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Special offer. Huw Watkins: Works For Strings & Piano Trio

Rachel Roberts, Benjamin Nabarro, Leonore Piano Trio, Orchestra Nova, George Vass

Huw Watkins: Works For Strings & Piano Trio
This music may not set out to challenge the boldness and range of Watkins’s major vocal and orchestral scores. Yet there is no doubt that the same discriminating musical mind is at work in all...

Special offer. Huw Watkins: Works For Strings & Piano Trio

Rachel Roberts, Benjamin Nabarro, Leonore Piano Trio, Orchestra Nova, George Vass

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This music may not set out to challenge the boldness and range of Watkins’s major vocal and orchestral scores. Yet there is no doubt that the same discriminating musical mind is at work in all...

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Widely recognised as the leading Welsh composer of his generation, Huw Watkins is an increasingly prolific writer of works for chamber ensembles, alongside his distinguished career as a pianist. * Composed between 2009 and 2022, the five works featured on this disc take the listener on a fascinating journey through Watkins's recent musical evolution. * The acclaimed Leonore Piano Trio begin with the earliest of these works - the 2009 Piano Trio No. 1 - whilst conductor George Vass's Orchestra Nova brings us the Little Symphony for strings and exquisite Concertino for violin and strings, performed here by trio violinist Benjamin Nabarro. The trio is joined by violist Rachel Roberts for Watkins' luminous Piano Quartet, while the programme concludes with the 2022 Piano Trio No. 2 - written for the fortieth anniversary of the Presteigne Festival and premiered there by the Leonore Piano Trio.

Contents and tracklist

I. Allegro
Track length6:13
II. Lento
Track length7:07
III. Allegro molto
Track length4:50

Awards and reviews

June 2024

This music may not set out to challenge the boldness and range of Watkins’s major vocal and orchestral scores. Yet there is no doubt that the same discriminating musical mind is at work in all of them.

1st May 2024

Watkins never completely ditches tradition, and his material and textures remain fresh and ingenious whatever the instrumental forces. I’d single out for special praise the pungent account of his Little Symphony (Orchestra Nova conducted by George Vass) and the coruscating Piano Trio No 1 (Leonore Piano Trio). But every track brings satisfaction.
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