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Title: 30 Years Before Lloyd-Webber...There Was Rawsthorne
Review: Nearly 30 years before Andrew Lloydd Webber changed the face of feline poetry with his take on CATS, equally British composer Alan Rawsthorne took a handful of the same TS Eliot poems and fashioned PRACTICAL CATS, which he titled "an entertainment for orchestra and narrator."This is a delightful, fresh and absoultely worthwhile alternative to the familiar interpretation. Rawsthorne's setting of Old Deuteronomy alone is heartbreaking in it's elegaic approach.The other Rawsthorne orchestral and piano pieces are equally fine, but his setting of Eliot's poems are alone worth buying this excellently remastered CD.
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