ID: NMCD236 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Holst, I:
Phantasy Quartet
Duo for Viola and Piano
String Trio No. 1
The Fall of the Leaf
Sonata for Violin and Cello
String Quintet
Simon Hewitt Jones, David Worswick, Tom Hankey, Oliver Coates, Thomas Hewitt Jones, Daniel Swain
One of NMC's commitments to new music is rescuing significant recordings that have been deleted.
Award-winning album of first recordings of Imogen Holst's chamber works (originally released on the Court Lane Music label)
Stylistically, many of the works share a similar soundworld to early Tippett and Finzi, however during the 1930s Imogen heard Berg's Wozzeck in Vienna, which had a profound impact.
Her Sonata for Violin and Cello, written during this time, explores a darker, more unsettling dissonance.
It is thanks to Imogen (and Colin Matthews) that NMC Recordings was created, back in 1989, with support from the Holst Foundation. |