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From Phantasy (the joyful, exuberant opening work by York Bowen) to Fantasie (the concluding, exhilarating, ever-popular bit of theatre by Franz Waxman), violist Matthew Lipman
Except for York Bowen, the composers featured on this disc of 20th-century horn sonatas may not be familiar to general collectors. I had never heard
York Bowen’s music has slowly gained attention on disc, principally through a superb 1995 recital by Stephen Hough for Hyperion and several releases on Chandos
York Bowen was a splendid composer for the piano (and an excellent concert artist as well). His Third Piano Concerto is a single-movement piece about
Reviewing Joop Celis’ previous Chandos York Bowen release for Classicstoday.com, I praised the Dutch pianist’s formidable craftsmanship yet found his interpretations slightly lacking in lightness
Both of these concertos were written in the first decade of the last century for Lionel Tertis, the great British violist, and both are quite
At first hearing, pianophiles might mistake York Bowen’s coruscating keyboard idiom for Rachmaninov or Medtner, although his ravishing harmonic sense is more akin to Delius,
Listening to this collection of miniatures by English composers is akin to passing a pleasant afternoon in a small gallery run by a fastidious, knowledgable,
Even without referring to the concise program notes, you easily hear the pervasive French influence in these flute works by British composers. Fauré, Poulenc, Taffenel,
York Bowen’s Second Symphony of 1911 has its charms, most of them involving the way he cribs from Tchaikovsky without ever approaching that master’s gift
