Composer: Alexander Campbell Mackenzie
Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Martyn Brabbins
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Hyperion
Release: 1995
Size: 329 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. The Cricket on the Hearth, Op 62
Twelfth Night, Op. 40
02. Part 1. Act II Scene 5. By my life, this is my lady’s hand!
03. Part 2. Act II Scene 5. Why, thou hast put him in such a dream
04. Part 3. Act II Scene 3. Shall we rouse the night-owl in a catch?
05. Part 4. Act I Scene 1. O, she that hath a heart of that fine frame
06. Part 5. Act IV Scene 2. Fool, there was never man so notoriously abus’d
07. Part 6. Act V Scene 1. I’ll be reveng’d on the whole pack of you
08. Benedictus, Op. 37 No. 3
Burns ‘Second Scotch Rhapsody’, Op 24
09. I. Scots! Wha hae wi’ Wallace bled
10. II. She’s faire and fause
11. III. I coft a stane o’ haslock woo’
Coriolanus, Op 61
12. I. Prelude: Allegro moderato e marcato
13. II. Marche funèbre: Andante
14. III. Entr’acte – Voces populi: Allegro moderato, molto marcato
This recording of wonderfully theatrical orchestral music by Scottish composer Sir Alexander Mackenzie (1847–1945) revived an unfairly neglected composer’s profile when first issued in 1995. The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Martyn Brabbins are on top form in these colourful showpieces, from the tuneful good cheer of The Cricket on the Hearth overture and the soaringly lovely Benedictus, to the characterful incidental music for two Shakespeare plays, Twelfth Night and Coriolanus, as well as the Burns-inspired Second Scottish Rhapsody. This reissue on Helios is certain to introduce a new audience to Mackenzie’s irresistibly tuneful sound world.