This sonata, which appeared in print and were well regarded during the composer's lifetime, show him to be a minor master and an eloquent advocate for the eclectic expressive style then current in Ber...
Inspired by the changes the world has made after three years of a pandemic, this piece has the character of a prayer for our civilization to return out of darkness into the light. It seeks to remember...
A refreshingly intimate setting of the Preces and Responses in easy SATB: a welcome addition to the Evensong repertoire. Emma writes "I approached the text as prayer, considering not only the words th...
Cast in two parts, this cycle of seven songs represents a kind of musical portrait of an American poet - much admired by Robert Frost - whose reputation as a master of verse, and of the sonnet in part...
The ten motets (Concerti sacri) for solo voice, violins and continuo making up his Op. 3 (1703) are among his most attractive compositions, standing on the borderline between seventeenth-century bel c...
Mozart’s final three symphonies were composed, according to Mozart’s autograph Verzeichnüß, in the space of a few weeks, from late June to early August 1788. During that year the 11-year-old Hummel wa...
Stanley Sadie’s opinion, expressed in 1963, that the two of the twelve trio sonatas by Frederick Ernest Fisher(1711/12-1760), divided equally between Op. 1 (c.1751) and Op. 2 (c.1761), were ‘among the...
Ordinary violin sonatas formed the backbone of the series of ten collections that the Italian violinist Michel Mascitti (1663/4-1760), born in southern Italy but permanently resident in Paris from 170...
In 1772 John Addison brought out in Edinburgh a volume containing six duets in the form of three- or four-movement sonatas for two unaccompanied violins, his only works to survive. Such duets were hig...
Written by Tartini as a young man, this concerto offers the soloist rewarding opportunities to dazzle. In the initial Allegro, polyphonic writing alternates with virtuouso sections full of runs and do...
Prepared from all four known sources, this concerto from Tartini's first compositional period emerges as a masterpiece.
Bayo's way is really a miniature tuba concerto in one movement. The composer wanted the soloist to be the provider of pulse, a protagonist, a melodist and a magician. With this in mind, I set out to u...
The title and its vast implications attracted me because it agreed with my intuition, pointing me towards music expressing extreme emotional states. I felt, when writing for the piano, it was essentia...
The Anhang of Köchel's catalogue is full of pieces that for more than a century after his death were thought to be his work; the Müller sonata, a very effective piece on both fortepiano and clavichord...
Double Act has been commissioned by The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic for Ensemble 10:10 to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the first concert of the ensemble. Funds towards the commission have been...
These three quintets from Mozart's Italian contemporary are a joy to play and delightful listening.
The second volume of the complete keyboard music from the reclusive Carl Fasch contains two unpublished sonatas (one unusually in the key of B flat minor) and his considerable output of 'character pie...
The third and final volume of keyboard music from the reclusive Carl Fasch contains his four sets of extended keyboard variations, including some impressive displays of virtuosity, and a variety of sh...
The title derives from the French idiom se méfier de l'eau qui dort ('be wary of the water which sleeps'), meaning: be careful, because things are seldom as they appear. The performers should embrace...
Active in Gloucester and Birmingham during the mid-18th century, Barnabas Gunn was a composer and performer of sacred and secular music. His violin sonatas of 1745, here published for the first time i...
The I Ching provides a symmetrical structural base, while Rimbaud's poem 'Barbarian', with its highly emotional imagery, evokes the spatial range and temporal pace of The Clash of Icicles against the...
This anthology celebrates the life and work of Mabel Dolmetsch (1874-1963) on the fiftieth anniversary of her death. It brings together timeless melodies such as Belle qui tiens ma vie and Heartsease,...
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A prayer addressed to Our Lady of Consolation, Memorare evokes images of flight and our basic human need for escape and protection. The subtle colours of Timothy Raymond's musical language and his fin...
The Zhuangzi, a 2000-year-old Daoist text by the Chinese philosopher 'Master Zhuang', is a large collection of anecdotes, allegories and fables, many of them picturesque and of great beauty. Verwandlu...
