{"id":6816,"date":"2022-05-30T16:14:59","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T15:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larkreviews.co.uk\/?p=6816"},"modified":"2022-05-30T16:14:59","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T15:14:59","slug":"cds-may-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=6816","title":{"rendered":"CDs May 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

CARL VINE \u2013 COMPLETE PIANO SONATAS<\/span>
\nXIAOYA LIU, piano<\/span>
\nDYNAMIC CDS7931 69\u201956<\/span><\/p>\n

A \u201cfull-on\u201d contemporary experience is guaranteed with this CD which contains the composer\u2019s four Piano Sonatas, written between 1990 and 2019. Mostly dense, exuberant, extrovert writing, with some more restrained passages, they are brought to life in these committed performances from Xiaoya Liu. World premiere recordings.<\/p>\n

MANUEL MARIA PONCE \u2013 COMPLETE PIANO WORKS 3<\/span>
\n ALVARO CENDOYA, piano<\/span>
\n GRAND PIANO GP772 69\u201925<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the notes Manuel Ponce was a leading light in Mexican nationalist music. These are lovely performances of music which is sometimes lyrical, sometimes more rhythmic and virtuosic. His music shows varied influences from the Western Romantic pianistic tradition to local folk and dance music. The CD presents these works, from the first four decades of the 20th Century, in a well balanced programme.<\/p>\n

SELIM PALMGREN \u2013 COMPLETE PIANO WORKS 4<\/span>
\n JOUNI SOMERO, piano<\/span>
\n GRAND PIANO GP907 72\u201939<\/span><\/p>\n

Jouni Somero continues this survey of a rather neglected late 19th\/20th Century composer who was a student of Busoni. It is lovely to hear these pieces freshly presented in fine new performances. There is a range of colour and expression here in music that takes up the batons of both the Romantic and Impressionist movements and also draws on jazz and folk influences. Alongside a number of miniatures are several more extended works including Nocturne in 3 Scenes<\/em>, 3 Fantasies<\/em> and Triptych<\/em>.<\/p>\n

CAMARGO GUARNIERI \u2013 CHOROS 2<\/span>
\n SAO PAULO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA & SOLOISTS<\/span>
\n ROBERTO TIBIRICA, conductor<\/span>
\n NAXOS 8.574403 70\u201913<\/span><\/p>\n

Naxos\u2019 Music of Brazil strand continues with this 2nd volume of Choros (concertos) highlighting in turn clarinet, piano, viola and cello. Alongside these four works is Flor de Tremembe<\/em>, which has some similarities in compositional style. This is mostly infectious, spirited music. It is a delight to listen to this programme of pieces which deserve to be so much more widely known.<\/p>\n

LORD BERNERS \u2013 SONGS + PIANO MUSIC<\/span>
\n IAN PARTRIDGE, tenor<\/span>
\n LEN VORSTER, piano<\/span>
\n NAXOS 8.554475 51\u201945<\/span><\/p>\n

There is a lightness and playfulness to much of this highly individual composer\u2019s work as demonstrated in the opening Polka<\/em>. An immediate contrast is to be found in his Lieder Album- Three Songs in the German manner<\/em> which combine a surprisingly percussive piano part with the lyrical vocal line which at times verges on the atonal. There is much humour but of a more cerebral kind! A welcome and highly entertaining release from these two able performers.<\/p>\n

ROBERT DOCKER \u2013 3 CONTRASTS – BRITISH LIGHT MUSIC 7<\/span>
\n WILLIAM DAVIES, piano. DAVID PRESLEY, oboe<\/span>
\n RTE CONCERT ORCHESTRA, BARRY KNIGHT, conductor<\/span>
\n NAXOS 8.574322 74\u201938<\/span><\/p>\n

This disc highlights the work of a prolific composer in this genre. These are re-released recordings from 1995 but none the worse for that! There is a fresh feel to this music, rich in melody and with inventive orchestration. Opening with perhaps Docker\u2019s most famous piece, Legend,<\/em> other highlights are the Three Contrasts<\/em> of the title, the Pastiche Variations<\/em> and the contrasting Air.<\/em> A lovely release.<\/p>\n

ARNOLD SCHOENBERG \u2013 STRING QUARTETS<\/span>
\n GRINGOLTS QUARTET<\/span>
\n BIS-2567 79\u201931<\/span><\/p>\n

Of the two Quartets<\/em> performed here, No 1 is the most accessible for the general listener. No 3 is more angular and less melodic but the medium of the string quartet still makes for an \u2018easier\u2019 sound than the composer\u2019s music for other forces. Fresh recordings from this well balanced group make for a very welcome release.<\/p>\n

SAMUEL BARBER \u2013 THE COMPLETE SONGS<\/span>
\n FLEUR BARRON, MARY BEVAN, SAMANTHA CLARKE, JESS DANDY, LOUISE KEMENY,<\/span>
\n SORAYA MAFI, JULIEN VAN MELLAERTS, DOMINIC SEDGWICK, NICKY SPENCE,<\/span>
\n WILLIAM THOMAS, soloists<\/span>
\n NAVARRA STRING QUARTET<\/span>
\n DYLAN PEREZ, piano<\/span>
\n RESONUS RES10301 (2CDs) 80\u201926<\/span><\/p>\n

A brilliant production from Resonus collecting the whole of Barber\u2019s song settings, performed by a variety of singers, with many familiar names, ably assisted throughout by pianist Dylan Perez. Many of these songs will be unfamiliar, some recorded for the first time.<\/p>\n

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