English Romanticism II. Music by Elgar, Goossens - J. Filsell, piano / O. Lewis, violin

ID: GMCD7124 (EAN: 795754712421)  | 1 CD | DDD
Released in: 1996

LABEL:

Guild GmbH

Subcollection:

Piano

Composers:

ELGAR, Edward | GOOSSENS, Eugene

Interprets:

FILSELL, Jeremy (piano / organ) | LEWIS, Oliver (violin)

Other info:

Recorded at: Hillesden Church, Buckinghamshire, England - 1996

A Few months ago Guild Music issued “English Romanticism”, a collection of Violin Sonatas by Howard Ferguson, Eugene Goossens and John Ireland played by Oliver Lewis, violin, and Jeremy Filsell, piano (Guild GMCD 7120). The impact of the largely unknown First Violin Sonata by Eugene Goossens showed it to be a very great work. The success of this issue - critically and in terms of sales - was so marked that release plans for 1996 were changed in order to accommodate a follow-up album. This second CD, our new release this month, was recorded in May and is released in June!

This comprises the magnificent Violin Sonata by Edward Elgar, and the rest of Goossens’ complete works for violin and piano - not only his superb Violin Sonata No 2, but three other works, written for Heifetz, Sammons, Gruenberg and others.

The result is a revelation: the music of Eugene Goossens is here displayed before the record-buying public in a way which will come as a welcome and astonishing surprise for many - here is great music, powerful, romantic, emotionally direct and yet wholly original - all expressed within a musical language that is founded upon tradition. The performances have won the wholehearted approval of many admirers of English music of the period: the recordings are state-of-the-art, and the whole album is sure to garner even bigger sales and acclaim than its much-admired predecessor.