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Bantock, Scott & Sacheverell Coke: VIOLIN & VIOLA SONATAS |
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Rupert Marshall-Luck (vn & va) | Matthew Rickard (pf) |
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Released 15 November 2013 | EAN 5 060263 500162 |
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EMR CD011 features three vigorous, dramatic and colourful works by three unique, charismatic and colourful composers. Cyril Scott’s Viola Sonata of 1953 is a highly focused work, meticulously crafted and tautly unified; and the fluency, inventiveness and iridescence of the writing makes the Sonata compelling listening. An equal magnetism surrounds Granville Bantock’s Sonata no.3 in C major for Violin and Piano: composed at the end of its composer’s life, in 1946, it eschews the complex grandiloquence of some of his earlier works in favour of a conciseness of form and simplicity of structure, yet Bantock’s hallmarks of a richly appointed texture and sweeping melodic lines are still present.
Roger Sacheverell Coke’s Violin Sonata in D minor is perhaps the most emotionally involved of the three offerings on the disc. Composed during the Second World War, its first two movements
alternate soaring melodic lines of searing beauty with dark, introverted musings; in the grim Scherzo, figures loom like nightmarish megoliths; and the fourth movement’s anguished outpourings are an elegy for a generation.
Rupert Marshall-Luck and Matthew Rickard have made several critically acclaimed recordings for EM Records and this disc is full of their signature commitment and energy.
TRACK LISTING AND AUDIO EXTRACTS
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Granville Bantock (1868–1946)
SONATA NO.3 IN C MAJOR FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO (1946) |
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I. Allegro con spirito |
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II. ‘THE DRYAD’: Lento sostenuto |
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III. FINALE: Allegro con moto – Largamente molto lento |
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Cyril Scott (1879–1970)
SONATA FOR VIOLA AND PIANO (1953)
(World Première recording) |
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I. Allegretto – Grave e molto espressivo – Con moto – Tempo I |
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II. HUMORESQUE: Allegro – Poco sostenuto e poco maestoso –
Tempo primo |
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III. Adagio – Energico – Poco meno mosso – Maestoso –
Molto maestoso |
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Roger Sacheverell Coke (1912–1972)
SONATA NO.1 IN D MINOR FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO (1940–42)
(World Première recording) |
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I. Poco lento – Allegro ritmico |
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II. Andante sostenuto – Poco più mosso, con moto, agitato –
Tempo I |
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III. SCHERZO: Allegro scherzando – TRIO: Lento assai – Tempo I |
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IV. FINALE, QUASI UNA FANTASIA: Lento assai – EPILOGUE: Maestoso |
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