Alan Rawsthorne - Rawsthorne: Practical Cats, Madame Chrysanthème & Street Corner (2021)

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Artist: Alan Rawsthorne
Title: Rawsthorne: Practical Cats, Madame Chrysanthème & Street Corner
Year Of Release: 2021
Label: Warner Classics
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 38:04
Total Size: 176 MB
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

01. Practical Cats: Overture
02. Practical Cats: The Naming of Cats
03. Practical Cats: The Old Gumbie Cat
04. Practical Cats: Gus, the Theatre Cat
05. Practical Cats: Bustopher Jones, the Cat About Town
06. Practical Cats: Old Deuteronomy
07. Practical Cats: The Song of the Jellicles
08. Street Corner
09. Suite from Madame Chrysanthème: I. Procession with Lanterns
10. Suite from Madame Chrysanthème: II. Sword Dance
11. Suite from Madame Chrysanthème: III. Hornpipe
12. Suite from Madame Chrysanthème: IV. Les mousmés

July 24th marks fifty years since the passing of the British composer Alan Rawsthorne. Though he has now fallen somehow into neglect, Rawsthorne was a prominent figure of English music after the War and his inventive music and talent as an orchestrator bear comparison to his contemporaries Walton and Britten.

Here is an album featuring the debut recording of Practical Cats (a very amusing set of poems of T.S. Eliot set to music and narrated by Oscar-winning actor Robert Donat), the overture Street Corner and the suite from Rawsthorne’s ballet Madame Chrysanthème, after Pierre Loti’s novel.

Alan Rawsthorne - Rawsthorne.rar - 176.2 MB