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Composer
Philip Lane (1950-)
Philip Lane (born 1950,England) is an English composer and musicologist. He is noted for his light music compositions and arrangements, as well as his painstaking work reconstructing lost film scores.
Born in Cheltenham, he attended Pate's Grammar School and later read music at Birmingham University, where his tutors included Peter Dickinson and John Joubert. Whilst at University he developed a considerable interest in Lord Berners, about whom he wrote a thesis and ultimately became a trustee of the Berners Estate, overseeing the completion of all Berners' music on to CD. He taught music at Cheltenham Ladies' College from 1971 to 1998. During this time, he was a freelance composer for London publishers. He left Cheltenham Ladies' College in 1998 to concentrate on composing and his film restorations. In November 2010, Lane received an honorary Doctorate of Music from the University of Gloucestershire.
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