Elgar: Violin Sonata - Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending & Violin Sonata / Pike, Roscoe
Details
- Composer
- ELGAR VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
- Artist
- Pike, Roscoe
- Format
- CD
- Label
- Chandos
- Released
- Aug 07, 2020
- Catalog #
- CHAN 20156
- UPC
- 095115215623
About
Following the success of her last album, The Polish Violin, Jennifer Pike now turns to a programme of English music that represents an essential part of her musical make-up. It was the music of Elgar that first drew her to the violin, and The Lark Ascending has featured in her programming - in many versions – throughout her career. Here we have the original version for Violin and Piano from 1914, much less frequently played than the ‘standard’ orchestral version, but fascinating for the new light it shines on such a well-known piece. Writing it against the backdrop of the First World War, Vaughan Williams took both inspiration and the title from a poem by George Meredith. Although his first sketches for a Violin Sonata date from 1887, Elgar’s Violin Sonata is one of the four late masterpieces that Elgar composed in 1918 – 19, at Brinkwells in Sussex in his final creative flush. As with The Lark, this work was composed under the shadow of the Great War. Like Elgar, Vaughan Williams wrote his only Violin Sonata towards the end of his life. Representing a culmination of the development of his compositional style, he weaves fantasy and pastoralism into the strictures of sonata form. Jennifer Pike is joined for this album by one of her regular musical partners, the pianist Martin Roscoe.
Tracklist 7 tracks
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1 I. Allegro: Risoluto 09:04
- Track
- 1
- Title
- I. Allegro: Risoluto
- Duration
- 09:04
- Composer
- Edward Elgar
- Performer
- Jennifer Pike, Martin Roscoe
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2 II. Romance: Andante 07:28
- Track
- 2
- Title
- II. Romance: Andante
- Duration
- 07:28
- Composer
- Edward Elgar
- Performer
- Jennifer Pike, Martin Roscoe
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3 III. Allegro non troppo 09:04
- Track
- 3
- Title
- III. Allegro non troppo
- Duration
- 09:04
- Composer
- Edward Elgar
- Performer
- Jennifer Pike, Martin Roscoe
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4 I. Fantasia: Allegro giusto 09:09
- Track
- 4
- Title
- I. Fantasia: Allegro giusto
- Duration
- 09:09
- Composer
- Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Performer
- Jennifer Pike, Martin Roscoe
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5 II. Scherzo: Allegro furioso ma non troppo 06:11
- Track
- 5
- Title
- II. Scherzo: Allegro furioso ma non troppo
- Duration
- 06:11
- Composer
- Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Performer
- Jennifer Pike, Martin Roscoe
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6 III. Tema Con Variazioni: Andante - Tempo del preludio ma tranquillo - Cadenza 11:28
- Track
- 6
- Title
- III. Tema Con Variazioni: Andante - Tempo del preludio ma tranquillo - Cadenza
- Duration
- 11:28
- Composer
- Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Performer
- Jennifer Pike, Martin Roscoe
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7 The Lark Ascending (version for violin and piano) 14:18
- Track
- 7
- Title
- The Lark Ascending (version for violin and piano)
- Duration
- 14:18
- Composer
- Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Performer
- Jennifer Pike, Martin Roscoe