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Howells - Piano Music Vol.1 | Naxos 8571382

Howells - Piano Music Vol.1

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8571382

Barcode: 0747313138272

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 10th July 2020

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About

With this album, Matthew Schellhorn sheds new light on Herbert Howells as a truly significant 20th-century composer for the piano. From the charming Summer Idyls, written before the composer began studies at the Royal College of Music, to the mature and subtle movements of the Petrus Suite, we encounter an extraordinary range of pianistic expression. Spanning over 60 years of Howells’s compositional style, every track on this release is a world premiere recording.

Awareness of Howells’s music for keyboard has until now rarely gone beyond his lovely collections Lambert’s Clavichord and Howells’ Clavichord. The sheer range of the pieces in this first volume reveals new dimensions to Howells’s expressive range and the depth of his response to the death of his friend the composer Gerald Finzi, and of course to the tragic loss of his son Michael.

Described as a pianist of ‘searching intelligence and magnificent technique’, British pianist Matthew Schellhorn has a distinctive profile displaying consistent artistic integrity and a commitment to bringing new music to a wider audience. He has recorded songs by Geoffrey Bush and Joseph Horovitz (8571378) with soprano Susanna Fairbairn, and was admired by the American Record Guide for ‘sensitivity and a feeling for the texts’.

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