String Chamber Music

 
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IMOGEN HOLST
String Chamber Music
Simon Hewitt Jones (violin), David Worswick (violin), Tom Hankey (viola), Oliver Coates (cello), Thomas Hewitt Jones (cello), Daniel Swain (piano)

[ NMC Recordings / CD ]

Release Date: Friday 22 September 2017

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This award-winning album of first recordings of Imogen Holst's chamber works (originally released on the Court Lane Music label) is an important addition to the NMC catalogue, and a wonderful tribute to a significant 20th-century British composer. Stylistically, many of the works share a similar soundworld to early Tippett and Finzi, however during the 1930s Imogen heard Berg's Wozzeck in Vienna, which had a profound impact. Her Sonata for Violin and Cello, written during this time, explores a darker, more unsettling dissonance.

'An invaluable reminder of Imogen Holst's gifts as a composer' BBC Radio 3 Record Review

'A touching and beautifully presented tribute to a significant figure in 20th-century British music' The Guardian

'Music that reveals skill and a fertile imagination' Gramophone

'The recorded sound, full of presence and atmosphere, is state-of-the-art' BBC Music Magazine