Composer: Henry Cotter Nixon
Performer: Ana Török, Ferenc Nagy
Orchestra: Kodály Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Paul Mann
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0374
Release: 2020
Size: 613 MB
Recovery: +3%
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Aslauga
01. Overture
02. Fantasia No. 2 (Arr. P. Mann for Violin & Orchestra)
03. Concert Overture No. 1 “Titania”
04. Gavotte in E-Flat Major
The Gay Typewriters (Excerpts)
05. Prelude
06. Ballet Music
07. Coronation March
The English composer-conductor Henry Cotter Nixon (1842–1907) had entirely disappeared from music history until this series – presenting all his surviving orchestral music in its first-ever recordings – revealed him to have been one of the most accomplished English composers of his generation, with a style that takes in elements of Mendelssohn, Schumann, Weber, Brahms and Sullivan. This third and final volume mixes music for the concert hall and the stage and adds the Coronation March for Edward VII that turned out to be Nixon’s last composition. Most of the pieces here were left incomplete, but thanks to Paul Mann’s orchestrations they now confirm Nixon’s position as one of the superior tunesmiths of Victorian England.