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Dyson: The Canterbury Pilgrims, Etc / Hickox, London So

Release Date: 05/20/1997
Label: Chandos Catalog #: 9531 Spars Code: DDD
Composer: George Dyson
Performer: Yvonne Kenny, Robert Tear, Stephen Roberts
Conductor: Richard Hickox
Orchestra/Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus

Number of Discs: 2
Recorded in: Stereo
Length: 1 Hours 58 Mins.

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This set received the 1997 Gramophone award for "Best Engineering" and was nominated for the 1998 Grammy Award for "Best Choral Performance." When English composer George Dyson received his knighthood, it was for teaching rather than composing. One of the architects of the modern system of music education in England, Dyson was closely associated with Winchester College, where he served as music director. He did not vigorously pursue a composing career until he was in his mid-forties, then produced a body of work in a conservative, almost Victorian style that gathered bits of modern harmony along the way. Dyson's magnum opus 'The Canterbury Pilgrims' was written in 1930 while he was still at Winchester. It is a setting of the General Prologue to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, in which we meet the band of pilgrims who are embarking on the road from London to Canterbury. Dyson follows Chaucer's scheme, with a series of portraits framed by a Prologue and Envoi, and ends with a brilliant coup de theatre, as the Knight begins the first tale while moving slowly offstage, fading out at the Envoi's close. This is the first recording of a work which has suffered neglect for half a century and is wonderfully revived here in yet another triumph for Richard Hickox and Chandos.


Works on This Recording			Back to Top

1.	The Canterbury Pilgrims by George Dyson
	Performer: Yvonne Kenny (Soprano), Robert Tear (Tenor), Stephen Roberts (Baritone) Conductor: Richard Hickox Orchestra/Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus Period: 20th Century Written: 1931; England	Date of Recording: 1996 Venue: Blackheath Concert Hall, London, England Length: 90 Minutes 56 Secs. Language: English


2.	At the Tabard Inn by George Dyson
	Conductor: Richard Hickox Orchestra/Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra Period: 20th Century Written: 1943; England	Date of Recording: 1996 Venue: Blackheath Concert Hall, London, England Length: 11 Minutes 41 Secs.


3.	In Honour of the City by George Dyson
	Conductor: Richard Hickox Orchestra/Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus Period: 20th Century Written: 1928; England	Date of Recording: 1996 Venue: Blackheath Concert Hall, London, England Length: 15 Minutes 8 Secs. Language: English


Sound Samples				Back to Top

At the Tabard Inn
The Canterbury Pilgrims I. Prologue -
The Canterbury Pilgrims I. Prologue [figure 2]
The Canterbury Pilgrims II. The Knight
The Canterbury Pilgrims III. The Squire
The Canterbury Pilgrims IV. The Nun
The Canterbury Pilgrims V. The Monk
The Canterbury Pilgrims VI. The Clerk of Oxenford
The Canterbury Pilgrims VII. The Haberdasher and his Fraternity. The Merchant
The Canterbury Pilgrims VIII. The Sergeant of the Law. The Franklin
The Canterbury Pilgrims IX. The Shipman
The Canterbury Pilgrims X. The Doctor of Physic
The Canterbury Pilgrims XI. The Wife of Bath
The Canterbury Pilgrims XII. The Poor Parson of a Town
The Canterbury Pilgrims XIII. L'envoi
In Honour of the City

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