Enigmas: Solo Piano and Chamber Works
Elspeth Wyllie (piano), Claire Overbury (flute), Hetti Price (cello), Catherine Backhouse (mezzo), Alexa Beattie (viola)
Enigma works well and is accorded a natural voice that demands to be heard. The added works are also well worth your listening contemplation.
Enigmas: Solo Piano and Chamber Works
Elspeth Wyllie (piano), Claire Overbury (flute), Hetti Price (cello), Catherine Backhouse (mezzo), Alexa Beattie (viola)
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Enigma works well and is accorded a natural voice that demands to be heard. The added works are also well worth your listening contemplation.
About
A varied range of masterful works from English 20th century composers – some familiar and all major works of importance. Elgar composed his Enigma Variations at the piano; it was always suitable for a solo version and Elgar himself wrote this. Bowen’s Flute Sonata is well known – a Romantic staple – as is Leighton’s Elegy, which deserves to be better known. The piano solo work Folio I is lively and full of fun, while the two Sonnets of Rubbra are exquisitely gorgeous and absolutely essential listening.
Fine performances by pianist Elspeth Wyllie who is an accomplished soloist and chamber musician/accompanist, working throughout the UK and other countries. The young set of musicians here show exceptional talent and musicianship in the recorded works which are very varied yet make up a coherent concert album.
Contents and tracklist
- Elspeth Wyllie
- Hetti Price, Elspeth Wyllie
- Claire Overbury, Elspeth Wyllie
- Elspeth Wyllie
- Catherine Backhouse, Alexa Beattie, Elspeth Wyllie
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Excerpt from Elgar's Piano Version of the Enigma Variations
Awards and reviews
30th May 2017
Enigma works well and is accorded a natural voice that demands to be heard. The added works are also well worth your listening contemplation.
