Chadwick: Orchestral Works

2 CDs for the price of 1! These discs were previously issued separately as Reference Recordings RR-64CD and RR-74CD These celebrated HDCD recordings were greeted with critical raves when first released. American Romantic George Chadwick wrote music full of orchestral color and wide dynamic range. The Symphonic Sketches have long been an audiophile favorite, but have been sorely in need of a new, top-quality recording. Aphrodite, Tam O‘Shanter, Melpomene and the other works have equally appealing qualities. R E V I E W S "This is warmly recommended for fine rare repertoire and typically sprung, lively sound with power and subtlety aplenty." - MusicWeb International "The Suite symphonique (1909) sounds surprisingly like Elgar, especially in this key, since both composers drew on similar continental sources... Aphrodite (1912) is a full-blown, half-hour symphonic poem based on a classical Greek statue taken to Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. Chadwick imagined the events which must