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English Piano Trio – Rutland Boughton: Of Delights and Passions (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 192 kHz]
First release of chamber works by the British composer, Rutland Boughton (1878-1960), performed by the renowned English Piano Trio.
The album includes the world premiere recordings of the Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano (1948), the Sonata in D major for Violin and Piano (1921), the Sonata for Cello and Piano (1948), and Winter Sun (1932).
Often regarded as the composer who tried to create Britain’s first “English Bayreuth”, Boughton is best remembered today for his highly successful Festivals at Glastonbury (1914-1926) and for his record-breaking Celtic opera The Immortal Hour.
At the height of his career, Boughton became hugely popular surpassing even his rivals and friends Holst and Vaughan Williams.
Apart from his two successful early string quartets and his oboe works, composed for his talented daughter Joyance, Rutland Boughton is not generally recognised for his chamber music of which there are over 20 individual pieces.
Of these, it is perhaps the Sonata in D major for Violin and Piano of 1921 – now recorded here for the first time by English Piano Trio members, Jane Faukner and Timothy Ravenscroft – that has been heard in public in recent times.
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Duncan Honeybourne – De Profundis Clamavi (2021) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
De Profundis Clamavi is a double CD with recordings of English piano music that contrasts three dramatic sonatas with a lively selection of shorter pieces ranging from sublime poetry to dark rhapsody.
![Duo Guitartes – Colloquy (2021) [FLAC 24 bit, 88,2 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/12/23/p8u5pt489vypa_600.md.jpg)
Duo Guitartes – Colloquy (2021) [FLAC 24 bit, 88,2 kHz]
EM Records announces its first guitar CD with compositions from the Renaissance to the present. Plucked instruments played a prominent role in English music during the Renaissance; we are thinking above all of the outstanding lute music by John Dowland. This era is considered the Golden Age of plucked instruments, which inspired English composers throughout the centuries. One of the most influential works of the twentieth century for classical guitar is Benjamin Britten’s Nocturnal After John Dowland. This CD contains the program that the duo Guitartes performed at the English Music Festival in May 2017 and includes works by John Dowland, Peter Philips, John Johnson, Henry Purcell, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Peter Maxwell Davies and Stephen Dodgson. Most of these works are new arrangements by the Duo Guitartes. Another outstanding highlight of this disc is the world premiere recording of the Serenade by Joseph Phibbs, dedicated to the duo Guitartes.