Xiayin Wang, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, John Wilson - MacDowell Orchestral Works, Vol. 1 (2024) [24/96]

Edward MacDowell was the most highly regarded American composer of his generation, and the first to acquire a truly international reputation. Born in New York, he briefly studied piano as a teenager at the Paris Conservatoire, but quickly left to explore what he regarded as the more congenial musical environment in Germany. He studied piano and composition in Stuttgart, Wiesbaden, and then Frankfurt. After graduating in 1880, he remained in Germany for four years, before returning home, first to Boston, for eight years, and then finally to New York where he became Columbia University’s first Professor of Music. The various romantic influences that shaped the style of the First Concerto include the music of Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Schumann, and Grieg, whilst the technical demands on the soloist reveal MacDowell’s prowess as a pianist. MacDowell’s enthusiasm for the symphonic poem is reflected here by the inclusion of Lancelot und Elaine and Lamia. The former was inspired by the Arthurian legend as told by Tennyson in his Idylls of the King.

TRACKLIST

1. BBC Philharmonic Orchestra - Lancelot and Elaine, Op. 25
2. Xiayin Wang - Piano Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 15: I. Maestoso - Allegro con fuoco
3. Xiayin Wang - Piano Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 15: II. Andante tranquillo
4. Xiayin Wang - Piano Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 15: III. Presto
5. BBC Philharmonic Orchestra - Die Sarazenen & Die schöne Aldâ, Op. 30: No. 1, Die Sarazenen
6. BBC Philharmonic Orchestra - Die Sarazenen & Die schöne Aldâ, Op. 30: No. 2, Die schöne Aldâ
7. BBC Philharmonic Orchestra - 10 Woodland Sketches, Op. 51: No. 1, To a Wild Rose (Arr. for String Orchestra by Victor Herbert)
8. BBC Philharmonic Orchestra - Lamia, Op. 29



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