| Label: Classics Labels
Catalog: CC0023
Format: CD Victoria Soames Samek, clarinet; Laurence Perkins, bassoon; John Flinders, pianoWorld Premiere Recordings of: Charles Harford Lloyd - bassoon and piano / Herbert Howells - A Near Minuet and Minuet - Grace for a Fresh Egg / William Yeates Hurlstone - Trio in G Minor for clarinet, bassoon and piano Clarinet Classics is proud to present an important and fascinating collection of chamber works from the turn of the century.
Featured on this disc are the World Premiere Recordings of :
o Charles Harford Lloyd - Trio for clarinet, bassoon and piano
o Herbert Howells - A Near Minuet and Minuet - Grace for a Fresh Egg
o William Yeates Hurlstone - Trio in G Minor for clarinet, bassoon and piano
Also included on the disc are the more familiar Four Characteristic Pieces for clarinet and piano by Hurlstone. The career of Hurlstone, who was plagued by ill-health, was cut short when he died at the early age of 30. As his music is being published and re-discovered, it is becoming clear that Hurlstone, had he lived, would have become one of the major English composers of this century.
Although relatively unfamiliar, the three Premiere Recordings are of works which thoroughly deserve a place in the chamber repertoire and on the CD market. By turns tuneful and charming, exciting and passionate, this music comes from a time when English music was re-discovering itself after the relative quiet of the Victorian Era.
Press Quote
'This latest disc from an attractive label is a celebration of clarinet music written in the first half of the century by composers all happening to have a connection with the Royal College of Music. John Ireland's Fantasy Sonata, a suave, wistful single movement ...... beautifully played.'
The Sunday Times  Price: $19.98 |
