Release Date: 01 October 2015
Label: Em Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5060263500223
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Description
The Bridge Quartet's new release celebrates the rich variety of the Phantasy String Quartet, one of the forms most characteristic of the English Musical Renaissance of the early 20th century, and a genre re-invigorated by Walter Wilson Cobbett. The disc comprises six 'Cobbett' phantasies, based upon the single-movement (but tripartite) 17th-century Elizabethan viol 'Fantasia' model perfected by Henry Purcell, including three sparklingly carefree contributions from the very first competition in 1905 by William Hurlstone, Frank Bridge and Joseph Holbrooke. These are virtuoso scores from three confident young composers keen to impress with their knowledge and sometimes mischievously irreverent attitudes to 19th-century 'Romantic' idioms. The remaining three, by Gustav Holst, Herbert Howells and Eugene Goossens, date from ten years later, composed during the First World War. Holst's Phantasy on (Four) English Folk Songs is beautiful and nostalgic; Howells's prize-winning entry from 1918 is darkly tinted with an austere modality; and Goossens's contribution, dating from 1915, loosens the bonds of 19th-century tonality and challenges the listener with sonorities more redolent of the 20th century. Most of the works presented here are World Première recordings.
Tracklisting
Paul Guinery
Paul Guinery
BBC Concert Orchestra, David Hill, BBC Singers, Nadine Benjamin, Ben McAteer
Godwine Choir, Alex Davan Wetton, Edward Hughes & John Wright
Paul Guinery
Grant Doyle, John Kember, Brian Sibley
Jeremy Huw Williams, Timothy Kantor, Paula Fan
English Arts Chorale, English Arts Orchestra, Leslie Olive
Karolos
The Counterpoints
Narratio Quartet
Danbi Um; Juho Pohjonen
Engegard Quartet, NyNorsk Messingkvintett
Flute Alors
Louise Bessette
Jonas Batstrand, Jorn Fossheim
