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Somm Recordings pays tribute to the remarkable flourishing of British Violin Sonatas in the 20th century with a collection of music for violin and piano by six key figures of the modern chamber music renaissance in Britain.
From the middle of the century, and commissioned for Yehudi Menuhin, William Walton’s Violin Sonata is unique in the composer’s oeuvre with its almost constant sense of nervous uncertainty. Composed the same year (1948), Kenneth Leighton’s youthful First Violin Sonata is the product, as Robert Matthew-Walker comments in his authoritative booklet notes, of “a deep-thinking musician of whom everything he was to write, from his earliest compositions onwards, is genuinely felt and unaffectedly original”. William Alwyn’s beautifully proportioned Sonatina (1933) receives only its second appearance on recording here. Composed the following year, Alan Rawsthorne’s Pierrette: Valse Caprice is best remembered from its quotation in the composer’s soundtrack for the 1947 film Uncle Silas. The contrasted Elegy and Toccata from Lennox Berkeley’s 1951 Op.33 reveal a master craftsman in miniature, while three pieces by Gordon Jacob – Little Dancer (1959), Caprice (1969) and Elegy (1972) – all make their first appearances here. © Somm Recordings
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Violin Sonata (William Walton)
William Walton, Composer - Clare Howick, Artist, MainArtist - Simon Callaghan, Artist
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William Walton, Composer - Clare Howick, Artist, MainArtist - Simon Callaghan, Artist
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Violin Sonatina (William Alwyn)
William Alwyn, Composer - Clare Howick, Artist, MainArtist - Simon Callaghan, Artist
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William Alwyn, Composer - Clare Howick, Artist, MainArtist - Simon Callaghan, Artist
(C) 2020 SOMM Recordings (P) 2020 SOMM Recordings
William Alwyn, Composer - Clare Howick, Artist, MainArtist - Simon Callaghan, Artist
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Elegy for Violin & Piano (Gordon Jacob)
Gordon Jacob, Composer - Clare Howick, Artist, MainArtist - Simon Callaghan, Artist
(C) 2020 SOMM Recordings (P) 2020 SOMM Recordings
Caprice (Gordon Jacob)
Gordon Jacob, Composer - Clare Howick, Artist, MainArtist - Simon Callaghan, Artist
(C) 2020 SOMM Recordings (P) 2020 SOMM Recordings
Little Dancer (Gordon Jacob)
Gordon Jacob, Composer - Clare Howick, Artist, MainArtist - Simon Callaghan, Artist
(C) 2020 SOMM Recordings (P) 2020 SOMM Recordings
Violin Sonata No. 1, Op. 4 (Kenneth Leighton)
Kenneth Leighton, Composer - Clare Howick, Artist, MainArtist - Simon Callaghan, Artist
(C) 2020 SOMM Recordings (P) 2020 SOMM Recordings
Kenneth Leighton, Composer - Clare Howick, Artist, MainArtist - Simon Callaghan, Artist
(C) 2020 SOMM Recordings (P) 2020 SOMM Recordings
Kenneth Leighton, Composer - Clare Howick, Artist, MainArtist - Simon Callaghan, Artist
(C) 2020 SOMM Recordings (P) 2020 SOMM Recordings
Valse caprice "Pierette" (Alan Rawsthorne)
Alan Rawsthorne, Composer - Clare Howick, Artist, MainArtist - Simon Callaghan, Artist
(C) 2020 SOMM Recordings (P) 2020 SOMM Recordings
Elegy, Op. 33 No. 2a (Lennox Berkeley)
Lennox Berkeley, Composer - Clare Howick, Artist, MainArtist - Simon Callaghan, Artist
(C) 2020 SOMM Recordings (P) 2020 SOMM Recordings
Toccata, Op. 33 No. 3 (Version for Violin & Piano) (Lennox Berkeley)
Lennox Berkeley, Composer - Clare Howick, Artist, MainArtist - Simon Callaghan, Artist
(C) 2020 SOMM Recordings (P) 2020 SOMM Recordings
Album review
Somm Recordings pays tribute to the remarkable flourishing of British Violin Sonatas in the 20th century with a collection of music for violin and piano by six key figures of the modern chamber music renaissance in Britain.
From the middle of the century, and commissioned for Yehudi Menuhin, William Walton’s Violin Sonata is unique in the composer’s oeuvre with its almost constant sense of nervous uncertainty. Composed the same year (1948), Kenneth Leighton’s youthful First Violin Sonata is the product, as Robert Matthew-Walker comments in his authoritative booklet notes, of “a deep-thinking musician of whom everything he was to write, from his earliest compositions onwards, is genuinely felt and unaffectedly original”. William Alwyn’s beautifully proportioned Sonatina (1933) receives only its second appearance on recording here. Composed the following year, Alan Rawsthorne’s Pierrette: Valse Caprice is best remembered from its quotation in the composer’s soundtrack for the 1947 film Uncle Silas. The contrasted Elegy and Toccata from Lennox Berkeley’s 1951 Op.33 reveal a master craftsman in miniature, while three pieces by Gordon Jacob – Little Dancer (1959), Caprice (1969) and Elegy (1972) – all make their first appearances here. © Somm Recordings
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 14 track(s)
- Total length: 01:11:54
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Clare Howick Simon Callaghan
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: SOMM Recordings
- Genre: Classical Chamber Music
(C) 2020 SOMM Recordings (P) 2020 SOMM Recordings
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