Arthur Benjamin - Violin Sonatina, Viola Sonata
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Label: Hyperion
Cat No: CDA67969
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 2nd June 2014
Contents
Works
A Tune and Variations for Little PeopleFrom San Domingo
Jamaican Rumba (arr. Primrose)
Le Tombeau de Ravel: Valse-Caprices
Pieces (3) for violin and piano
Viola Sonata
Violin Sonatina
Artists
Lawrence Power (violin, viola)Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano)
Works
A Tune and Variations for Little PeopleFrom San Domingo
Jamaican Rumba (arr. Primrose)
Le Tombeau de Ravel: Valse-Caprices
Pieces (3) for violin and piano
Viola Sonata
Violin Sonatina
Artists
Lawrence Power (violin, viola)Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano)
About
Lawrence Power is Britain’s greatest living viola player, the true successor to Lionel Tertis and William Primrose. Part of his mission is to perform and record music premiered by those masters of the previous century, including works by York Bowen, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Benjamin Dale, William Walton and, here, Arthur Benjamin.
Benjamin was one of the first Australian musicians to forge an international reputation. His creative output, which encompasses about eighty works altogether, manifests a great variety of idioms and genres. It includes a good number of light-music miniatures, many of them infused with a jazz or Afro-Caribbean flavour: the most famous of these is the Jamaican Rumba which concludes this album.
This album represents something of a departure for Lawrence Power’s recording career: he performs Benjamin’s Violin Sonatina on the violin. This ambitious, virtuosic and formidably accomplished work is not at all diminutive - perhaps the lack of a slow movement was felt to debar it from full sonata status.
Benjamin’s Viola Sonata is a wartime piece, with a first movement of dark foreboding. It manifests a spiritual affinity with the large-scale and often elegiac Symphony that Benjamin was about to begin composing, and it contains the bleakest and perhaps the most deeply felt music on the present album. It is an impressive, powerful and virtuosic work, with many technical challenges, all of which Lawrence scales with his usual astonishing prowess.
Sound/Video
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1Benjamin (A): Violin Sonatina - 1. Tranquilly Flowing
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2Benjamin (A): Violin Sonatina - 2. Scherzo Di Stile Antico
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3Benjamin (A): Violin Sonatina - 3. Rondo: Con Moto Ma Non Allegro
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4Benjamin (A): 3 Pieces For Violin & Piano - #1 Arabesque (The Muted Pavane)
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5Benjamin (A): 3 Pieces For Violin & Piano - #2 Carnavalesque: Tempo Di Valse
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6Benjamin (A): 3 Pieces For Violin & Piano - #3 Humouresque: Non Troppo Allegro
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7Benjamin (A): A Tune & Variations For Little People
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8Benjamin (A): Le Tombeau De Ravel
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9Benjamin (A): Viola Sonata - 1. Elegy: Adagio & Mesto
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10Benjamin (A): Viola Sonata - 2. Waltz: Quasi Improvisatore
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11Benjamin (A): Viola Sonata - 3. Toccata: Allegro Ma Non Troppo
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12Benjamin (A): From San Domingo
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13Benjamin (A)/Primrose: Jamaican Rumba
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