Around the turn of the century, the music of Sir Charles Villiers Stanford was all but forgotten except for a few works. However, his reputation seems to be on the rise, which is all to the good for audiences: if you accept his music for what it is -- a pure representation of Victorian and Edwardian optimism -- it is stirring and often delightful. The present release, from the Ulster Orchestra under the indefatigable Howard Shelley, contains quite a miscellany of pieces, but its commercial success shows the new appetite for ...
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Around the turn of the century, the music of Sir Charles Villiers Stanford was all but forgotten except for a few works. However, his reputation seems to be on the rise, which is all to the good for audiences: if you accept his music for what it is -- a pure representation of Victorian and Edwardian optimism -- it is stirring and often delightful. The present release, from the Ulster Orchestra under the indefatigable Howard Shelley, contains quite a miscellany of pieces, but its commercial success shows the new appetite for Stanford's music. These works aren't uniformly good; the opening Overture in the Style of a Tragedy, Op. 90, resembles Brahms' Tragic Overture but adds little to it. Persist and sample Verdun: Solemn March and Heroic Epilogue, Op. 151, Stanford's own orchestration of one of his organ works. You might find its uplifting tone a bit at odds with its grim subject, but it's likely that the tunes will stick in your head, and that has to count for something. The same is true of A Welcome...
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