Cecil Coles, Gustav Holst: Piano Music

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Cecil Coles, Gustav Holst: Piano Music
James Willshire (piano)

[ Delphian / CD ]

Release Date: Friday 23 April 2021

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James Willshire's groundbreaking survey of Cecil Coles' piano music reveals a young Scottish composer finding his voice in pre-war Britain, France and Germany, a poignant and distinctive blend of 'happy-sad', as Nigel Osborne's perceptive notes describe it. After the war, Coles' close friend Gustav Holst's own work shows him returning to his fascination with folk music with 'fresh ears of almost shocking clarity', in harmonic experiments that parallel those of Bartók.

This gripping recital of 23 premiere recordings by James Willshire culminates in a compelling performance of Iain Farrington's new arrangement of one of Holst's orchestral masterpieces, a bleak, ambitious depiction of Thomas Hardy's 'untameable, inviolate' Egdon Heath….

Tracks:

Cecil Coles, Cecil Coles, Gustav holst: Variations on an Original Theme: Thema (Andante con moto)

Cecil Coles, Aaron Copland, Francis Poulenc, Sergei Prokofiev: Variations on an Original Theme

Cecil Coles, Aaron Copland, Francis Poulenc, Sergei Prokofiev: Five Sketches

Cecil Coles, Aaron Copland, Francis Poulenc, Sergei Prokofiev: Valse in D

Cecil Coles, Aaron Copland, Francis Poulenc, Sergei Prokofiev: Sonata in C Minor

Cecil Coles, Aaron Copland, Francis Poulenc, Sergei Prokofiev: Trianon Gavotte

Cecil Coles, Aaron Copland, Francis Poulenc, Sergei Prokofiev: Five Little Variations on an Original Theme

Cecil Coles, Aaron Copland, Francis Poulenc, Sergei Prokofiev: Triste et Gai, Op. 10

Gustav Holst, Aaron Copland, Francis Poulenc, Sergei Prokofiev: Toccata, H. 153

Gustav Holst, Aaron Copland, Francis Poulenc, Sergei Prokofiev: Folk Song Fragments, Op. 46 No. 2, H. 166

Gustav Holst, Aaron Copland, Francis Poulenc, Sergei Prokofiev: Chrissemas Day in the Morning, Op. 46 No. 1, H. 165

Gustav Holst, Aaron Copland, Francis Poulenc, Sergei Prokofiev: Two Pieces for Piano, H. 179

Gustav Holst, Aaron Copland, Francis Poulenc, Sergei Prokofiev: Egdon Heath: A Homage to Thomas Hardy, Op. 47, H. 172 (arr. Iain Farrington)