Lawrence Power, Simon Crawford-phillips - Benjaminviolin Sonatina [CD]

Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.All items shipped within 3 working days of payment.Lawrence Power is Britainu2019s 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.rrBenjamin 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.rThis album represents something of a departure for Lawrence Poweru2019s recording career: he performs Benjaminu2019s Violin Sonatina on the violin. This ambitious, virtuosic and formidably accomplished work is not at all diminutiveu2014perhaps the lack of a slow movement was felt to debar it from full sonata status.rBenjaminu2019s 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.

<b>Violin Sonatina |</b> Tranquilly flowing [7'44]

<b>Violin Sonatina |</b> Scherzo di stile antico [2'43]

<b>Violin Sonatina |</b> Rondo | Con moto ma non allegro [5'42]

<b>Three Pieces for violin and piano |</b> Arabesque (The Muted Pavane) [4'31]

<b>Three Pieces for violin and piano |</b> Carnavalesque | Tempo di valse [3'35]

<b>Three Pieces for violin and piano |</b> Humoresque | Non troppo allegro [3'23]

<b>A tune and variations for little people</b> [3'23]

<b>Le tombeau de Ravel</b> Valses-caprices [13'15]

<b>Viola Sonata |</b> Elegy | Adagio e mesto [7'07]

<b>Viola Sonata |</b> Waltz | Quasi improvisatore [5'48]

<b>Viola Sonata |</b> Toccata | Allegro ma non troppo [4'12]

<b>From San Domingo</b> [2'51]

<b>Jamaican Rumba</b> <i>arr</i> WILLIAM PRIMROSE (19041982) [1'51]

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