Prout - Organ Concerto No.1 in Em (I - Allegro Moderato)
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Ebenezer Prout (1835 - 1909)
Concerto No. 1 in E minor for organ and orchestra, Op. 5, I - Allegro Moderato
The Round Lake Summer Festival Orchestra
Glenn E. Soellner, Director
Stephen L. Pinel, Organist
It's unusual to have an Organ and full orchestra. It'd be nice to be able to listen to more pieces by Prout, history has him down as a stuffy academic, I'd like to make up my own mind. I knew this from a score nearly forty years ago !!!!.
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wunderbar
The start part is original
History has been unkind to Prout, casting him as a stuffy academic and uninspired composer - this movement belies that myth; he was obviously a skilled orchestrator (if a bit Victorian). It would be nice to hear the whole of this concerto and its counterpart (Concerto No.2), the four symphonies and the clarinet concerto. Isn’t it time we stopped judging music by the views of the 20th century avant-gardists who labelled everything from the end of the 19th century to the 1930s as unworthy or “backward-looking” and appreciated this music on its own merits. It’s taken a long time to rehabilitate Parry and Stanford, two of Britain’s foremost Victorian/Edwardian composers. Now it’s the turn of Prout, Cowen and Macfarren!!
I'd like to hear it with a better orchestra than this (bless them, they tried) and while the Ferris organ is a great historic instrument it isn't very flexible - and wasn't in 100% operation when this was recorded.
Very Brahmsian - would be nice to hear some of his chamber works of which there are many.
Definitely not brahmsian. Brahms wouldn't compose something so competent.
@@DeeCeeHaich Roasted!