Composer: Hugh Wood
Performer: Paul Silverthorne, Roger Heaton, London Archduke Trio
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0075
Release: 2010
Size: 262 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Piano Trio, Op. 48
01. Overture
02. Variations, Op. 1
03. Paraphrase on Bird of Paradise, Op. 26
04. Poem, Op. 35
Clarinet Trio, Op. 40
05. I. Comodo
06. II. Fantastico
07. III. Adagio
Piano Trio, Op. 24
08. I. Allegro appassionato
09. II. Adagio molto calmo e mesto
10. III. Vivace scherzando
Hugh Wood has been a prolific and eloquent broadcaster and writer on music as well as composer.
Already well-known and respected in new music circles, he first came to prominence with the premiere at the 1965 BBC Proms of his vocal-orchestral Scenes from Comus, after Milton.
Major works have included several concertos and a Symphony though it is chamber music he prefers, with its capacities for the intense and thoroughgoing working-out of ideas in polyphonic discourse.
His music is remarkably rich in suggestion, ranging from expressionism to poignant lyricism as well as exciting admiration through the quality of its craftsmanship.
‘… a composer whose “post-expressionism” is turning him fruitfully back towards still positive aspects of late Romanticism’ Arnold Whittall, Gramophone