Release Date: 27 October 2023
Label: Naxos - Nxp / Naxos Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 747313447978
Genres: Classical Solo Instrumental
Composer/Series: Ivor Gurney
Description
Ivor Gurney's songs (Naxos 8.572151) have long earned him renown but his works for piano, composed over the period of a decade, are hardly known. The lyrically beautiful Five Preludes reflect influences as wide as Schumann and Scriabin but preserve Gurney's expressive freshness. The Sonatas Nos. 1 and 3 inhabit very different sound worlds from each other, and only one movement of Sonata No. 2 has survived, a deeply poignant elegy - all of which are heard here in world premiere recordings. His poem for piano, Autumn, offers further opportunity to discover this rarely heard music by a composer for whom the pursuit of beauty was of the utmost importance.
Dariia Lytvishko
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Marin Alsop
Alice Di Piazza; Basel Sinfonietta; NDR Bigband; Titus Engel
Anna Alas i Jove; Miquel Villalba
David Childs; Black Dyke Band; Nicholas Childs
Yaqi Yang; Margarita Parsamyan; Robynne Redmon; Minghao Liu; Frank Ragsdale; Kim Josephson; Kevin S
Vilmos Csikos; Olivier Lechardeur; Manon Lamaison
Tomas Cotik; Martingale Ensemble; Ken Selden
Raaf Hekkema
Zlata Chochieva
Tyler Hay
Tomoko Mayeda
Stephen Farr (organ)
Sophia Weidemann; Tinka Kleffner
Sofja Gulbadamova
Sofia Andreoli
