On The Winds of English Melody - Victoria Soames Samek,John Flinders
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$23.99
- SKU: 41490
- Availability: In Stock
- Label(s): Clarinet Classics
- Year of release: 2006
- Recording length: 73:19
- Composer Charles Villiers Stanford, Ralph Vaughan Williams, John Ireland, Arthur Bliss
- Performer Victoria Soames, John Flinders
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- Victoria brings her beautifully refined sound and profound understanding to these cornerstones of the English clarinet repertoire. For this important and highly attractive disc, Victoria is joined by the distinguished pianist John Flinders.
"This latest disc from an attractive label is a celebration of clarinet music written in the first half of the century…. John Ireland's Fantasy Sonata, a suave, wistful single movement….. beautifully played."
The Sunday Times
John Ireland (1879-1962)
Fantasy Sonata.
Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
Sonata for Clarinet & Piano.
Malcolm Henry Arnold (b.1921)
Sonatina.
Gerald Finzi (1901-56)
Five Bagatelles.
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Six Studies on English Folk Songs.
Arthur Bliss (1891-1975)
Pastoral.
Victoria Soames Samek - clarinet
John Flinders - piano
For her latest recording, Victoria Soames Samek has chosen British works from the first half of the 20th century. Having produced few notable composers in the previous century, British music saw a sudden flowering in a new generation of composers. Victoria's recital features music from some of the outstanding composers of this generation.
Ireland's magical Fantasy Sonata
Finzi's ever popular Five Bagatelles
Vaughan Williams - Studies on English Folk Songs
Stanford - Sonata; inspired by the great Richard Muhlfeld's playing of Brahms
Arnold's jazzy Sonatina
Bliss' romantic Pastoral
On The Winds of English Melody - Victoria Soames Samek,John Flinders - 41490 - Symphony & Chamber Music