Dream Shadows - Works for Violin & Piano - EM Records: EMRCD030 - CD or download

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Release Date: 3rd Jul 2015
Catalogue No: EMRCD030
Label: EM Records
Length: 75 minutes

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Somervell: Two Conversations About Bach for 2 Violins and Piano

Work length7:40

$2.00

$2.60

Rupert Marshall-Luck, Matthew Rickard

I. Adagio e con molto espressivo

Track length4:59

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$1.30

II. Andante con moto

Track length2:41

$1.00

$1.30

Kelly, F: Violin Sonata in G Major 'Gallipoli'

Work length29:34

$7.00

$9.00

Rupert Marshall-Luck, Matthew Rickard

I. Allegro non troppo

Track length11:42

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$3.85

II. Adagio con moto

Track length11:37

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$3.85

III. Ground. Allegro non troppo

Track length6:15

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$1.30

Bax: Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano, GP 171 / 248

Work length37:53

$9.00

$11.60

Rupert Marshall-Luck, Matthew Rickard

I. Fantasy (Slow and Gloomy)

Track length8:30

$2.00

$2.60

II. The Grey Dancer in the Twilight (Fast Valse Measure)

Track length6:14

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III. Very Broad and Concentrated (But Extremely Expressive)

Track length12:11

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$3.85

IV. Allegro feroce

Track length10:58

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‘Dream Shadows’ features the World Première recording of Frederick Septimus Kelly’s ‘Gallipoli’ Sonata for violin and piano. Kelly was born in 1881 in Australia and first came to the United Kingdom when he began his schooling at Eton College. Although a notable rower – he won a Gold Medal for Britain in the 1908 London Olympic Games – he was also a highly gifted composer. His Violin Sonata in G major was written for the violinist Jelly d’Aranyi and was composed in 1915 in Kelly’s tent at Gallipoli, hence the work’s appellation. Kelly wrote the Sonata not to express explicitly the horrors of war but rather to articulate his memories of the country in which he had spent his formative years and which had fostered his intellectual and creative development. In many respects it represents a farewell to a way of life; but it was also Kelly’s own farewell to d’Aranyi. The composer was killed on the Somme in 1916 and d’Aranyi later affirmed that, on the night he died, she heard the Sonata being played as if from a great distance.

This recording of the Gallipoli Sonata is, therefore, not only a fitting tribute to Kelly’s memory, but is also a commemoration of all those whose gifts and talents have been wasted by war.

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