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1PD25 Hamilton Harty
composer, conductor and arranger
Although now best known as a conductor, during his
lifetime Hamilton Harty enjoyed a fine reputation as
composer, arranger and accompanist. This disc
celebrates all four talents.
It contains recordings made between 1926 and 1934
with Sir Hamilton Harty conducting the Halle
Orchestra unless othewise shewn:
- Nymphs and Shepherds from Act VI The Libertine
(1692) (Purcell) [listen]
Dance Duet from Act I Hansel und Gretel (1893)
(Humperdinck) [listen]
Manchester School Children's Choir
- Water Music (1715-17) - 1 Allegro (Handel arr
Harty)[listen]
London Philharmonic Orchestra
- Irish Symphony - Scherzo (Harty) [listen]
- With the Wild Geese (Harty) [listen]
- The Corsair Overture (Berlioz) [listen]
- Royal Hunt and Storm from Les Troyens (Berlioz)
[listen]
- Hungarian Rhapsody No 4 (Liszt arr Doppler)
[listen]
- Flight of the Bumble Bee from Act III The Tsar
Saltan (1900) (Rimsky Korsakov) [listen]
- Kovanschchina - Prelude (1886) (Mussorgsky)
[listen]
"There is great musicianship here, even if the
price is sometimes a hectic scramble, as in the
superlative Berlioz performances. Wonderful to hear
Handel on such a grand scale, too, after a diet of
authenticity." Michael Tanner in BBC Muisc
Magazine May 2008
Robert Matthew-Walker
in February 2008 International Record Reivew
writes: This disc admirably transferred by
David Michell opens with one of the most famous
of all 78 rpm discs - Purcell's "Nymphs and
Shepherds"("the Libertine") with the Manchester
Schools Children's choir from 1929. After 80
years the freshness and excellence of the singing
and Harty's superbly right tempos give great
pleasure, the more so in this very fine and
almost silent transfer.
A very worthwhile tribute to a great
musician
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Rob Cowan in The Gramophone March 2008 writes
"75 minutes of consistent musical pleasure...vital
performances of two of Harty's own works With the
Wild Geese and the scherzo from the Irish
Symphony... we're given spontaneous sounding
Berlioz and one of the most thirlling performances of
Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody ever committed to
disc, the Fourth."
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