Britten: Reflections

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
November 19, 2013
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BRITTEN
    • PERFORMER
      Annabel Thwaite, Matthew Jones
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 19, 2013
    • UPC
      747313313679
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8573136
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Instrumental
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Introduction: Andante maestoso

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Matthew Jones, Annabel Thwaite

    2. II. March: Allegro alla marcia

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Matthew Jones, Annabel Thwaite

    3. III. Moto perpetuo: Allegro molto e con fuoco

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Matthew Jones, Annabel Thwaite

    4. IV. Lullaby: Lento tranquillo

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Matthew Jones, Annabel Thwaite

    5. V. Waltz: Alla valse, vivace e rubato

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Matthew Jones, Annabel Thwaite

    6. Reflection

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Matthew Jones, Annabel Thwaite

    7. Reveille

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Matthew Jones, Annabel Thwaite

    8. Elegy

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Matthew Jones

    9. No. 1. The Moon

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Matthew Jones, Annabel Thwaite

    10. No. 2. Going Down Hill on a Bicycle (A Boy's Song)

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Matthew Jones, Annabel Thwaite

    11. Etude

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Matthew Jones

    12. There is a Willow Grows Aslant a Brook (arr. B. Britten for viola and piano)

      Composer: Frank Bridge

      Performer: Matthew Jones, Annabel Thwaite

    13. Valse in B Major

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Matthew Jones, Annabel Thwaite

    14. Lachrymae, Op. 48, "Reflections on a Song of John Dowland"

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Matthew Jones, Annabel Thwaite


Benjamin Britten was a viola player as well as a pianist and wrote a significant body of chamber music for stringed instruments. The works on this recording - which contains important world premiere recordings - were written between 1925 and 1937, with the exception of the masterpiece for viola, Lachrymae. Each reveals some characteristic aspect of Britten's voice, from the variety and wit of the Suite for Violin and Piano, Op. 6 to the little-known but absorbingly imaginative Reveille and the remarkably assured 1930 Elegy, written when he was just seventeen.