Avie is a label that serves as a clearinghouse for recording projects conducted on the "own dime" of prominent classical artists and ensembles. It is fortunate that Avie has connected with English organist Jane Parker-Smith, a very well-known personality in the U.K. owing to her television appearances, busy concert schedule, and radio broadcasts. ...
An artist as versatile, virtuosic, and adventurous as Stephen Hough is hard to pin down, and this varied sampler is unlikely to define him, though it gives a a good impression of his many interests and rather flexible approach to piano music. Yet there is a scattershot quality to this compilation that may bother casual listeners who are less ...
British horn virtuoso David Pyatt performs five little-known horn concertos by his countrymen and -women on this effort. The composers are of approximately the same generation, all born around the turn of the twentieth century, and four of the pieces (excluding Ruth Gipps' 1969 concerto) were written between 1942 and 1957, during the height of ...
The resurgence of the music of British composer York Bowen began in the mid-'90s with a single Hyperion disc featuring a selection of Bowen's short piano pieces plated by Stephen Hough. Several dozen genre solo piano pieces and chamber works later, here we have arrived at concerti; namely, York Bowen: Violin Concerto -- Piano Concerto No. 1. This ...
These concertos by English composers York Bowen and Cecil Forsyth give that oft-abused instrument, the viola, here played splendidly by Lawrence Power, a chance to grab the spotlight in the same rich Romantic vein as the violin in its most popular concertos. The first concerto here, by Bowen, is comparable to Sibelius' Violin Concerto in many ways ...
York Bowen was a British pianist/composer of the early and middle twentieth century -- a fairly uncommon combination in that time and place. The otherwise fine booklet notes make the claim that he was the first pianist to record Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4, which may well be true but is a startling enough claim to require specifics that are ...
York Bowen is one of those twentieth century composers whose music fell by the wayside because it seemed old-fashioned and out of step with contemporary works. The piano works on this disc -- the Sonata No. 6, the Preludes, Op. 102, and the Ręverie -- are rich, dramatic, virtuosic, generally tonal works that are descended from the works of such ...
Warmly lyrical and unreservedly romantic, the Viola Sonatas of Bax and Bowen were both closely associated for English viol virtuoso Lionel Tertis. But while Tertis' own magisterial performance of the Bax Sonata is still available on disc, this performance by violist Doris Lederer is nearly as well played and even more unreservedly romantic. And ...
This Hyperion two-disc set of York Bowen's viola works played by violist Lawrence Power is by far the most complete look at any aspect of the English composer's music. Of course, most of the music here was composed in the decade before the First World War, and thus presents a relatively limited view of his career. But since his music fell almost ...
As Romantic as they are virtuosic, the three works on this disc by English composer York Bowen are certainly worth at least one hearing by enthusiasts of Edwardian music. A prodigy as both a pianist and a composer, Bowen is represented here by three works written before he was 30: the Piano Concertos No. 2 ("Concertstücke") from 1905 and No. 3 ( ...
York Bowen and Franz Reizenstein aren't exactly household names among twentieth century British composers. Though Bowen wrote four symphonies, along with many other orchestral works, his reputation as it is rests largely on his many viola works, works primarily known among viola players. And though German-born Reizenstein quickly moved to England ...
Phantasy is a well assembled program of English music for the viola from the first half of the twentieth century. While the first reaction may be "oh, pastoralist music," what's here is more varied and interesting than that term implies. There are the smooth, lyrical lines for the viola and the meditative, restful passages, but more frequently ...
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