EMR CD069 | DETAILS
  EMR CD069
   
 

CRÉPUSCULE
   
  Aurora Trio
   
  EAN 5 060263 500650

EM Records’s release ‘Crépuscule’ is the debut disc from the young, dynamic and award-winning Aurora Trio. This feast of exciting and characterful English music for flute, viola and harp includes five World Première recordings alongside established masterworks such as Arnold Bax’s ‘Elegaic Trio’ and William Alwyn’s ‘Naïades’.

TRACK LISTING AND AUDIO EXTRACTS
     
Arnold Bax (1883–1953)
1. ‘ELEGAIC TRIO’  
       
William Alwyn (1905–1985)
2. ‘NAÏADES’  
       
Alan Rawsthorne (1905–1971)
SUITE FOR FLUTE, VIOLA AND HARP
3. Andantino  
4. Allegretto  
5. Allegro vigoroso  
       
William Alwyn
6. ‘CRÉPUSCULE’ (World Première recording)  
       
William Alwyn
TWO FOLK TUNES (World Première recording)
7. ‘Meditation’  
8. ‘Who’ll Buy My Besoms?’  
       
Malcolm Lipkin (1932–2017)
TRIO FOR FLUTE, VIOLA AND HARP (World Première recording)
9. ‘Variations’  
10. ‘Intermezzo’  
11. ‘Finale’  
       
Paul Patterson (b. 1947)
12. ‘CANONIC LULLABY’ (World Première recording)  
       
Paul Lewis (b. 1943)
‘DIVERTIMENTO’ (World Première recording)
13. ‘March’  
14. ‘Love Song’  
15. ‘Waltz’  

 

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