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This is the eagerly awaited LP release of an already highly successful SACD, ''Album of the Week'' on Classic FM, praised by BBC Music for its ''zest and freshness'', by The Guardian for its ''warmth and intensity'', and by Gramophone for its ''combustible power, enormous physical impact and technical accomplishment''. For its very first album on Chandos, the National Youth Orchestra of Grea tBritain devotes its characteristic energy and musical mastery to an explosive programme that transcends daily life and eathly experience. It is helped by the enthusiastic, encouraging, and experienced baton of Edward Gardner as well as by teh sumptuous yet detailed acoustic of Symphony Hall, Birmingham, all fully revealed in this recording. Their
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performance of Strauss's Also sprach Zarathustra and Holst's The planets is already a point of reference in the UK after the immensely successful Prom concert that preceded the recording. The concert's five-star review in The Daily Telegraph praised in particular the orchestra's ''great attack and complete absence of anything routine'', while The Guardian emphasized the great performance of the orchestra in this ''graceful and evocative programme'', especially the ''depth and richness of sound that belied their youth''. Read less
Works on This Recording
1.
Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30 by Richard Strauss
Conductor:
Edward Gardner
Orchestra/Ensemble:
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
Period: Romantic
Written: 1895-1896; Germany
2.
The Planets, Op. 32/H 125 by Gustav Holst
Conductor:
Edward Gardner
Orchestra/Ensemble:
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain,
City of Birmingham Symphony Youth Chorus
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1914-1916; England
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