Listen & tracks
9 works · 84:10
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1 Fanfare Traditional 1:41
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2 Aida Giuseppe Verdi Triumphal March 7:32
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3 Nabucco Giuseppe Verdi Hebrew Chorus 4:27
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4 Boris Godunov Modest Mussorgsky Coronation Scene 9:22
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5 Serenade to Music Ralph Vaughan Williams 13:33
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Coronation OdeSir Edward Elgar 2 movements8:23
- 6 Land of Hope and Glory 4:02
- 7 Land of Hope and Glory (encore) 4:21
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8 1812 Overture Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 14:47
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9 Speech by the Governor of Victoria Traditional 5:45
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10 Victoria Cantata (1880) Léon Caron 18:40
The programme was recorded live in the Great Hall on 31 March 1985 for Victoria’s 150th anniversary.
Beside familiar choral showpieces by Verdi, Mussorgsky, Vaughan Williams, Elgar and Tchaikovsky, the concert restores Léon Caron’s prize-winning Victoria Cantata, written for the Melbourne International Exhibition concert of 1 October 1880.
Artists
Richard Divall
conductor
Richard Divall (1945–2017) was an Australian conductor and musicologist whose work spanned opera, large-scale choral performance and the editing of early music.
Victorian College of the Arts Orchestra
orchestra
Sir Edward Elgar
composer
Edward Elgar’s music carries English romantic warmth into the concert hall: long-breathed melodies, rich harmony and tunes that lodge in the ear, from the intimate charm of Salut d’Amour to organ writing of near-symphonic scale.
Modest Mussorgsky
composer
Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881) was a Russian composer of the Romantic period, celebrated for a boldly national voice that stood apart from Western convention. His music turns repeatedly to Russian history, folklore and the vivid colour of everyday speech.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
composer
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) was a Russian composer of the Romantic era. His ballets, concertos and orchestral works remain among the most widely performed music in the classical repertoire.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
composer
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) was an English composer of nine symphonies, operas, ballets, and a large body of choral and vocal music. Drawing on Tudor polyphony and English folk-song, he helped free British music from its nineteenth-century German models.
Giuseppe Verdi
composer
Giuseppe Verdi wrote the operas that still define the Italian stage: Rigoletto, La traviata, Aida, Otello. His music turns private passion and public fate into melody audiences know by heart and never tire of hearing.
Léon Caron
composer
Digital booklet
Digital booklet Notes, texts and credits — read online or download the PDF Download the PDFPerformers
- Richard Divall · conductor · tracks 2–10
- Victorian College of the Arts Orchestra · orchestra · tracks 2–8 and 10
- Rosemary Boyle · soprano · tracks 5–7 and 10
- Suzanne Johnston · mezzo soprano · tracks 5–7 and 10
- Simon O'Loughlin · tenor · tracks 4–7 and 10
- Peter Cox · baritone · tracks 4–7 and 10
- Central Band of the Royal Australian Air Force · band · track 1
- Michael A. Butcher · conductor · track 1
Technical credits
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Producer
Trevor Wellaby
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Recording Engineer
Brendan O'Neill
Peter Thorp
Phil Brennan
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Mastering Engineer
Martin Wright
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Venue
Great Hall of the Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
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Credit
Melbourne Youth Music Council
Details
- List price
- $25.00 AUD
- Total playing time
- 84 minutes 10 seconds
- Release date
- 1985
- Categories
- Choral, Classical
- Musical work copyright
- © 1985 Move Records
- Sound recording copyright
- ℗ 1985 Move Records
- Catalogue
- MD 3011
- EAN
- 9314574301120
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