Boughton - Of Delights and Passions: Chamber Music
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Label: EM Records
Cat No: EMRCD081
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 21st April 2023
Contents
Works
Cello SonataCeltic Prelude: The Land of Heart's Desire
Piano Trio
Violin Sonata in D major
Winter Sun
Artists
English Piano TrioWorks
Cello SonataCeltic Prelude: The Land of Heart's Desire
Piano Trio
Violin Sonata in D major
Winter Sun
Artists
English Piano TrioAbout
Often regarded as the composer who tried to create Britain's first "English Bayreuth", Boughton is best remembered today for his highly successful Festivals at Glastonbury (1914-1926) and for his record-breaking Celtic opera The Immortal Hour. At the height of his career, Boughton became hugely popular surpassing even his rivals and friends Holst and Vaughan Williams.
Apart from his two successful early string quartets and his oboe works, composed for his talented daughter Joyance, Rutland Boughton is not generally recognised for his chamber music of which there are over 20 individual pieces. Of these, it is perhaps the Sonata in D major for Violin and Piano of 1921 - now recorded here for the first time by English Piano Trio members, Jane Faukner and Timothy Ravenscroft - that has been heard in public in recent times.
The recording also includes Boughton's unknown Sonata for 'Cello and Pianoforte which was completed in 1948, and his Trio for Violin, 'Cello and Piano (1948) that has remained unperformed for over 70 years until it was included in a lunchtime recital given by the English Piano Trio at the composer's birthplace, Aylesbury, in 2019. It is evident the English Piano Trio enjoy delivering this unique and wonderful piece.
The disc is completed by the recording of two short delightful published works; a sketch for violin and piano - Winter Sun - which Boughton wrote in 1932, and an earlier piano trio, Celtic Prelude, completed in 1917 when the composer was in military service.
The recording was instigated and sponsored by the composer's grandson, Ian Rutland Boughton, who inspired the English Piano Trio to bring this project to fruition.
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