Boyce - Trio Sonatas | Hyperion - Dyad CDD22063

Boyce - Trio Sonatas

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Label: Hyperion - Dyad

Cat No: CDD22063

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 28th June 2010

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The music of William Boyce has always retained a special place in the English repertory. This recording is of the Twelve Sonatas for Two Violins with a Bass for the Violoncello or Harpsicord, published in 1747, and three unpublished Trio Sonatas edited from a manuscript in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

These particularly attractive works boast a wide range of stylistic features and forms and for many years held centre-stage in England as masterpieces in the genre. The performances are divided between a solo quartet and the full Parley of Instruments, so ensuring over two hours of varied and inspiring listening.

The works, large and small, have an air of sweet reasonableness. The fugues are warmly greeted but never aggressively attacked; the string tone in the slow movements is very appealing, sweet and well blended. The two solo violins carry on an urbane and charming dialogue, their voices twining in and out of each other like those of a long-married couple who can anticipate what the other will say. In the final Gigues everyone lets their hair down for an end-of-concerto romp. Attractive music performed with skill’ - BBC Music Magazine

Yet another treasurable document of England’s musical heritage’ - Gramophone

[from CDA67151/2]

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