The music on this EP inhabits a particular corner of the bounteous repertory of characteristic pieces for violin and piano. Short without being slight, these miniatures are vibrant and emotive, getting to the heart of the matter with freshness and originality, and sharing a rich yet restrained harmonic language which is identifiably English in character.
‘Walking along the darken’d valley,
With silent melancholy’
William Blake, from ‘Memory, hither come’
TRACK LIST
Richard Rodney Bennett (1936 – 2012)
1. Momento
Rebecca Clarke (1886 – 1979)
2. Clarke: Midsummer Moon
Frank Bridge (1879 – 1941)
3. Bridge: Cradle Song, H. 96
Cyril Scott (1879 – 1970)
4. Scott: Deux préludes: I. Poème érotique
Roger Quilter (1877 – 1953)
5. Quilter: Three Songs of William Blake, Op. 20: I. Dream Valley
Angela Morely (1924 – 2009)
6. Morely: Réverie
