The Complete Solo Piano Music Of John Joubert

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The performances are fluent and powerful, alive to the full range of Joubert’s mercurial invention, whether in the jagged rhythms of the Bartókian Dance Suite (1958) and concentrated Sonata in... — International Piano, July 2019 More…

Release Date: 22nd Feb 2019
Catalogue No: PFCD097
Label: Prima Facie
Length: 79 minutes

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Joubert: Dance Suite, Op. 21

Work length9:56

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Duncan Honeybourne

I. Allegro ma non troppo

Track length1:26

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II. Adagio

Track length3:11

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III. Vivace

Track length1:21

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IV. Adagio con moto

Track length2:18

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V. Con spirito

Track length1:40

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Joubert: Piano Sonata No. 1 in one movement, Op. 24

Work length13:53

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Joubert: Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 71

Work length23:21

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Duncan Honeybourne

I. Moderato: Poco allegro

Track length7:09

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II. Presto - Poco lento - Presto

Track length6:12

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III. Poco lento - Allegro vivace - Meno mosso, maestoso - Tranquillo - Appassionato - Allegro agitato - Lento

Track length10:00

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Joubert: Lyric Fantasy on Themes from the Opera "Jane Eyre"

Work length9:55

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Joubert: Piano Sonata No. 3, Op. 157

Work length22:39

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I. Poco allegro appassionato

Track length5:25

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II. Lento e calmo - Allegro agitato - Lento e calmo

Track length11:35

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III. Alla marcia

Track length5:39

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Duncan Honeybourne writes:

“The spring of 2017 offered me a heartwarming opportunity to revisit the complete piano music of a composer who has been highly significant in my musical life. John Joubert celebrated his 90th birthday in March, an occasion I marked by presenting the cycle as an evening recital at the Birmingham and Midland Institute. This creative artist of trenchant expressive power, finely tuned eclecticism, visionary intensity and refined craftsmanship has, over some six decades, enriched the solo piano repertoire with a sequence of personal and dramatic essays: each of them with a distinctive individuality, yet charting a compelling and logical narrative when presented as a whole. The three piano sonatas constitute in themselves a major cycle, the triptych charting an instructive journey through different seasons of his career and musical mindset. Most striking for me as an omnipresent juxtaposition throughout the cycle is the irresistible coalescence of the violent and the consoling, the heart-stoppingly lyrical and the menacingly unsettling, the sumptuously tender and the bracingly aggressive. Rarely, if ever, have the percussive and the song-like attributes of the piano fused more organically, or to more dramatic - and beautiful - effect. The jagged rhythms of the irresistible early Dance Suite and the warm lines of the operatic Lyric Fantasy complement the cycle of sonatas very effectively.”

Musical Opinion magazine wrote of the recital thus: “Honeybourne brought both intellectual and physical stamina to these works whose demands offer so many rewards in terms of rhythmic vigour, melodic and harmonic generosity, and immense emotional release.”

Of the three sonatas: “the single-movement First almost improvisatory and Tippettian in its questing and leaping intervals, the Second limpidly, beautifully phrased and articulated by Honeybourne, the Third neo-Romantic in its rhetoric, and performed with a sense of rediscovery – as indeed was the entire recital….As throughout the entire programme, Honeybourne showed himself instinctively attuned to Joubert’s sense of structure and colour.”

It was at that 90th birthday concert that Joubert suggested Honeybourne might record the complete cycle of his piano music, a project now brought to joyful fruition by Prima Facie.

Duncan Honeybourne, the dedicatee of the Third Piano Sonata, has been closely associated with Joubert’s piano music for many years. Honeybourne met John Joubert whilst a student in Birmingham and, working extensively with the composer, went on to give the Irish première of the Second Piano Sonata and the London and Birmingham premières, as well as the first broadcast of the Lyric Fantasy. It was Joubert’s own suggestion that he compose a third piano sonata for Duncan; the work was completed in 2005 and premièred the following year.

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July 2019

The performances are fluent and powerful, alive to the full range of Joubert’s mercurial invention, whether in the jagged rhythms of the Bartókian Dance Suite (1958) and concentrated Sonata in one movement (1957), or the more melodic lines of the Lyric Fantasy. The two later sonatas require even greater virtuosity and these accounts are a match for their rivals.

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