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EM Records is delighted to announce its first triple-disc set: a celebration of the violin-and-piano works of one of Britain’s most important composers, C. Hubert H. Parry.
Parry is not popularly known as a composer of chamber music; yet his contributions to the genre span his entire career. Of particular historical-musical interest are his works for violin and piano, from the early ‘Freundschaftslieder’ – amongst the first works Parry completed in adult life – to the two Suites, published in 1907. These show a wide range of aspects of Parry’s multifaceted character: the generously-spirited young man, acknowledging his debt to Brahms and Schumann in the Sonata in D minor; the warm-hearted family man shown in the ‘Twelve Pieces for Violin and Piano’, which are dedicated to his wife and his two daughters; and the musical experimenter that is seen in the ‘Fantasie-Sonate in einem Satz’, in which Parry, inspired by the Piano Concerto of Xaver Scharwenka, combines four tautly-unified movements in a single, 14-minute work. The recording also features a number of intriguing and characterful miniatures which were discovered among the composer’s manuscripts in the Bodelian Library, Oxford.
The recording is dedicated to the memory of Parry’s great-granddaughter, The Hon. Laura Ponsonby, whose knowledge and enthusiasm were instrumental in bringing the project to fruition.
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| C. Hubert H. Parry (1848–1918) SUITE NO.2 IN F (World Première recording) |
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| 1. | PRELUDE. Lento appassionato |
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| 2. | INTERMEZZO. Allegretto |
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| 3. | CAPRICCIOSO. Vivace |
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| 4. | RETROSPECTIVE. Lento espressivo – |
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| 5. | FINALE. Allegro grazioso |
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| ‘TWELVE SHORT PIECES’ FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO: SET I | |||
| 6. | IDYLL. Allegretto |
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| 7. | ROMANCE. Andante espressivo |
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| 8. | CAPRICCIO. Vivace |
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| 9. | LULLABY. Andantino |
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| MINIATURES FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO (World Première recordings) |
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| 10. | Andantino |
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| 11. | Allegro |
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| 12. | ‘Capriccio’ |
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| SONATA IN D MINOR FOR VIOLIN AND PIANOFORTE | |||
| 13. | Adagio – Allegro |
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| 14. | Andante |
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| 15. | Allegro con fuoco |
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| ‘FREUNDSCHAFTSLIEDER’ (World Première recordings) |
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| 1. | ‘The confidence of love’. Andante |
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| 2. | Moderato |
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| 3. | Allegretto |
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| 4. | Allegro |
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| ‘TWELVE SHORT PIECES’ FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO: SET II | |||
| 5. | PRELUDE. Allegro |
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| 6. | ROMANCE. Lento espressivo |
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| 7. | CAPRICCIO. Allegretto |
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| 8. | ENVOI. Andantino |
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| PARTITA IN D MINOR (World Première recording) |
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| 9. | I. Maestoso |
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| 10. | II. ALLEMANDE. Moderato |
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| 11. | III. Presto |
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| 12. | IV. SARABANDE. Andante sostenuto |
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| 13. | V. BOURÉES FANTASTIQUES. Allegro |
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| 14. | VI. PASSEPIED EN RONDEAU. Vivace |
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| MINIATURES FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO (World Première recordings) |
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| 15. | Andante espressivo |
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| 16. | Allegretto |
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| 17. | Allegretto |
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| 18. | Allegretto pastorale |
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| 19. | FANTASIE-SONATE IN EINEM SATZ FÜR VIOLINE UND CLAVIER |
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SUITE NO.1 IN D MAJOR FOR VIOLIN AND PIANOFORTE |
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| 1. | I. PRELUDE. Allegro |
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| 2. | II. CAPRICCIOSO. Allegretto |
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| 3. | III. SCHERZO. Presto capriccioso |
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| 4. | IV. DIALOGUE. Allegretto patetico – |
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| 5. | V. FINALE. Allegro |
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| ‘TWELVE SHORT PIECES’ FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO: SET III | |||
| 6. | PREAMBLE. Allegro |
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| 7. | ROMANCE. Andante sostenuto |
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| 8. | CAPRICCIO. Vivace |
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| 9. | ENVOI. Andantino, quasi Allegretto |
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| TWO EARLY PIECES (‘Written at Weston for Ernest to play on his Violin’) (World Première recordings) |
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| 10. | Allegro |
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| 11. | [without tempo indication] |
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| MINIATURES FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO (World Première recordings) |
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| 12. | [without tempo indication] |
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| 13. | Andante espressivo |
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| 14. | [without tempo indication] |
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| SONATA IN D FOR PIANOFORTE AND VIOLIN | |||
| 15. | I. Allegro |
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| 16. | II. Andante sostenuto |
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| 17. | III. Presto vivacissimo |
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EMR CD028 | INTERNATIONAL
RECORD REVIEW