Echoes of Land & Sea

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Her playing has a combined energy, verve, and technical precision that does all it can to search out the character of each item on her programme…the most memorable experience here, by far, comes... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 1st Sep 2017
Catalogue No: SOMMCD0174
Label: Somm
Length: 72 minutes

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Britten: Holiday Diary Op. 5 for solo piano

Work length15:05

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Maria Marchant

I. Early Morning Bathe

Track length2:01

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II. Sailing

Track length4:46

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III. Fun-Fair

Track length2:47

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IV. Night

Track length5:31

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Stevenson, R: Peter Grimes Fantasy on Themes from Britten

Work length7:42

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Maria Marchant

Ireland: Ballade of London Nights

Work length5:56

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Maria Marchant

Ireland: Sea Fever (Arr. R. Williams for Piano)

Work length3:33

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Maria Marchant

Williams, Roderick: Goodwood-by-the-Sea

Work length3:31

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Maria Marchant

Leighton: 6 Studies, Op. 56 "Study-Variations"

Work length16:31

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Maria Marchant

No. 1, Adagio molto

Track length2:55

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No. 2, Allegro molto e secco, molto ritmico

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No. 3, Adagio molto, misterioso ma molto espressivo

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No. 4, Allegro leggierro e cappricioso

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No. 5, Allegro molto, nervosa

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No. 6, Presto con bravura

Track length3:37

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Holst: Toccata, H. 153

Work length2:38

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Maria Marchant

Holst: Christmas Day, H109

Work length2:23

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Maria Marchant

Holst: Folk Song Fragments, Op. 46 No. 2, H. 166

Work length3:01

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Maria Marchant

No. 1, O I Hae Seen the Roses Blaw

Track length2:09

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No. 2, The Shoemaker

Track length0:52

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Holst: Nocturne, H. 179

Work length3:36

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Maria Marchant

Holst: Jig, H. 179

Work length2:46

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Maria Marchant

Holst: Brook Green Suite

Work length6:13

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Maria Marchant

I. Prelude. Allegretto

Track length1:37

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II. Air. Andante - Poco animato

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III. Dance. Allegro

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This cleverly planned new recital represents a uniquely valuable addition to the catalogue and focuses attention on English piano music which is less well known but no less delectable. Our programme ranges from some of the most famous names in music to those best-known in other areas of the art - and has been carefully chosen to present a uniquely fascinating conspectus of piano music by British composers of the last 100 years. There are such rarities as Benjamin Britten's brilliant early suite 'Holiday Diary', the great composer in lighter mood, and the magnificent virtuoso set of Six Studies for Piano by Kenneth Leighton, alongside a rare collection of Impressionist pieces by Gustav Holst - showing him to be as much a master of the keyboard as his 'Planets' suite is of the orchestra. John Ireland (Britten's teacher) is represented by his haunting Ballade of London Nights, and we have a significant premiere recording of Ireland's most famous song - Sea Fever - arranged for solo piano by Roderick Williams, best-known as one of the finest of all living British singers, now appearing on disc in a new light. Both the world premiere Goodwood-by-the-Sea and the piano arrangement of Sea Fever were written by Roderick Williams especially for Maria Marchant and dedicated to her. Ronald Stevenson's 'Peter Grimes Fantasy' takes us back to Benjamin Britten - a wonderful homage from one major British composer to another.

Also included here, is another valuable first recording, Vally Lasker's arrangement of Holst's delightful Brook Green Suite. Lasker taught music at St Paul's Girls' School, Hammersmith as assistant to Holst, who was also head of music. She has arranged several of Holst's as well as Vaughan Williams's works for piano.

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December 2017

Her playing has a combined energy, verve, and technical precision that does all it can to search out the character of each item on her programme…the most memorable experience here, by far, comes in Williams’s ‘free transcription’ of Ireland’s immortal song ‘Sea Fever’ – arranged with wonderful keyboard imagination (this from one of our leading baritones!), and delivered by Marchant with a richness of musicianship that haunts the memory.

24th September 2017

Marchant excels in both [the Holst and the Britten] but is most impressive in Kenneth Leighton’s Six Studies Op 56, from 1969, displaying cool control in the monolithic chordal movements and great dexterity in the highly complex contrapuntal sections.

Classical Ear September 2017

What tingling hush and concentration Marchant brings to the concluding ‘Night’ from Britten’s youthful Holiday Diary, and how deftly she showcases a sequence of six Holst piano works composed between 1924 and 1932.

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