The Planets (version for four hands, one piano) [with York Bowen - Suites]

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The Planets (version for four hands, one piano) [with York Bowen - Suites]
Fiona York, John York (piano)

[ Nimbus Records / CD ]

Release Date: Saturday 20 August 2011

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"These scores rejoice in the sonorities of the piano and they are laden with the richness of harmony and warmth of tone that is so characteristic of Bowen."
(International Record Review)

"[York2] create such magical, velvet-toned sonorities - especially potent in Venus and Saturn - that the senses are consistently beguiled. They also unearth all manner of ear-tweaking details which often lie hidden within the orchestra's assembled ranks. The unmistakably pianistic figurations of Bwen's piano duets come tripping off the fingers in these highly expert performances"
(Classic FM)

"The players conjure up a vast array of sonorities from the stabbing percussive writing of 'Mars', the central hymnal writing of 'Jupiter' - more ruminative and reflective than the norm - while its opening and closing pages present a virtuosic and intricate patchwork of diverse and wide-ranging figurations...These scores rejoice in the sonorities of the piano and they are laden with the richness of harmony and warmth of tone that is so characteristic of Bowen."
(International Record Review)

Tracks:

Bowen:
Suite in Three Movements Op. 52
Suite No. 2 (for 1 piano, 4 hands), Op. 71

Holst:
The Planets, Op. 32
Version for four hands at one piano by the composer