Naxos, 2013. 1 CD 14,2 x 12,9 x 1,0 cm, CD in Jewelcase

Sprache: Englisch

ISBN: 747313313679

Bestell-Nr: 131103

Bemerkungen: Sehr guter Zustand. // Kurzbeschreibung Benjamin Britten was a viola player as well as a pianist and wrote a significant body of chamber music for stringed instruments. The works on this recording - which contains important world premiere recordings - were written between 1925 and 1937, with the exception of the masterpiece for viola, Lachrymae. Each reveals some characteristic aspect of Britten's voice, from the variety and wit of the Suite for Violin and Piano, Op. 6 to the little-known but absorbingly imaginative Reveille and the remarkably assured 1930 Elegy, written when he was just seventeen. Rezension 'Matthew Jones's performances here, well accompanied by Annabel Thwaite, are sometimes more expansive but have a sure feel for Britten's idiom...Lachrymae, the single mature masterpiece on the disc, is rightly intense. It is good of Naxos to give us Britten's solo violin and viola repertoire so neatly packaged.' --Gramophone, February 2014 'There isn't a single dud item here...Jones's playing of both instruments [violin and viola] enthrals. His viola tone is different from the turbocharged massiveness of many of today's soloists; instead he searches out the instrument's capacity for gentle light and shade and remarkable resonance, culminating in a wonderful interpretation, at once powerful and poignant, of the Dowland-inspired Lachrymae...the recorded sound (Wyaston Hall in Monmouth) is of state-of-the-art naturalness and warmth.' CHAMBER CHOICE ***** --BBC Music Magazine, February 2014 /musik cds ISBN: 747313313679