The Brahms Trio - History of the Russian Piano Trio, Vol. 9 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Written over the course of a quarter-century, these four flute works reflect the individual approaches to the flute sonata taken by their composers. Hindemith's aim was to offer new music of buoyancy and brio, tempered by elegiac moments. Prokofiev's famous sonata has Classical formal elegance, while the sonatas of Denisov and Nagovitsyn are single movement works that explore the flute's extreme registers, as well as it's dynamic contrasts and virtuosic capacities. Denis Lupachev won First Prize at the International Festival 'Virtuosi2000' (Russia) in 1993, and in 1997 received the jury's Special Prize at the Kobe International Flute Competition (Japan). In 1999, he was awarded First Prize at the 'Leonardo de Lorenzo' International Flute Competition (Italy). Lupachev gives many recitals and chamber music concerts in Russia as well as throughout Europe. Since 2016, he has organized the International Festival 'Virtuosi of the Flute' in the Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg. Peter Laul was awarded First Prize in both the Bremen International Piano Competition (1997) and the Scriabin International Piano Competition in Moscow (2000). Laul has given recitals at prestigious international venues such as the halls of the St Petersburg Philharmonic and the Moscow Conservatory, the Auditorium du Louvre, Lincoln Center in New York, the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, and Suntory Hall and Opera City Concert Hall in Tokyo. He is a consummate chamber musician, who regularly partners with Maxim Vengerov, Ilya Gringolts, Valery Sokolov, Alexander Ghindin and the Borodin Quartet. Album Tracks 1. Flute Sonata (1936) 2. Flute Sonata (1962) 3. Flute Sonata (1960) 4. Flute Sonata in D Major, Op. 94 (1943)

SOMM Recordings' fruitful collaboration with Leon Bosch, renowned double bass player and director of I Musicanti, has recently produced a group of world premiere recordings, which consist of four delightful and interestingly disparate British Piano Quintets. The two quintets by Percy Godfrey (1899-1945) and Richard Walthew (1872-1951) fall within a post-Romantic idiom reminiscent of Rachmaninoff's music, while those of John McCabe (1939-2015) and Ivor Hodgson (b.1959) share terrific rhythmic vitality and modern harmonies whilst remaining entirely accessible. Although the music of Percy Godfrey is little known these days, he received two notable awards around the turn of the last century. In 1902, he won a competition for a Coronation March for King Edward VII and, in 1899, he was awarded the prize for a newly-announced chamber music competition. That winning piece was his Piano Quintet in E flat major heard on this . The quintet by Richard Walthew is titled Phantasy Quintet. Walthew was an important figure in English chamber music during the first half of the 20th century, having a natural affinity for the genre. His single movement Phantasy Quintet is his most successful chamber work, and it recreates the spirit of the Elizabethan consort through a varied statement-counterstatement-restatement . John McCabe produced works in virtually every genre, including music for television. His theme tune for the 1973 family drama series, Sam, became a huge hit and was the inspiration for his 1989 chamber work, Sam Variations. As McCabe noted, InchThe theme itself is never heard direct - the nearest we get to it is in the rather enigmatic coda... But all of the material is taken from the theme and transformed in a variation-like way... Inch Among the varied works by the prolific composer and double bass player, Ivor Hodgson, is a set of nine concerti-including one he wrote for

Berlin is the focus of this eighth volume of the History of the Russian Piano Trio, which features two Russian composers who lived in the city. Nikolai Lopatnikoff's symphonies were premiered by Bruno Walter and Serge Koussevitzky, and he was once ranked alongside Stravinsky. Lopatnikoff's Piano Trio in A minor is an archetypal example of Russian modernism, unparalleled in it's use of allusions, tonalities and form. Paul Juon's Suite in C major is full of elegant and vivid theatrical imagery, while his Piano Trio No. 1 in A minor employs charming stylised folk material influenced by Brahms. Album Tracks 1. Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 23~I. Allegro 2. Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 23~II. Scherzo Allegro molto vivace 3. Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 23~III. Andante 4. Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 23~IV. Allegro molto 5. Suite in C major, Op. 89~I. Moderato 6. Suite in C major, Op. 89~II. Giocoso 7. Suite in C major, Op. 89~III. Andantino 8. Suite in C major, Op. 89~IV. Allegretto 9. Suite in C major, Op. 89~V. Allegro giusto 10. Piano Trio No. 1 in A minor, Op. 17~I. Allegro 11. Piano Trio No. 1 in A minor, Op. 17~II. Adagio non troppo 12. Piano Trio No. 1 in A minor, Op. 17~III. Rondo Allegro