Artist: Laurence Jackson

Title: Chamber Music

Condition:

Format: CD

Release Date: 2023

Label: Toccata

UPC: 5060113447029

Genre: Classical Artists

Album Tracks

1. I. Adagio - Allegro Vivace [10:32]
2. II. Andantino [05:17]
3. III. Allegro Vivace [10:15]
4. I. Prelude [03:15]
5. II. Idyll [07:13]
6. III. Menuet [02:11]
7. IV. Air and Variations [06:23]
8. V. Jig [03:14]
9. I. Legato (Moderato) [12:26]
10. II. Scherzo - Trio (Presto) [04:53]

Frederick Septimus Kelly, born in Sydney in 1881, was on the way to becoming one of Australia's most important early composers when he was killed during the Battle of the Somme in 1916. The three works recorded here - for the first time - underline just how grievous was that loss, not only for Australia but for the musical world more generally. Kelly's D minor Violin Sonata is an astonishingly assured work for a twenty-year-old student composer; his Serenade for flute and piano exudes good-natured charm; and the two surviving movements of his Piano Trio - which have a Brahmsian intensity - suggest that he would have been one of the major composers of the twentieth century.