John Joubert - The Complete Solo Piano Music - Prima Facie: PFCD162 - 2 CDs or download

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Release Date: 10th Sep 2021
Catalogue No: PFCD162
Label: Prima Facie
Length: 1 hour 41 minutes

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

Work length13:54

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Duncan Honeybourne (piano)

Joubert: Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 71

Work length23:21

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Duncan Honeybourne (piano)

I. Poco allegro (Moderato)

Track length7:10

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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 length9:59

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Joubert: Piano Sonata No. 3, Op. 157

Work length22:40

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Duncan Honeybourne (piano)

I. Poco allegro appassionato

Track length5:26

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II. Poco allegro appassionato

Track length11:36

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III. Alla marcia

Track length5:38

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Joubert: Evocations: A Rhapsody for Piano

Work length21:51

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Duncan Honeybourne (piano)

Joubert: Dance Suite

Work length9:57

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Duncan Honeybourne (piano)

I. Allegro ma non troppo

Track length1:26

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II. Adagio

Track length3:12

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III. Vivace

Track length1:22

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IV. Adagio con moto

Track length2:18

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V. Con spirito

Track length1:39

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Joubert: Lyric Fantasy for piano, Op. 144 on themes from the opera Jane Eyre

Work length9:47

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Duncan Honeybourne (piano)

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Duncan Honeybourne's recording of Joubert's piano music was first released by Prima Facie in February 2019, a few weeks after the composer's death. Honeybourne, a close friend of Joubert and the dedicatee of the Third Piano Sonata, had studied the works with the composer, who asked him to record his piano music and described his pre-release copy of the disc as "one of my most prized possessions." The recital charted a chronological journey through Joubert's complete published solo piano music, from the bracing Dance Suite, written in John's twenties, to the transcendental musings of the Third Piano Sonata, composed when he was almost eighty.

This second edition also offers something extra: a remarkable work from Joubert's years as a student at the Royal Academy of Music. In December 2020 Joubert's daughter Anna discovered the manuscript of Evocations, a rhapsody for piano, which John had written at the age of 22. Howard Ferguson, one of John's composition professors, gave the work its first performance at the RAM in 1950, but this student work was quickly shelved as Joubert achieved international renown for his ever-growing output of masterpieces.

Honeybourne writes: "The strong personality I knew so well from Joubert's later work jumped vividly and unmistakably off the page. I was astonished at the maturity and assurance of the writing, the fluency of the invention and the technical ingenuity with which the one-movement structure was knitted together. I felt that we should add Evocations to my existing recording of Joubert's piano music, to offer a truly complete conspectus of this very distinctive composer's writing for solo piano. This new set of two discs is the result."

The first edition of The Complete Solo Piano Music of John Joubert was awarded 5 stars in Musical Opinion and featured as a Recommended Recording on Austrian Radio (ORF) in 2020. "glittering performances from Duncan Honeybourne...it is not hard to hear why Joubert was drawn to his playing." International Piano, 2019

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