Potter: Complete Symphonies, Vol. 2

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Label
CPO
Release Date
January 3, 2025
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Cipriani Potter
    • PERFORMER
      BBC National Orchestra of Wales
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 03, 2025
    • UPC
      0761203550029
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      555500-2
    • LABEL
      CPO
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Allegro con fuoco

      Composer: Cipriani Potter

      Ensemble: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

      Conductor: Howard Griffiths

    2. II. Andante con moto

      Composer: Cipriani Potter

      Ensemble: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

      Conductor: Howard Griffiths

    3. III. Scherzo, ben marcato

      Composer: Cipriani Potter

      Ensemble: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

      Conductor: Howard Griffiths

    4. IV. Finale: Allegro con fuoco, ma non troppo presto

      Composer: Cipriani Potter

      Ensemble: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

      Conductor: Howard Griffiths

    5. Concertante for Violin, Cello, Double Bass and Piano

      Composer: Cipriani Potter

      Ensemble: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

      Performer: Jonian Ilias Kadesha, Tim Posner, Philip Nelson, Mishka Rushdie Momen

      Conductor: Howard Griffiths

    6. I. Allegro

      Composer: Cipriani Potter

      Ensemble: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

      Conductor: Howard Griffiths

    7. II. Andante

      Composer: Cipriani Potter

      Ensemble: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

      Conductor: Howard Griffiths

    8. III. Vivace

      Composer: Cipriani Potter

      Ensemble: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

      Conductor: Howard Griffiths

    9. The Tempest: Overture

      Composer: Cipriani Potter

      Ensemble: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

      Conductor: Howard Griffiths


Unlike his namesake Harry, Cypriani Potter did not learn his craft at Hogwarts, but with renowned British composers and then put the finishing touches to his music in Vienna - above all with Ludwig van Beethoven, who undoubtedly taught him some particularly effective tricks. In any case, there is an unmistakable magic in his works: at times it is delightful melodies, at others dramatic energy build-ups or rhythmically urgent episodes that give his music such an appeal that it is worth recording all of his surviving symphonies (nine, after all) and garnishing them with a few smaller pieces - in the present program, for example, with the Overture to Shakespeare's Tempest and with the original Concertante for piano and four strings on the popular theme La Follia, which Potter animates to a veritable outburst of temperament.