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ID: GMCD7120
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Piano
Recorded at: The Arts Centre of the London Oratory School, Fulham, London by kind permission of the Headmaster and Bursar, January 4th & 5th 1996
The Belfast-born composer Howard Ferguson has enjoyed an enviable reputation amongst those who really know their British music of the 20th century: his music is not great in output, but is distinguished at all times by a fastidious craftsmanship and an inspired abundance of melody. Dame Myra Hess recorded his Piano Sonata and Bagatelles, and Denis Brain his Octet - all on 78rpm discs - so this outstanding composer has not been without distinguished advocates. His Second Violin Sonata of 1948 is in three cogent movements.
The First Violin Sonata by Eugène Goossens is an outstanding work, the neglect of which - as with all of this supremely-gifted composer’s music - is quite inexplicable. The slow movement was recorded on a 78rpm disc by Andre Mangeot and the composer himself over 70 years ago - this new recording marks the first time this work has appeared complete in the British record catalogues!
The sensational success of the Second Violin Sonata by John Ireland in 1917 - it was performed nine times in the following season - may well have inspired Goossens to write his Sonata. It is surely true to say that no other English chamber work of the 20th century was ever received with greater enthusiasm than this. It remains one of Ireland’s greatest masterpieces, and should be known by all lovers of English music. |
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ID: GMCD7125
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Piano
This album is a brand-new collection of some of the most brilliant and best-loved of all favourite pieces for violin and piano, known and loved to millions of music-lovers the world over.
It offers the intelligent collector a superb and unique album which also contains some popular pieces which are but rarely recorded - pieces which every violinist will have played at some time during their career, but which do not always find their way onto compact disc.
This programme is distinguished by the most brilliant and sensitive playing by one of the leading European violinists of the day, who is sympathetically accompanied by one of Switzerland’s most gifted composers, conductors and pianists.
The recording, made in England in 1996, is state-of-the-art, and the entire collection is bound to be one of the most popular albums Guild has released in the past few years. |
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ID: GMCD7127
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Piano and Cello
Recorded at Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel, Hampstead, London 1996
Here is a rare coupling - the two great Romantic Cello Sonatas from the late 19th-century era of high-romanticism, joined on one CD, together with other music for cello and piano by Grieg and Rachmaninov.
The performances, by this highly-acclaimed young duo, are of exceptional passion and refinement, and the quality of the recording is one of the best Guild has achieved in recent years - which is saying a lot.
These two Sonatas - both of which were played in concert by Pablo Casals with their respective composers - have, in recent years, become to be recognised as high-points in the cello repertoire and have enjoyed a growing and enthusiastic audience for their inspired qualities.
They make a superb coupling, and in addition, we include some rare shorter music for cello and piano by both composers. |
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ID: GMCD7250
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Flute
Recorded: Blum Haller, October 2001; Vogel Schaeuble January 2002; Radio Studio Zürich |
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ID: GMCD7241
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Piano
Recorded: Potten Hall, Suffolk, England on 8 December 2001 |
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ID: GMCD7273
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Piano
Recorded: St Silas Church, Chalk Farm 27 April 1999 (tracks 1, 4, 8 & 9) and St Paul’s School, Barnes, London (remaining tracks). |
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ID: GMCD7277
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Piano
Recorded: St George’s Bristol, 6 & 7 August 2003 |
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ID: CR134
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Piano
Hyekyung Lee, born in Wonju, Korea in 1959 began to play piano at the age of 6. After winning several national music competitions, she had her first public concert with Seoul Sinfonietta Orchestra in 1970, and 4 years later became the soloist for the foundation concert of Korea Jeunesse Musicale Orchestra. Entering Folkwang Music College in Essen, Germany in 1975, she subsequently won the DAAD German government scholarship, the Folkwang Prize Competition and the nationwide German Music College Union Competition. Transferring to Muenchen Music College, she graduated with top marks in 1981. During 2 years of graduate school, she gave recitals, performed for various radio programs and earned the Bach Prize at Vianna da Motta International Competition in Lisbon. In 1984, Miss Lee returned home to teach at Chung-Ang University as a professor. Today, Hyekyung Lee is recognized as one of Korea’s outstanding musicians with her wide concert repertoires from baroque to contemporary. In 1984 she received the 'Critic's Prize' from the Korea Music Pen Club. In 1988 she was selected as 'Musician of the Year' by Dong-A music magazine. In 1993 she received the 'Korea Music Award' from the Korea Music Society. In 2004 she received the 'Seoul Music Prize' from the Korea Music Critic Association. Hyekyung Lee has performed at Kennedy Center and Lincoln Center in USA, in Sydney, Vienna, Moscow, Tokyo, Manila and with the Ulster Orchestra in Northern Ireland. In Korea she plays regularly with the Korea Philharmonic Orchestra and the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra. She has also performed chamber music with the Colorado String Quartet, the New Budapest String Quartet, flautists Patrick Galloy and Maxence Larrieu, trumpeter Stephen Burns, Korea’s top violinist Dong-Suk Kang and the Korean traditional drum quartet Samulnori, among many others. Miss Lee's career has also brought her in contact with many fine conductors, including Vakhtang Jordania, Bernhard Gueller, Barry Wordsworth, Sandro Suturello and Yan Pascal Tortelier |
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