Travels and Trudy
Donald Macleod with guest biographer Paul Spicer, delve into the period Bliss composed his Colour Symphony, and also met his future wife Trudy in America.
Donald Macleod and guest biographer Paul Spicer delve into the period Bliss composed his Colour Symphony and also met his future wife Trudy in America. Macleod also explores Bliss having to restart his career after his return from the USA to the UK and how his music started to turn from experimentalism to more romanticism.
The Ballads of the Four Seasons (No 1, Spring)
Geraldine McGreevy, soprano
Kathron Sturrock, piano
Rout
Elizabeth Gale, soprano
Nash Ensemble
Lionel Friend, conductor
A Colour Symphony (Red)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Richard Hickox, conductor
Oboe Quintet (Assai sostenuto)
Gordon Hunt, oboe
The Tale Quartet
The Women of Yueh (No 2, Many a girl of the south is white and lucent)
Elizabeth Gale, soprano
Nash Ensemble
Lionel Friend, conductor
Pastoral (excerpt)
Della Jones, mezzo-soprano
The Sinfonia Chorus
Davis Haslam, flute
Northern Sinfonia
Richard Hickox, conductor
Produced by Luke Whitlock
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Arthur Bliss
Ballads of the Four Seasons (Spring)
Performer: Kathron Sturrock. Singer: Geraldine McGreevy.- HYPERION : CDA 671889.
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Arthur Bliss
Rout
Singer: Elizabeth Gale. Ensemble: Nash Ensemble. Conductor: Lionel Friend.- HYPERION : CDA66137-.
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Arthur Bliss
A Colour Symphony (2nd mvt, Red)
Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Richard Hickox.- CHANDOS : CHAN-10380.
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Arthur Bliss
Oboe Quintet (1st mvt)
Performer: Gordon Hunt. Performer: Tale Quartet.- BIS : BIS CD-763.
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Arthur Bliss
Women of Yueh (No. 2, Many a Girl of the South)
Ensemble: Nash Ensemble. Singer: Elizabeth Gale. Conductor: Lionel Friend.- HYPERION : CDA66137-.
- HYPERION.
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Arthur Bliss
Pastoral (excerpt)
Performer: David Haslam. Performer: Alan Fearson. Choir: Chorus of Royal Northern Sinfonia. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox. Singer: Della Jones.- CHANDOS : chan-241-1.
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