Special offer. Britten: Reflections
Matthew Jones (violin and viola) & Annabel Thwaite (piano)
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2014, Chamber Choice
There isn't a single dud item here...Jones's playing of both instruments enthrals. His viola tone is different from the turbocharged massiveness of many of today's soloists; instead he searches...
Special offer. Britten: Reflections
Matthew Jones (violin and viola) & Annabel Thwaite (piano)
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Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2014, Chamber Choice
There isn't a single dud item here...Jones's playing of both instruments enthrals. His viola tone is different from the turbocharged massiveness of many of today's soloists; instead he searches...
About
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 première 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.
Contents and tracklist
- Matthew Jones, Annabel Thwaite
- Matthew Jones, Annabel Thwaite
- Matthew Jones, Annabel Thwaite
- Matthew Jones, Annabel Thwaite
- Matthew Jones, Annabel Thwaite
- Matthew Jones, Annabel Thwaite
- Matthew Jones, Annabel Thwaite
Awards and reviews
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BBC Music MagazineFebruary 2014Chamber Choice
February 2014
There isn't a single dud item here...Jones's playing of both instruments enthrals. His viola tone is different from the turbocharged massiveness of many of today's soloists; instead he searches out the instrument's capacity for gentle light and shade.
February 2014
Jones's performances here, well accompanied by Annabel Thwaite, are sometimes more expansive but have a sure feel for Britten's idiom. His playing of the Suite for violin and piano, Op. 6, is alive to its quick-fire kaleidoscope of styles...It is good of Naxos to give us Britten's solo violin and viola repertoire so neatly packaged.
