Performer: Chamber Ensemble of London, Margaret Fingerhut, Gabriella Dall’olio, Peter Cigleris, Judith Hall, Michael Stowe
Conductor: Peter Fisher
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Somm
Catalogue: SOMMCD0653
Release: 2022
Size: 1.32 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Jenkins: Pieces for Oboe & Strings
01. No. 1, Pastorale. Andante
02. No. 2, Air. Adagio
03. No. 3, Scherzo. Giocoso
04. Finzi: Eclogue, Op. 10
05. Shearman: Venice in the Rain
Ridout: Concertino for flute and strings
06. I.
07. II.
08. III.
09. Lloyd Webber: Frensham Pond (Aquarelle) for clarinet and piano (from Country Impressions) (1960)
10. Binge: The Water Mill
Parish-Alvars: Concertino in E Minor, Op. 34
11. II. Romanza
12. McDowall: Y Deryn Pur (The Gentle Dove)
13. Shearman: Seventeen Going on Eighteen
14. Horovitz: Concertante for clarinet & strings
15. Milford: Mr John Peel Passes By
Jenkins: Piano Concertino
16. I. Allegro
17. II. Moderato
18. III. Allegro
A collection of British chamber music from the 19th to the 21st centuries including nine first recordings.
Receiving first recordings are two works by Clive Jenkins – his Piano Concertino of 2018, performed by its dedicatee, Margaret Fingerhut; and Three Pieces for Oboe especially arranged by the composer for this recital – and the recently deceased Joseph Horovitz’s Concertante for Clarinet and Strings. Also new to disc are Alan Ridout’s three-part Concertino for Flute and Strings, Cecilia McDowall’s Y deryn pur (“The gentle dove”), two extracts from Don Shearman’s Eine Kleine Leichtmusik and a new arrangement by Peter Cigleris of Frensham Pond from William Lloyd Webber’s Country Impressions.
Among the rarities featured are the Romance from Elias Parish Alvars’ Concertino for Harp and Orchestra, and Robin Milford’s Mr John Peel Passes By, alongside Ronald Binge’s ever-popular The Watermill, familiar to television viewers as the theme for a BBC adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden.