Lawrence Power, Simon Crawford-Phillips - Arthur Benjamin: Violin Sonatina & Viola Sonata (2014) [Hi-Res]
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BAND/ARTIST: Lawrence Power, Simon Crawford-Phillips
- Title: Arthur Benjamin: Violin Sonatina & Viola Sonata
- Year Of Release: 2014
- Label: Hyperion
- Genre: Classical
- Quality: flac lossless (tracks) / flac 24bits - 96.0kHz +Booklet
- Total Time: 01:06:09
- Total Size: 289 mb / 1.13 gb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
01. Benjamin: Violin Sonatina: I. Tranquilly Flowing
02. Benjamin: Violin Sonatina: II. Scherzo di stile antico
03. Benjamin: Violin Sonatina: III. Rondo. Con moto ma non allegro
04. Benjamin: 3 Pieces for Violin and Piano: I. Arabesque (The Muted Pavane)
05. Benjamin: 3 Pieces for Violin and Piano: II. Carnavalesque. Tempo di valse
06. Benjamin: 3 Pieces for Violin and Piano: III. Humoresque. Non troppo allegro
07. Benjamin: A Tune and Variations for Little People
08. Benjamin: Le tombeau de Ravel "Valses-caprices"
09. Benjamin: Viola Sonata: I. Elegy. Adagio e mesto
10. Benjamin: Viola Sonata: II. Waltz. Quasi improvisatore –
11. Benjamin: Viola Sonata: III. Toccata. Allegro ma non troppo
12. Benjamin: From San Domingo
13. Benjamin: Jamaican Rumba (Arr. Primrose)
Lawrence Power is Britain’s greatest living viola player, the true successor to Lionel Tertis and William Primrose. Part of his mission is to perform and record music premiered by those masters of the previous century, including works by York Bowen, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Benjamin Dale, William Walton and, here, Arthur Benjamin.
Benjamin was one of the first Australian musicians to forge an international reputation. His creative output, which encompasses about eighty works altogether, manifests a great variety of idioms and genres. It includes a good number of light-music miniatures, many of them infused with a jazz or Afro-Caribbean flavour: the most famous of these is the Jamaican Rumba which concludes this album.
This album represents something of a departure for Lawrence Power’s recording career: he performs Benjamin’s Violin Sonatina on the violin. This ambitious, virtuosic and formidably accomplished work is not at all diminutive—perhaps the lack of a slow movement was felt to debar it from full sonata status.
Benjamin’s Viola Sonata is a wartime piece, with a first movement of dark foreboding. It manifests a spiritual affinity with the large-scale and often elegiac Symphony that Benjamin was about to begin composing, and it contains the bleakest and perhaps the most deeply felt music on the present album. It is an impressive, powerful and virtuosic work, with many technical challenges, all of which Lawrence scales with his usual astonishing prowess.
01. Benjamin: Violin Sonatina: I. Tranquilly Flowing
02. Benjamin: Violin Sonatina: II. Scherzo di stile antico
03. Benjamin: Violin Sonatina: III. Rondo. Con moto ma non allegro
04. Benjamin: 3 Pieces for Violin and Piano: I. Arabesque (The Muted Pavane)
05. Benjamin: 3 Pieces for Violin and Piano: II. Carnavalesque. Tempo di valse
06. Benjamin: 3 Pieces for Violin and Piano: III. Humoresque. Non troppo allegro
07. Benjamin: A Tune and Variations for Little People
08. Benjamin: Le tombeau de Ravel "Valses-caprices"
09. Benjamin: Viola Sonata: I. Elegy. Adagio e mesto
10. Benjamin: Viola Sonata: II. Waltz. Quasi improvisatore –
11. Benjamin: Viola Sonata: III. Toccata. Allegro ma non troppo
12. Benjamin: From San Domingo
13. Benjamin: Jamaican Rumba (Arr. Primrose)
Lawrence Power is Britain’s greatest living viola player, the true successor to Lionel Tertis and William Primrose. Part of his mission is to perform and record music premiered by those masters of the previous century, including works by York Bowen, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Benjamin Dale, William Walton and, here, Arthur Benjamin.
Benjamin was one of the first Australian musicians to forge an international reputation. His creative output, which encompasses about eighty works altogether, manifests a great variety of idioms and genres. It includes a good number of light-music miniatures, many of them infused with a jazz or Afro-Caribbean flavour: the most famous of these is the Jamaican Rumba which concludes this album.
This album represents something of a departure for Lawrence Power’s recording career: he performs Benjamin’s Violin Sonatina on the violin. This ambitious, virtuosic and formidably accomplished work is not at all diminutive—perhaps the lack of a slow movement was felt to debar it from full sonata status.
Benjamin’s Viola Sonata is a wartime piece, with a first movement of dark foreboding. It manifests a spiritual affinity with the large-scale and often elegiac Symphony that Benjamin was about to begin composing, and it contains the bleakest and perhaps the most deeply felt music on the present album. It is an impressive, powerful and virtuosic work, with many technical challenges, all of which Lawrence scales with his usual astonishing prowess.
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