Composer: John Joubert
Performer: Lesley-Jane Rogers, John Turner, Richard Tunnicliffe, John McCabe
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0045
Release: 2007
Size: 258 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
The Hour Hand, Op. 101
01. I. The Hour Hand
02. II. Cock round the Clock
03. III. Winter Sun
04. IV. Low Tide
05. V. Horizontal Beams
Shropshire Hills, Op. 155
06. I. Shropshire Hills
07. II. Early Spring in the Marches
08. III. Clun Forest
09. Improvisation, Op. 120
10. Kontakion, Op. 69
The Rose is Shaken in the Wind, Op. 137
11. I. Spring Day in Arrowtown
12. II. Tombstone Song
13. III. The Gardener’s Song
14. IV. The Rose Is Shaken in the Wind
6 poems by Emily Bronte, Op. 63
15. No. 1, Harp
16. No. 2, Sleep
17. No. 3, Oracle
18. No. 4, Storm
19. No. 5, Caged Bird
20. No. 6, Immortality
The music of John Joubert – born in 1927 in Cape Town, a student at the Royal Academy of Music in London in the 1940s and ’50s, and Birmingham-based since 1962 – has a strong sense of melody, his beguiling lyricism combining with an acute sensitivity to words to produce songs that are both colourful and evocative. These four song-cycles pay tribute to the places and poets that inspired them. And his chamberworks, drawing on a rich instrumental palette and haunting melodic lines, are memorable and dramatically effective.