Avie AV 2194
Made in Britain – Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, John Wilson
Made in Britain is a rich and nostalgic journey through English music straddling the turn of the twentieth century, with John Wilson, today’s leading proponent of British music, at the helm of the UK’s oldest orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
The recording celebrates a rich period of English music, which produced evergreens such as Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending (for years No. 1 in the Classic FM Hall of Fame) and Elgar’s Salut d’amour, as well as the folk-inspired Two English Idylls by Butterworth and English Folk Song Suite by Vaughan Williams. The programme opens with Walton’s commedia dell’arte overture Scapino and closes with the Nell Gwyn Overture by Edward German, the music director of London’s Globe Theatre from 1888. Along the way we hear A Walk to the Paradise Garden from Delius’s opera A Village Romeo and Juliet and Bax’s woodland evocation The Happy Forest.
"...a nice program, well played, well captured, so a pure pleasure Symphony!" ****
Remy Franck - Pizzicato magazine - January 2012
"...a well-chosen programme of English orchestral miniatures very well recorded..."
Ivan March - Gramophone - December 2011
"...The celebrated John Wilson brings his interpretative magic to bear on these pieces ...The general mood is one of unhurried romanticism. The RPLO gentley draws out every subtlety in pieces such as Butterworth’s two delicate-as-forget-me-nots English Idylls and offers a thoughtful, languorous take on Delius’s The Walk To The Paradise Garden..." ****
Anna Britten - Classic FM Magazine - December 2011
