Around 1990 the British composer York Bowen was so thoroughly forgotten that libraries were deaccessioning his scores, but the energetic efforts of a York Bowen Society have succeeded in reviving his conservative but distinctive music, and here he is, championed by a major British conductor and orchestra. Bowen's work remained thoroughly defined by Romantic idioms, even into the 1950s. He was influenced by the Russian school from Glazunov to Rachmaninov, and certainly by the dean of British symphonists, Edward Elgar, but ...
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Around 1990 the British composer York Bowen was so thoroughly forgotten that libraries were deaccessioning his scores, but the energetic efforts of a York Bowen Society have succeeded in reviving his conservative but distinctive music, and here he is, championed by a major British conductor and orchestra. Bowen's work remained thoroughly defined by Romantic idioms, even into the 1950s. He was influenced by the Russian school from Glazunov to Rachmaninov, and certainly by the dean of British symphonists, Edward Elgar, but there's a lightness in his music, with elegantly transparent orchestral textures, that's bound to be appealing to those who associate the Edwardian period with deadly pomposity. There's not a bit of it in these two symphonies. The album does not put its best foot forward with the Symphony No. 1 in G major, Op. 4, a work that did not even receive its premiere until 2010. This was a student work, composed when Bowen was an 18-year-old student at the Royal Academy of Music. It is formally...
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