Special offer. Imogen Holst: String Chamber Music
Simon Hewitt Jones, David Worswick, Tom Hankey, Oliver Coates, Thomas Hewitt Jones, Daniel Swain
Awards:
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
It defies belief that until this recording led by violinist and cellist Simon and Thomas Hewitt Jones appeared much of this fine music, combining haunting Englishness with a distinctly French...
Special offer. Imogen Holst: String Chamber Music
Simon Hewitt Jones, David Worswick, Tom Hankey, Oliver Coates, Thomas Hewitt Jones, Daniel Swain
Purchase product
Awards:
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
It defies belief that until this recording led by violinist and cellist Simon and Thomas Hewitt Jones appeared much of this fine music, combining haunting Englishness with a distinctly French...
About
One of NMC's commitments to new music is rescuing significant recordings that have been deleted.
Award-winning album of first recordings of Imogen Holst's chamber works (originally released on the Court Lane Music label)
Stylistically, many of the works share a similar soundworld to early Tippett and Finzi, however during the 1930s Imogen heard Berg's Wozzeck in Vienna, which had a profound impact.
Her Sonata for Violin and Cello, written during this time, explores a darker, more unsettling dissonance.
It is thanks to Imogen (and Colin Matthews) that NMC Recordings was created, back in 1989, with support from the Holst Foundation.
Contents and tracklist
- Simon Hewitt Jones, David Worswick, Tom Hankey, Oliver Coates
- Tom Hankey, Daniel Swain
- Recorded: August 2007
- Simon Hewitt Jones, Tom Hankey, Oliver Coates
- Recorded: August 2017
- Thomas Hewitt Jones
- Recorded: August 2007
- Simon Hewitt Jones, Oliver Coates
- Recorded: August 2007
- Simon Hewitt Jones, David Worswick, Tom Hankey, Oliver Coates, Thomas Hewitt Jones
- Recorded: August 2007
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Awards and reviews
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The Times Records of the Year2017
Christmas 2017
It defies belief that until this recording led by violinist and cellist Simon and Thomas Hewitt Jones appeared much of this fine music, combining haunting Englishness with a distinctly French flavour, was virtually unknown.
