Special offer. Hugh Wood: Chamber Music
Paul Silverthorne (viola), Roger Heaton (clarinet)
London Archduke Trio
In all these pieces...we find craftsmanship raised to the highest level, a love of tradition that liberates rather than restricts the imagination, combined with a tender, yet exquisitely contained...
Special offer. Hugh Wood: Chamber Music
Paul Silverthorne (viola), Roger Heaton (clarinet)
London Archduke Trio
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In all these pieces...we find craftsmanship raised to the highest level, a love of tradition that liberates rather than restricts the imagination, combined with a tender, yet exquisitely contained...
About
Hugh Wood has been a prolific and eloquent broadcaster and writer on music as well as composer.
Already well-known and respected in new music circles, he first came to prominence with the premiere at the 1965 BBC Proms of his vocal-orchestral Scenes from Comus, after Milton.
Major works have included several concertos and a Symphony though it is chamber music he prefers, with its capacities for the intense and thoroughgoing working-out of ideas in polyphonic discourse.
His music is remarkably rich in suggestion, ranging from expressionism to poignant lyricism as well as exciting admiration through the quality of its craftsmanship.
‘… a composer whose “post-expressionism” is turning him fruitfully back towards still positive aspects of late Romanticism’ Arnold Whittall, Gramophone
Contents and tracklist
- Paul Silverthorne, Charles Wiffen
- Roger Heaton, Charles Wiffen
- Nathaniel Vallois, Charles Wiffen
- Roger Heaton
- London Archduke Trio, The
- London Archduke Trio, The
Awards and reviews
May 2010
In all these pieces...we find craftsmanship raised to the highest level, a love of tradition that liberates rather than restricts the imagination, combined with a tender, yet exquisitely contained poetic sensitivity...Expressively, technically and in terms of formal understanding these performances are excellent. Highly recommended.
July 2010
The most direct, sheerly beautiful offering, and the one with the biggest diatonic component, is the Poem for violin and piano...the characterful exponents [in the Clarinet Trio], Roger Heaton, Gabriella Swallow and Charles Wiffen, sound undaunted.
21st January 2010
This selection of Hugh Wood's chamber music with piano...ranges across almost the whole 50-year span of his composing career...The later music is more broad-minded than the earlier pieces...but the special combination of intellectual rigour and emotional directness that seems to energise each note has remained intact
