The complete works for violin and piano
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YORK BOWEN
The complete works for violin and piano
Chloë Hanslip (violin) & Danny Driver (piano)
[ Hyperion / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Monday 29 April 2013
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Young virtuoso Chloë Hanslip and York Bowen specialist Danny Driver present Bowen's complete works for violin and piano. Many of these works have never been recorded or indeed published before, and have been excavated from the archives by Driver himself. This double album is therefore a valuable resource for admirers of a composer whom Hyperion has done so much to champion through recordings. This body of work includes juvenilia, miniatures (written with an eye to academic performance during Bowen's years as a professor at the Royal Academy of Music, but all impressive enough in quality to be concert works), his two Violin Sonatas, a Suite and a number of single-movement works. All show a superb composer of chamber music, a genuine original with a performer's ear.
"Violinist and pianist on this set do these minor pieces ideally, and full marks to Chloe Hanslip and Danny Drive for neither milking them sentimentally nor condescending to their simplicity by over-exaggeration." International Record Review, May 2013
"[Hanslip's] playing reminds me of some of the finest and most individual players of the past. There is an elegance and gallantry to her phrasing that cannot be taught or practiced - it's just there...In her performing colleague Danny Driver she has the ideal co-creator of musical magic...this is a superlative pair of discs. Bowen might not be a genius, but if ever a pair of performers were going to persuade me otherwise, this would be the team." MusicWeb International, 16th May 2013
"one idiomatic opportunity after another is seized on by Chloë Hanslip with panache, poise, and laser-like accuracy...My only reservation about these excellent performances concerns Danny Driver's accompaniments: superbly fluent and supportive, they're also perhaps a touch more self-effacing than they need to be." BBC Music Magazine, July 2013 ****
"there's a wholly infectious conviction, spontaneity and panache about these superbly accomplished performances that lend them special distinction. Chloe Hanslip plays with the most enviably sweet and subtly variegated tone...[Driver's] irreproachably eager and stylish pianism is a joy to encounter." Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine, July 2013
Tracks:
Sonata in E Minor for Violin and Piano, Op. 112
Allegretto, Op. 105
Suite for Violin & Piano, Op. 28
Melody for the G string, Op. 47
Phantasie in E minor, Op. 34
Song
Bolero
Melody
Albumleaf
Violin Sonata in B minor, Op. 7
Romance in D flat major
Serenade
Valse harmonique
