MACDOWELL: Suites Nos. 1 and 2 / Hamlet and Ophelia - Ulster Orchestra

A contemporary of Mahler, pupil of Raff and protégé of Liszt, the American-born MacDowell received his main musical education in France and Germany during the later nineteenth century. MacDowell was a Romantic by temperament, and his musical imagination was largely shaped by nature, literature, mythology and other extra musical stimuli. The music presented here is typical of these influences providing a highly evocative and atmospheric sound world full of melodic freshness and attractively colourful scoring.

MacDowell, Edward

 Suite No. 1, Op. 42

 Suite No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 48, "Indian"

 Hamlet and Ophelia, Op. 22