Hyperion has reissued John McCabe's 1994 recording of Herbert Howells' clavichord music under its Helios series. While other twentieth century composers were re-discovering the harpsichord, Howells instead found inspiration in another keyboard instrument. His love for early English music and the instruments of two modern clavichord makers led to ...
For recordings of the chamber music of John Ireland, they don't come any better than this one. With an all-star lineup of British musicians, this recording joins performances of Ireland's passionate Violin Sonata in D minor from 1909, his towering Piano Trio in E from 1917, his powerful Cello Sonata in G minor from 1923, and as a charming coda, a ...
Erik Satie is a composer whose star is on the rise. In 1980, when these recordings by pianist John McCabe were first released, he was, apart from the inscrutable Gymnopédie No. 1 and a few other works, mostly a footnote to the Debussy chapter in the history books. Since then it has gradually emerged that "The Velvet Gentleman" (the name came from ...
Charles Ives: Great American Pioneer? Of course. Ives discovered new tonalities and modalities years before any other composer. Great American Innovator? Definitely. Ives forged many of the techniques of twentieth century composition decades before any other composer. Great American Composer? That's debatable. In most recordings, Ives winds up ...
If you are looking for one and only one disc of the orchestral music of English modernist E.J. Moeran, get Adrian Boult's recording of his one and only symphony -- a powerful four-movement work nearly in the same league as the symphonies of Vaughan Williams, Walton, and Tippet. If you are looking for a second disc of Moeran's orchestral music, get ...
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