Ferguson, Bliss & Holloway - Chamber Music
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Label: BIS
Cat No: BIS2547
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 24th November 2023
Contents
Artists
Wigmore SoloistsAbout
Howard Ferguson’s Octet, a direct and engaging work, was the first of his works to attract attention. Ferguson’s skill is brilliantly demonstrated in this tonally ambiguous work, which takes its instrumentation from Schubert’s famous Octet. The main characteristic of Sir Arthur Bliss’s Clarinet Quintet, like those of Mozart and Brahms with the same instrumental line-up, is its intense, overtly emotional lyricism, but the sunny, extrovert aspects of Bliss’s character ultimately prevail in the brilliantly energetic finale. Robin Holloway’s Serenade in C for octet is the most recent work on this disc, and also features the instrumentation of Schubert’s Octet, which the composer acknowledges as a model. Few contemporary composers display as keen a sense of humour as Holloway who wished here to give “an affectionate twist to tonal common practice and light-music clichés all the way from Biedermeier Vienna to Southend Pier”.
Wigmore Soloists:
- Isabelle van Keulen (violin)
- Sini Simonen (violin)
- Scott Dickinson (viola)
- Rachel Roberts (viola)
- Kristina Blaumane (cello)
- Tim Grill (cello)
- Tim Gibbs (double bass)
- Michael Collins (clarinet)
- Robin O’Neill (bassoon)
- Alberto Menéndez Escribano (horn)
- Diego Incertis Sánchez (horn)
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