EMR CD066 | DETAILS
  EMR CD066
   
 

PHOENIX
   
  Nicola Hands (ob. & cor ang.)
Jonathan Pease (pf.)
   
  EAN 5 060263 500629

EM Records is pleased to announce a disc of enchanting English oboe and piano music featuring Nicola Hands and Jonathan Pease. Named after the ‘Phoenix Sonata’ (2010) by Paul Patterson, this recording promotes new contemporary works and arrangements for oboe / cor anglais and piano (three World Première recordings feature here) alongside other gems of the repertoire.

TRACK LISTING AND AUDIO EXTRACTS
     
Sir Richard Rodney Bennett (1936–2012)
‘FOUR COUNTRY DANCES’ (2000)
1. ‘A New Dance’  
2. ‘Lady Day’  
3. ‘The Mulberry Garden’  
4. ‘Nobody’s Jig’  
       
William Alwyn (1905–1985)
SONATA FOR OBOE AND PIANO (1934)
5. Moderato e grazioso  
6. Andantino  
7. Allegro (quasi Valse tempo)  
       
Michael Berkeley (b.1948)
8. ‘SNAKE’ (1994)  
       
Jonathan Dove (b.1959)
9. ‘LAMENT FOR A LOVELORN LENANSHEE’ (1993)  
       
Jonathan Pease (b.1988)
10. ‘WESTBOURNE NOCTURNE’ (2019) (World Première recording)  
       
Paul Patterson (b.1947)
‘PHOENIX SONATA’ (2010) (World Première recording)
11. Allegro vivace  
12. Tranquillo  
13. Allegro molto  
       
Frederick Delius (1862–1934) arr. Robert Threlfall (1918–2014)
‘HARMONIC VARIATIONS’ (1998) (World Première recording)
14. Lento  
15. Comodo, with easy dance movement  

 

REVIEWS
Beautifully shaped by Benjamin Frith... Beguiling sounds, graced by the tawny richness and unexaggerated line of Richard Jenkinson’s cello playing... The sense of purpose and sureness of line of Ian Venables’ music is pure oxygen.
EMR CD31 | BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE
Exquisitely rewarding... Ravishing accounts.
EMR CD029 | CHOIR AND ORGAN
This is music of great beauty and integrity and the performances fully do it justice. It would be criminal to let it pass you by.

EMR CD028 | INTERNATIONAL
RECORD REVIEW

The Bridge Quartet approach these pieces with a sympathetic and insightful warmth, and confirm their ambassadorial credentials for British chamber music. A lovely, radiant disc.
EMR CD025 | Gramophone
Duncan Honeybourne’s playing is astonishingly affectionate, yet never saccharine... Honeybourne plays with suave confidence.
EMR CD024 | INTERNATIONAL PIANO
Rupert Marshall-Luck is an ideal interpreter: generously but not effusively lyrical; agile and athletic... The warm, folk-song like slow movement is at times almost painfully beautiful, with a shimmering pastoral central section... Marshall-Luck is, again, indefatigable and keenly picks up on the work’s melancholic strain.  Finely recorded and with comprehensive booklet notes, this is a must for fans of 20th-century English repertoire.
EMR CD023 | THE STRAD