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Home CDE84677/8-2 Brief Encounters Brief Encounters double CD
Peter Mallinson - Viola Lynn Arnold - Piano Shirley Turner - Violin*
CD 1
Ruth Gipps: Jane GreyVítezslava Kaprálová: RitournelleNadia Boulanger: Three PiecesJames Friskin: ElegyRebecca Clarke: I’ll bid my heart be stillVadim Borisovsky: Sicilian Tarantelle “Volcano” Julia Simpson: The TunnelAlison Dalrymple: LullabyDorothy Howell: For MyfanwyDorothy Howell: Boat Song for solo piano Alexandre Dubuque: TarantellaAmy Beach: RomanceJames Reese Europe: Queen LouiseJames Reese Europe: Castle House Rag
CD 2
Alexander Zemlinsky: Three PiecesMuriel Herbert: Two SongsRosemary Glyde: Whydah Fantasia for solo viola Percy Hilder Miles: Two SongsFrancis Purcell Warren: Five Short PiecesTom Wiggins: Rêve Charmant (Nocturne) for solo pianoW. H. Squire: Danse RustiqueTom Wiggins: Water in the Moonlight*Cecil Forsyth: Tiger, Tiger, Burning BrightBilly Mayerl: Shallow WatersRuth Gipps: Lyric FantasyKalitha Dorothy Fox: Chant ÉlégiaqueKai Mortensen: The Laughing Viola
“This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures”. So wrote the English novelist Rudyard Kipling. But it is not just to life that this comment might be applied; in this programme we explore pieces of music which, in different ways, confront or embody a notion of brevity, in their form, their theme, or their musical destiny. It is a project which has itself proven to be far from brief, and our journey has brought us many “splendid moments” of discovery: the charm or eloquence of musical miniatures; the poignancy of works created during a life cut short; the mysterious impact of utterances quite uncharacteristic of a composer’s customary voice; the immediate appeal of pieces whose popularity was as intense as it was short-lived.
