Charles Villiers Stanford - Irish Rhapsody No.4* • Funeral March 'The Martyrdom' from Becket** • Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor
Malcolm Binns, piano
Label: Lyrita
Track 1: Recorded at Kingsway Hall, 6 March 1980, Producer: Andrew Cornall, Engineers: Kenneth Wilkinson, John Pellowe |
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"In his study of Stanford’s choral and instrumental music his pupil Thomas Dunhill noted that the Rhapsodies make a strong appeal ‘by reason of the wild, natural poetry that is in them. The scoring, too, is more inspired, more full of light and shadow, of colour and glamour.’ This last observation is particularly true of the fourth – indeed, Dunhill claims that it is the one he would choose to play ‘if I wanted to impress a foreign unbeliever with the real beauty of British music at its best’" Geoffrey Bush
"This is an invaluable Stanford collection. The Irish Rhapsody No. 4 is a marvellous discovery ... Orchestral balance is miraculous and Braithwaite’s sense of the music’s flow is perfect ..." Colin Clarke, www.musicweb-international.com Click here to read the full review |
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