5060263500193

A Forgotten English Romantic

Duncan Honeybourne

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Format: CD

Cat No: EMRCD022

Release Date:  01 May 2014

Label:  Em Records

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  5060263500193

Genres:  Classical  Romantic  

  • Description

    Duncan Honeybourne's new disc for EM Records explores the piano music of a forgotten romantic composer-pianist, the Englishman Greville Cooke. This larger-than-life character wrote for his instrument with telling individuality, melting tenderness and searing intensity. Cooke combined a professorship in composition at the Royal Academy of Music with parallel careers as a poet and Anglican priest, rising to become a canon of Peterborough Cathedral and a regular broadcaster in both musical and spiritual roles. EMR CD022 presents Cooke's superbly evocative, richly passionate music – bearing wonderful titles such as 'Cormorant Crag', 'Whispering Willows', 'Sundown' and 'Reef's End' – with miniatures by Holst and Vaughan Williams to create a disc of English romantic piano music of vibrant colour and wide-ranging expressive power.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Gothic Prelude
      • 2. High Marley Rest
      • 3. Whispering Willows
      • 4. Nocturne
      • 5. In the Cathedral
      • 6. Tree-top Lullaby
      • 7. So Fair a Field
      • 8. Skip-step
      • 9. Song Prelude
      • 10. Cormorant Crag
      • 11. Good Morning, Mr Harridge
      • 12. Oddment (Superior Quality)
      • 13. Throw-out (Greatly Reduced)
      • 14. Genuine Reproduction (Excellent Value)
      • 15. Cheap Line (Absolutely Not to Be Repeated)
      • 16. Going for a Song (Yours for a Tenor, Fiver, 3d)
      • 17. Remnant (Only One Left)
      • 18. Valse Lente
      • 19. Nocturne
      • 20. Canon
      • 21. Two-part Invention in F Major
      • 22. Two-part Invention in E Flat Major
      • 23. Two-part Invention in G Major
      • 24. Haldon Hills (Devon)
      • 25. Meadowsweet
      • 26. A Sunny Morning
      • 27. In the Park (Afternoon)
      • 28. An Evening Lullaby
      • 29. Sundown
      • 30. Reef's End