Tovey: Chamber Music, Vol. 3 - Complete Cello Sonatas / Neary, Gould, Dowdeswell

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Label
Toccata
Release Date
August 5, 2022
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Sir Donald Tovey
    • PERFORMER
      Alice Neary, Kate Gould, Gretel Dowdeswell
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 05, 2022
    • UPC
      5060113444974
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      TOCC0497
    • LABEL
      Toccata
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Allegro

      Composer: Donald Francis Tovey

      Performer: Alice Neary, Kate Gould

    2. II. Andante maestoso e sostenuto

      Composer: Donald Francis Tovey

      Performer: Alice Neary, Kate Gould

    3. III. Fuga: Allegretto giocoso

      Composer: Donald Francis Tovey

      Performer: Alice Neary, Kate Gould

    4. Prelude in C Minor, BWV 999 (arr. D.F. Tovey for cello and piano)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Alice Neary, Gretel Dowdeswell

    5. I. Allegro con brio ma largamente

      Composer: Donald Francis Tovey

      Performer: Alice Neary

    6. II. Allegretto, un poco agitato, ma sempre piano

      Composer: Donald Francis Tovey

      Performer: Alice Neary

    7. III. Passacaglia

      Composer: Donald Francis Tovey

      Performer: Alice Neary

    8. I. Allegrissimo

      Composer: Donald Francis Tovey

      Performer: Alice Neary, Gretel Dowdeswell

    9. II. Andante cantabile

      Composer: Donald Francis Tovey

      Performer: Alice Neary, Gretel Dowdeswell

    10. III. Finale: Vivace giocoso ma non presto

      Composer: Donald Francis Tovey

      Performer: Alice Neary, Gretel Dowdeswell


Sir Donald Tovey (1875–1940), long hailed as one of the finest writers on music in English, saw himself primarily as a composer. His occasionally turbulent friendship with Pau Casals was the spur for a monumental concerto and one of three sonatas: for solo cello, two cellos and cello with piano. The cello was the ideal instrument for Tovey’s Brahmsian musical language, with its long, singing lines unfolding in effortless counterpoint – though the huge passacaglia that ends the solo sonata also demands a virtuoso technique. The brief Bach arrangement recorded here for the first time arose when the twelve-year-old Tovey added a cello line to one of Bach’s best-known preludes, originally for lute.