Bantock: Orchestral Music [Box Set] [Box set, Import]

Granville Bantock (Composer), Vernon Handley (Conductor), Susan Bickley (Performer), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Orchestra), Elizabeth Connell (Performer), Kim Begley (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Susan Bickley, Elizabeth Connell, Kim Begley
• Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
• Conductor: Vernon Handley
• Composer: Granville Bantock
• Audio CD (October 9, 2007)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 6
• Format: Box set, Import
• Note on Boxed Sets: During shipping, discs in boxed sets occasionally become dislodged without damage. Please examine and play these discs. If you are not completely satisfied, we'll refund or replace your purchase.
• Label: Hyperion UK
• ASIN: B000VR055C
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #150,891 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4.0 out of 5 stars The complete, strange, lovable world of Bantock, December 9, 2008

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J. F. Laurson (Washington, DC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bantock: Orchestral Music [Box Set] (Audio CD)

Granville Bantock wrote music that makes it possible to be a little embarrassed for liking it. Romantic, sweeping, emoting, eager - and sometimes a little silly, so caught up in how it wants to tell its stories (and apparently any grand, exotic story was good enough for Bantock to be inspired to write miniature-epics about), that the stories themselves (their particular flavor and characteristics) become jumbled in that romantic exterior. But then, who cares if this is not "great" music... it is fun music, and for the late-romantically inclined, at least some Bantock is a must. No one conducts it better than Handley (there isn't much competition, admittedly), and this Hyperion box of all the orchestral works is a very desirable semi-precious in the discography of English music. To utterly fulfill your Bantock-needs, add Chandos' recording of Omar Khayyám to that (also conducted by Handley), which made it onto my "A Few of My Favorite Things - 2007" list.