Ronald Corp brings commitment to this music, lavishing on it the kind of sympathetic attention required to make it work. No cold, routine accounts ... Chanson Plaintive' from Suite Fantastique smile[s] gently under the light, well-balanced touch [it is] afforded. Individual performers in An Arabian Night and ... Holiday Sketches revel in the lyrical warmth of Fould's writing ... In short, top marks all around ...
Barry Brenesal, Fanfare, March/April 2011
Keltic Overture op.28 (1930): Lento eroico Moderato deciso Lento assai Allegro brioso Presto**
Keltic Suite op.29 (1911)
i. The Clans (Allegro molto brioso Poco tranquillo Pesante)
ii. A Lament (Lento eroico) KW
iii. The Call (Allegro giocoso (quasi Allegretto))
Sicilian Aubade (1927): Allegretto* CF
Isles of Greece op.48 no.2 (Impressions of time and place' no.2) (1927): Lento non trattenuto*
Holiday Sketches op.16 (1908)*
i. Festival in Nuremberg (Allegro giocoso)
ii. Romany from Bohemia (Quasi presto e focoso Allegretto piacevole) CF
iii. Evening in the Odenwald (Lento calmo assai) KW
iv. Bells at Coblentz (Moderato pesante Allegro)
An Arabian Night (1936-37)* CF KW
Suite Fantastique op.72 (from the music to a French Pierrot play) (1924)*
i. Pierrette and Pierrot (Not too fast)
ii. Chanson Plaintive (Merry but tenderly)
iii. The Wayside Cross (Rather slow (Very tranquil)) CF RE
iv. Carnival Procession (March tempo Very animated)
KW Katharine Wood (cello solo)
CF Cynthia Fleming (violin solo)
RE Roderick Elms (organ)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Ronald Corp (conductor)
* World premiere recordings
** First CD recording
Recorded at The Colosseum, Town Hall, Watford, 8-10 March 2010
CDLX 7252