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The Dolmetsch Legacy: English Recorder Music

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Label: British Music Society

Cat No: BMS425CD

Barcode: 5060212960177

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 8th February 2010

Works

Jacob
Variations

Scott
Aubade

Rubbra
Sonatina Op.128

Rubbra
Passacaglia Sopra ‘Plusieurs Regrets’ Op.113

Rubbra
Meditazioni Sopra ‘Coeurs Desoles’ Op.67

Hopkins
Suite

Gardner
Little Suite in C Op.60

Hand
Sonata Breve

Reizenstein
Partita

Artists

Ross Winters (recorder)
Andrew Ball (piano)

Works

Artists

Ross Winters (recorder)
Andrew Ball (piano)

About

All the works recorded on this CD have direct associations with recorder pioneer and virtuoso Carl Dolmetsch (1911 - 1997), mainly through his vigorous efforts to encourage the establishment of a contemporary repertoire for the instrument.

On 1st February 1939, with Joseph Saxby at the harpsichord, Dolmetsch gave his first recorder recital at London’s Wigmore Hall. This included the “Theme and Variations” in A minor for descant recorder and harpsichord, a new composition by Dolmetsch himself. He had been keen to include a new work for recorder, but the absence of a significant contemporary repertoire led him to set about the task of composition himself, as much as anything to create an example he hoped others would soon follow.

Ross Winters read music at The Queen’s College, Oxford where he was an instrumental scholar, and subsequently studied with Walter van Hauwe at the Muzieklyceum, Amsterdam. In the early part of his career he appeared frequently on the South Bank and at the Wigmore Hall as a soloist and with early music ensembles. He has made several broadcasts for BBC Radio 3 of Baroque and 20th century music. His association with the music on this CD goes back a long way. At the age of 10 he performed the Antony Hopkins Suite in London for the Macnaughten Concerts, a society established to promote new music.

Andrew Ball has established a reputation as a pianist of remarkably wide sympathies and repertoire, both as soloist and as a chamber musician. He won scholarships to both Queen’s College, Oxford, where he read music, and to the Royal College of Music, where he studied with Kendall Taylor. Since his London debut at the Wigmore Hall, he has performed a hugely varied repertoire to great acclaim, with a passionate advocacy of 20th century music being a particular feature: he has given the premieres of works by composers such as Alfred Schnittke, Frederic Rzewski, Sofia Gubaidulina, Benedict Mason, Martin Butler, John Woolrich and James Wood. In 1999 he was appointed Head of Keyboard at the Royal College of Music.