Elgar in Sussex
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Label: Champs Hill Records
Cat No: CHRCD027
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 7th November 2011
Contents
Artists
Felicity Lott (soprano)Joseph Middleton (piano)
Schubert Ensemble
Gould Piano Trio
Works
Lieder (7)Movements (3) for Piano Trio
Piano Quintet in A minor, op.84
Artists
Felicity Lott (soprano)Joseph Middleton (piano)
Schubert Ensemble
Gould Piano Trio
About
The Schubert Ensemble perform Elgar’s Piano Quintet in A Minor. This elegiac Quintet, with its substantial slow movement, is a record of his time in Sussex. Infused with the atmosphere of the surrounding countryside, it - while of its time - transcends the war.
Despite Elgar’s declaration that he was ‘not a song writer’, a number of his songs stand comparison with the very best of the English song repertoire. Dame Felicity Lott, accompanied by Joseph Middleton, sings a variety of Elgar’s most noted songs. Included in this selection of seven songs are Pleading and Is She not Passing Fair?, the texts for both of which contain a mixture of the nostalgia and whimsy which attracted Elgar in the first place, and inspired his melodies which linger in the mind.
In 2007, the composer Paul Adrian Rooke was commissioned to complete Elgar’s unfinished Three Movements for Piano Trio, newly recorded here by the Gould Piano Trio. Elgar left the first of these three Movements in fragmentary form, and unfortunately little is known of its origin. The second Movement is a Minuet and Trio, and was written by Elgar for a private performance with his friend Charles Buck and Buck’s mother while staying at their home in Settle, Yorkshire. The third Movement, The March for the Grafton family, is a version for piano trio of Elgar’s Empire March of 1924. While not written as a set, they can be effective, played consecutively.
Contents:
- Piano Quintet in A minor, Op.84
The Schubert Ensemble
Simon Blendis and Ursula Gough ~ violins / Douglas Paterson ~ viola / Jane Salmon ~ ‘cello / William Howard ~ piano
- Seven Songs
Felicity Lott ~ soprano / Joseph Middleton ~ piano
1. The Shepherd’s Song (Op.16 No.1)
2. Pleading (Op.48)
3. Like to the Damask Rose
4. Is She Not Passing Fair?
5. Speak, Music (Op.42 No.2)
6. Rondel (Op.16 No.3)
7. Queen Mary’s Song
- Three Movements for Pianoforte Trio
Gould Piano Trio
Lucy Gould ~ violin / Alice Neary ~ ‘cello / Benjamin Frith ~ piano
Total Time: 77mins
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