Old City New Image: Chamber Music by McCabe & Ellis

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Release Date: 12th Apr 2019
Catalogue No: PFCD096
Label: Prima Facie
Length: 70 minutes

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McCabe, J: String Trio

Work length22:54

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Camerata Ensemble

I. Allegro con fuoco (1965)

Track length8:16

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II. Mesto - Andante soave - Andante - Allegretto - Vivo - Lento (1965)

Track length8:20

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III. Lento - Allegro giocoso (1965)

Track length6:18

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McCabe, J: String Quartet No. 2: I. Flessibile - Vivo - Largo - Deciso

Work length12:33

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Camerata Ensemble

Ellis, D: Trio for Violin, Viola and Cello

Work length15:11

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Camerata Ensemble

I. Allegretto grazioso

Track length1:44

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II. Elegy

Track length4:45

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III. Fantasy

Track length1:51

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IV. Chaconne

Track length4:57

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V. Toccata

Track length1:54

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Ellis, D: String Quartet No. 1

Work length19:41

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Camerata Ensemble

I. Allegro inquieto

Track length4:13

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II. Quasi presto

Track length2:43

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III. Lento

Track length7:24

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IV. Allegretto

Track length5:21

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John McCabe’s substantial String Trio, written in 1965 for the 60th birthday of Alan Rawsthorne is re-released by ASC Prima Facie, together with his String Quartet no.2 of 1972. These works, coupled with the Trio for Violin, Viola and Cello and String Quartet no.1 by David Ellis, were first recorded by the Camerata Ensemble and released in 2003.

McCabe and Ellis both came from the Liverpool area, and both attended the famous Liverpool Institute, at the top of Mount Street, in the shadow of the great Anglican Cathedral. Both composers studied with Thomas Pitfield at the Royal Manchester College of Music. Both won the Royal Philharmonic Prize.

While McCabe went on to have a dual career as composer and pianist, Ellis worked from 1964 at the BBC as a music producer, having responsibility for programme planning and administration of the BBC Northern, later Philharmonic, Orchestra. In 1977 he became Head of Music, BBC North. His Trio is also an early work, written in 1954 when he was 21.

His Quartet is the latest of the four works on the CD. It was commissioned by Alun Hoddinott for the Brodsky Quartet, and first performed at the Cardiff Festival of Music, December 1980. McCabe’s Quartet, numbered 2, is in fact the first in all but name, being preceded by a student work, Partita for String Quartet.

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