William Hurlstone - Piano Concerto • Fantasie-Variations on a Swedish Air • Piano Trio • Piano Quartet

Eric Parkin, piano
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Nicholas Braithwaite, conductor
Tunnell Piano Quartet

Label: Lyrita
Copyright: 2007 Lyrita Recorded Edition, England
Catalogue number: SRCD.2286
UPC/EAN: 5020926228628
Format: CD
Analogue / Digital recording: ADD
Number of discs: 2
Total playing time: 1 hours 40 mins
Price: £ 29.99 (+ postage & packing)

CD 1: Recorded at Kingsway Hall, 5 August 1976, Producer: James Mallinson, Engineer: Kenneth Wilkinson
CD 2: Recorded at Smith Square, 14, 15 August 1978, Producer: Andrew Cornall, Engineers: John Dunkerley, John Pellowe

William Yeates Hurlstone was born in West Kensington on January 7th 1876. His musical talent was early manifested to sympathetic parents, and at eighteen William won a maintenance scholarship for three years to the Royal College of Music. His promise there was sufficient for it to be extended to four years. He studied piano with Algernon Ashton — himself one of the most shamefully ignored of English composers, with a long list of what, for me, are unqualified masterpieces to his credit — and composition with Stanford, who spoke of him as his best student
Stanford’s other students at the time included John Ireland, Frank Bridge, Coleridge-Taylor and Thomas Dunhill, with all of whom, especially Coleridge-Taylor, Hurlstone was always on very friendly terms ...