Composer: Gerard Schurmann
Performer: Randall Bills, Maxim Rubtsov, Mark Robson, Mikhail Korzhev
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0520
Release: 2019
Size: 1.15 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Chuench’i (Version for Voice & Piano)
01. No. 1, New Corn
02. No. 2, Plucking the Rushes
03. No. 3, Shang Ya!
04. No. 4, Flowers and Moonlight on the Spring River
05. No. 5, Look at That Little Bay of the Ch’i
06. No. 6, Self-Abandonment
07. No. 7, At the End of Spring
08. Moonbird (Performed on Flute)
4 Pastoral Preludes
09. No. 1, Bellac
10. No. 2, Grotto
11. No. 3, Rivulets
12. No. 4, Solitude
Sonatina for flute and piano
13. Flute Sonatina
Two Ballades for Piano: Homage to Janáček
14. No. 1, Hukvaldy
15. No. 2, Brno
Six Songs of William Blake
16. No. 1, Augury
17. No. 2, Ah, Sun-Flower
18. No. 3, I Laid Me Down upon a Bank
19. No. 4, Eternity
20. No. 5, The Sick Rose
21. No. 6, To the Evening Star
This fourth Toccata Classics album of the chamber music of Gerard Schurmann – born in the former Dutch East Indies in 1924, naturalised Briton and now a resident of Los Angeles – adds two major song-cycles (one of them written for Britten and Pears) and works for flute and piano to the mix, in a distinctly personal language derived from influences as distinct as Javanese gamelan to Bartók and Britten. Schurmann’s music somehow manages to blend elegant intensity and touching lyricism, with a result balanced between strength and sensitivity.