Alan Rawsthorne: A Portrait - Woodwind Concertos & Chamber Works
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Label: Prima Facie
Cat No: PFCD053
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 1st December 2017
Contents
Works
A Most Eloquent MusicBrother James's Air
Cello Sonata
Clarinet Concerto
Oboe Concerto
Oboe Quartet no.1
Studies on a theme by Bach
Artists
Linda Merrick (clarinet)Sylvia Harper (oboe)
Jake Rea (violin)
David Aspin (viola)
Joseph Spooner (cello)
David Owen Norris (piano)
John Turner (recorder)
Laura Robinson (recorder)
Roger Child (lute)
Jill Crowther (oboe)
Manchester Sinfonia
English Northern Philharmonia
Conductors
Richard HowarthAlan Cuckston
Works
A Most Eloquent MusicBrother James's Air
Cello Sonata
Clarinet Concerto
Oboe Concerto
Oboe Quartet no.1
Studies on a theme by Bach
Artists
Linda Merrick (clarinet)Sylvia Harper (oboe)
Jake Rea (violin)
David Aspin (viola)
Joseph Spooner (cello)
David Owen Norris (piano)
John Turner (recorder)
Laura Robinson (recorder)
Roger Child (lute)
Jill Crowther (oboe)
Manchester Sinfonia
English Northern Philharmonia
Conductors
Richard HowarthAlan Cuckston
About
Alan Rawsthorne (1905-1971) gained his first notable success at the London Festival of the International Society for Contemporary Music in 1936 with a performance of his Theme and Variations for Two Violins. A further success was registered at the Warsaw Festival of the same organization in 1939 with his Symphonic Studies. Following the war, in which he served in the Army, he devoted himself to composition and between then and his death was to produce several substantial works, making important contributions to the chamber music and solo piano repertoire.
The recordings of three of the works on this disc, the Quartet for oboe, violin, viola and cello (No.1), Studies on a Theme by Bach for string trio and the Concerto for Oboe and String Orchestra were included on a now deleted CD released by ASC in 2002. These are represented here alongside new recordings of further chamber music and the Concerto for Clarinet and String Orchestra.
In the case of the Clarinet Concerto, this album provided an opportunity to include not only the premiere recording of the published, original ending, but also the revised ending. The very attractive arrangement of 'Brother James's Air', also for cello and piano, is a premiere recording. 'A Most Eloquent Music', from the incidental music Rawsthorne composed for the 1961 Royal Shakespeare Company production of Hamlet, has also been included on a CD released by the RSC in commemoration of the four- hundredth anniversary of Shakespeare's death.
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