Composer: Herbert Howells
Performer: Matthew Schellhorn
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Naxos
Catalogue: 8571383
Release: 2022
Size: 1.11 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Comme le cerf soupire…
02. The Arab’s Song
03. To a Wild Flower
04. Romance
05. Melody
06. Legend
07. The Chosen Tune
08. A Mersey Tune
Country Pageant
09. I. Merry Andrew’s Procession
10. II. Kings and Queens
11. III. There Was a Most Beautiful Lady
12. IV. The Mummers’ Dance
A Little Book of Dances
13. I. Minuet
14. II. Gavotte
15. III. Pavane
16. IV. Galliard
17. V. Rigadoon
18. VI. Jig
19. A Sailor Tune
3 Tunes for Piano
20. No. 1, Walking Tune
21. No. 2, Country Tune
22. No. 3, Trumpet Tune
23. Minuet for Ursula
24. Promenade for Girls
25. Promenade for Boys
26. Et nunc et semper
Piano Sonatina (Ed. M. Schellhorn)
27. I. Vivo. Inquieto
28. II. Quasi adagio. Serioso ma teneramente
29. III. Agile, destro, sempre veloce
In the first volume of this series, Matthew Schellhorn surveyed six decades of Herbert Howells’ compositions for the piano. This second volume reprises the journey, tracing the composer’s stylistic development from the charming poetic miniatures of his youth through to the resonant modal quirkiness of his later dances.
The survey includes a centrally important work, the Sonatina of 1971, performed here in Schellhorn’s own edition compiled from the manuscript sources, which includes variants not heard for half a century.