I HOLST String Chamber Music
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Composer or Director: Imogen Holst
Genre:
Chamber
Label: NMC
Magazine Review Date: 10/2017
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 75
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: NMCD236
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Phantasy Quartet |
Imogen Holst, Composer
Imogen Holst, Composer |
Duo for Viola and Piano |
Imogen Holst, Composer
Daniel Swain, Piano Imogen Holst, Composer Tom Hankey, Viola |
String Trio No 1 |
Imogen Holst, Composer
Imogen Holst, Composer |
(The) Fall of the Leaf |
Imogen Holst, Composer
Imogen Holst, Composer |
Sonata for Violin and Cello |
Imogen Holst, Composer
Imogen Holst, Composer |
String Quintet |
Imogen Holst, Composer
David Worswick, Violin Imogen Holst, Composer Oliver Coates, Cello Simon Hewitt Jones, Violin Thomas Hewitt Jones, Cello Tom Hankey, Viola |
Author: Guy Rickards
Reissued by NMC with a new dust cover but essentially the disc reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in March 2009, the programme is framed by the early Cobbett Prize-winning Phantasy Quartet (1928), very much in the pastoral tradition of the time, and the late, almost impressionistic String Quintet (1982), written just two years before Imogen Holst’s death. The four intervening works reveal the various styles and techniques she investigated over time, disposed on the disc to maximise textural contrast.
By 1930 she had begun to absorb French models, her marvellous Sonata for violin and cello undoubtedly influenced by Ravel’s from 1922. A leaner, starker tone haunts the wartime String Trio No 1 (1944), which battles between E and C, and the Duo for viola and piano (1968) where dodecaphony, rooted in C, is touched on. Yet always, as in the three short solo cello studies The Fall of the Leaf (1962), her own quiet voice is discernible. Terrific performances and sound; I’ve had it on loop.
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