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Sea Sketches.(Sound Recording Review)
Walters, Walton, Williams, and Warlock. Roy Goodman, Manitoba Chamber Orchestra. CBC Records SMCD 5227.
This album of English string music is well titled, as it is the Sea Sketches by Grace Williams that are among the most memorable tunes on the disc.Ms. Williams (1906-1977), best known as the first female Welsh composer of distinction, created in the Sea Sketches a series of five descriptive movements that may remind some listeners of Debussy's La Mer, if not in actual substance at least in mood. The Sea Sketches are made up of individual tone poems labeled "High Wind," "Sailing Song," "Channel Sirens," "Breakers," and "Calm Sea in Summer," each of them highly evocative. My favorite is "Channel Sirens," in which the sounds of the sea nymphs can be heard singing in the instruments. It's all quite charming.
Not that the other works on the disc are in any way negligible, but like any collection of similar material, in this case short string pieces in the English pastoral mode, things can begin sounding alike after a few minutes. Anyway, the other compositions include ...
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