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An Irish Idyll

Duncan Honeybourne

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Format: CD

Cat No: EMRCD024

Release Date:  30 July 2014

Label:  Em Records

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  5060263500216

Genres:  Classical  Romantic  

  • Description

    Duncan Honeybourne's new disc for EM Records explores the piano music of a forgotten romantic composer-pianist, Archy Rosenthal. This larger-than-life character wrote for his instrument with telling individuality, melting tenderness and searing intensity. Dublin-born Rosenthal was a virtuoso pianist of international fame, a pupil of Leschetizky and Godowsky and a close friend of Grieg. The land of his birth never lost its enchantment for this immensely charismatic and imaginative man, and our new release complements Rosenthal's barnstorming Variations on 'Hush-a-bye Baby' and his reflective 'Irish Pastels' with beguiling Hibernian musings by Stanford and Bax. All the works by Rosenthal receive here their World Première recordings.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. The Sad Colleen
      • 2. A Slow Reel
      • 3. Irish Dawn
      • 4. Theme: Andante Tranquillo
      • 5. Variation I: L'istesso Tempo
      • 6. Variation II: Allegretto Amabile Ma Non Troppo
      • 7. Variation III: Quasi Fantasia À La Godowsky
      • 8. Variation IV: Nocturne
      • 9. Finale Alla Polacca: Vivo
      • 10. Ballade in G Minor, Op. 170
      • 11. A Dedication
      • 12. Valse Russe
      • 13. Pastorale
      • 14. Impromptu
      • 15. Maureen
      • 16. Mountain Mood
      • 17. Irish Jig
      • 18. Prelude On a Winter Afternoon
      • 19. Prelude of Seven Bars
      • 20. Con Moto
      • 21. Barcarolle
      • 22. Gavotte and Musette (Spring)
      • 23. Dream Waltz (Summer)
      • 24. Red and Gold (Autumn)
      • 25. The Lonely Shepherd (Winter)
      • 26. Nocturne in G Minor, Op. 148, No. 1
      • 27. Six Variations On an Old Nursery Rhyme: Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary
      • 28. Guilfoyle's Wood