In the Wake of the Great War: Benjamin Martin

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Release Date: 10th Nov 2014
Catalogue No: MR301146
Label: Melba Recordings
Length: 62 minutes

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Delius: Preludes (3) for piano

Work length3:29

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Benjamin Martin

I. Scherzando

Track length1:34

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II. Quick

Track length0:48

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III. Con moto

Track length1:07

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Bax: Third Sonata in G-Sharp Minor

Work length24:21

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Benjamin Martin

I. Allegro moderato

Track length10:07

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II. Lento moderato

Track length7:49

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III. Allegro

Track length6:25

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Vaughan Williams: Hymn-tune Prelude on Song 13 by Orlando Gibbons

Work length4:04

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Benjamin Martin

Bridge: Sonata for Piano

Work length27:48

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Benjamin Martin

I. Lento ma non troppo - Andante ben moderato - Allegro energico

Track length12:41

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II. Andante ben moderato

Track length6:50

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III. Lento - Allegro ma non troppo

Track length8:17

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Chaplin, C: Smile from 'Modern Times'

Work length2:22

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Benjamin Martin

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One of Australia’s brightest stars of the piano, Benjamin Martin makes his remarkable debut solo recording with Melba Recordings, a disc of rarely heard works by English composers far better known for their orchestral music: Delius, Vaughan Williams, Bax and Bridge.

All the pieces were written in the years 1921-1930 - ‘In the Wake of the Great War’. As Michael Quinn remarks in his liner notes: “It is tempting to hear the works featured on this disc as responses to the palpable sense of entropy then enveloping Britain whose great news had been robbed by the Great War.” Two lengthy sonatas, by Arnold Bax and Frank Bridge, are interleaved with the three Preludes of Frederick Delius and Ralph Vaughan Williams’ ‘Hymn-tune Prelude on Song 13 by Orlando Gibbons’.

Also included is the world premiere recording of Benjamin Martin’s arrangement of Charlie Chaplin’s ‘Smile’ from his ‘silent’ 1936 film ‘Modern Times’, the last outing on screen of his indomitable Tramp character, and Chaplin’s reaction to the revolutionary social and economic changes that had occurred since the end of the First World War.

The repertoire is an example of Martin’s insightful and imaginative programming which regularly draws comment from international commentators (“A distinctive choice...the pieces were cast in an arresting pan-modernist style” - New York Times).

The album follows Benjamin Martin’s two critically acclaimed Melba CDs as an associate artist: ‘Arcadia Lost’ (MR301131), on which he performs Vaughan Williams’ ‘On Wenlock Edge’ with tenor Steve Davislim, and ‘Encore My Good Sir!’ (MR301116), a recital with horn player, Lin Jiang.

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