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Vaughan Williams - On Wenlock Edge, Piano Quintet in C minor, Romance & Pastorale

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Label: Chandos

Cat No: CHAN10465

Barcode: 0095115146521

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 31st March 2008

Works

Vaughan Williams, Ralph

On Wenlock Edge
Piano Quintet in C minor
Romance and Pastorale

Artists

Mark Padmore (tenor)
Schubert Ensemble

Works

Vaughan Williams, Ralph

On Wenlock Edge
Piano Quintet in C minor
Romance and Pastorale

Artists

Mark Padmore (tenor)
Schubert Ensemble

About

On Wenlock Edge is a song cycle for tenor, piano and string quartet, published in 1909, setting six poems from A.E. Housman’s 'A Shropshire Lad'. Although there have been a number of recordings of this song cycle recently, this disc features the remarkable voice of Mark Padmore and uniquely adds the early Piano Quintet in C minor, recently released for performance by the composer’s widow and published in 2002, and also the Romance and Pastorale, two similarly early, brief lyric pieces for violin and piano published in 1923.

The Quintet was written for piano, violin, viola, cello and double-bass – as was Schubert’s ‘Trout’ Quintet. It is a wonderful early work, full of passion and melodic invention.

This recording marks the Schubert Ensemble’s debut on Chandos and also its 25th anniversary. The Ensemble has always been at the forefront of British chamber music performance and is now firmly established as one of the world’s leading exponents of music for piano and strings.

Classic FM Magazine has written, ‘The Schubert Ensemble of London are a marvellously unified ensemble, imparting their energy and lyricism to anything to which they turn their expert hands’, while Fanfare recently commented, ‘The performances by The Schubert Ensemble are exactly what the music requires – they fizzle with energy and pep’.