Arnold Bax - Sonata for Cello and Piano • Sonatina • Legend-Sonata etc.
Gordon Jacob - Divertimento for Solo Cello etc.

Florence Hooton, cello
Wilfrid Parry, piano

Label: Lyrita
Copyright: 2008 Lyrita Recorded Edition, England
Catalogue number: REAM.2104
UPC/EAN: 5020926210425
Format: CD
Analogue / Digital recording: ADD Mono
Number of discs: 2
Total playing time: 1 hours 45 mins
Price: £ 14.99 (+ postage & packing)

Recorded July & September 1958 (Bax), July & November 1958 (Jacob), The Music Room, Burnham, Buckinghamshire
Richard Itter, Producer & Engineer

... a striking simplicity of texture, developed in his later years, revealed the essential Englishman in Bax’s last works - simple, sensuous and passionate, the Violin Concerto and the Legend-Sonata, not to mention Morning Song, belong in the true English tradition ...

Disc 1
1 Folk-Tale (1918) Arnold Bax (1883 - 1953) 9.20
Sonata for Cello and Piano (1923) Arnold Bax (1883 - 1953) 34.25
2 I Moderato, Tempo vaccilando 12.31
3 II Poco lento 11.15
4 III Molto vivace ma non troppo 10.39
Sonatina (1933) Arnold Bax (1883 - 1953) 16.04
5 I Allegro risoluto 4.48
6 II Andante 7.02
7 III Moderato 4.14
Disc 2
Legend-Sonata (1943) Arnold Bax (1883 - 1953) 25.53
1 I Allegro risoluto 9.21
2 II Lento espressivo 8.53
3 III Rondo (Allegro) 7.39
Divertimento for Solo Cello (1955) Gordon Jacob (1895 - 1984) 12.04
4 I Prelude 1.41
5 II Improvisation 5.04
6 III Minuet & Trio 2.29
7 IV Rondino 2.50
8 Elegy for Cello and Piano (1959) Gordon Jacob (1895 - 1984) 7.41