For all you fans of Eugene Goossens, the English conductor best known for his '50s recordings of Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps and select works by Debussy and Ravel, this disc will be a treat and a delight. It opens with three recordings of works by Arnold Bax, a composer with whom Goossens was closely associated: a madly passionate Tintagel and a wonderfully evocative Mediterranean, both from 1928, with the New Symphony and a massive and magnificent Second Symphony from 1956 with the BBC Symphony. Even better, it ...
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For all you fans of Eugene Goossens, the English conductor best known for his '50s recordings of Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps and select works by Debussy and Ravel, this disc will be a treat and a delight. It opens with three recordings of works by Arnold Bax, a composer with whom Goossens was closely associated: a madly passionate Tintagel and a wonderfully evocative Mediterranean, both from 1928, with the New Symphony and a massive and magnificent Second Symphony from 1956 with the BBC Symphony. Even better, it continues with Australian composer John Antill's Corroboree recorded in 1950 with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. And, in some ways best of all, it concludes with Goossens' own Tam O'Shanter in a wildly exuberant performance recorded in 1922 with the Royal Albert Hall Orchestra. In every work, Goossens demonstrates a superior baton technique, a clear command of the orchestra, and an appealing way of blending form with color. His Bax is as Romantic as you could want, his Antill as exotic...
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