York Bowen Video
Compositore e pianista inglese (1884-1961)
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Ivor Gurney Adolf Busch Busch Carl Flesch Hamilton Harty John Barbirolli Manley Boyd Neel Frank Bridge Benjamin Britten John Ireland Beethoven Ralph Vaughan Williams Lark Bach Henry Purcell Dvořák Arthur Benjamin Benjamin Dale Lennox Berkeley Kenneth Leighton Edmund Rubbra York Bowen Howard Ferguson Arthur Bliss Béla Bartók Handel Rachmaninoff Smetana Arnold Bax Yehudi Menuhin London Symphony Orchestra Aeolian Quartet Salzburg Festival Proms 1686 1697 1718 1908 1909 1911 1927 1930 1935 1936 1937 1938 1940 1942 1947 1952 1963 1966 1978 1979 1987
The Apple Orchard by Ivor Gurney, Frederick Grinke - Violin Ivor Newton - Piano Recorded in 1942. The Apple Orchard is one of two short pieces written for violin and piano by Ivor Gurney that were published posthumously in 1940. Frederick Grinke CBE (8 August 1911 – 16 March 1987) was a Canadian-born violinist who had an international career as soloist, chamber musician, and teacher. He was known especially for his performances of 20th-century English music. He started to learn the violin at the age of 9, and studied with John Waterhouse and others in Winnipeg. He made his first broadcast at the age of about 12, and formed a trio at age 15. In 1927, he won a Dominion of Canada scholarship award to the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he studied with Rowsby Woof. He continued his studies (at age 21) for a summer with Adolf Busch in Switzerland, and afterwards in Belgium and London with Carl Flesch. Hamilton Harty considered appointing him leader of the London Symphony Orchestra at the age of 21, but the offer was not made on account of his youth. From around 1930 to 1936, Grinke was second violin of the Kutcher String Quartet (in which John Barbirolli was for a time the 'cellist). In 1935, with pianist, Dorothy Manley, he gave the premiere of the Canadian composer Hector Gratton's Quatrieme danse canadienne. It was with Manley and Florence Hooton, both fellow students at the Academy, that Grinke formed his trio, Kendall Taylor later replacing Manley. In 1937 he became concertmaster of the Boyd Neel Orchestra, a post he would hold until 1947. His first performance with them was at the Salzburg Festival in 1937, giving the premiere of the Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge by Benjamin Britten. Thereafter he performed with them in Europe, USA, Australia and New Zealand, the London Proms, and at the Edinburgh Festival. He resigned as concertmaster to pursue his solo career. During the later 1940s, Grinke made numerous recordings, mainly for Decca, many of which were originally released in the last years of 78rpm records. His recordings of John Ireland's chamber music include the Phantasie Trio of 1908, the 1938 Trio no 3 in E major, and The Holy Boy (with Florence Hooton (cello) and Kendall Taylor (piano)), and the Violin Sonata no 1 of 1909 with the composer at the piano. The trio also recorded the Phantasy trio of Frank Bridge and the Beethoven trio in E flat. Ralph Vaughan Williams dedicated his Sonata in A minor, written in 1952, to Grinke, who recorded the composer's Concerto Accademico in D minor, and The Lark Ascending, with the Boyd Neel Orchestra. Grinke and David Martin (also a Canadian violinist) performed J.S. Bach's Concerto for two violins at Vaughan Williams's funeral. Among other recordings from the 1940s were no's 3 and 9 from the 1697 set of 10 Sonatas by Henry Purcell, with Jean Pougnet and Boris Ord, and Purcell's sonata in G minor with Arnold Goldsbrough. He is heard with Kendall Taylor in the Dvořák G major Sonatina op 100, and with Watson Forbes (violist of the Stratton Quartet and Aeolian Quartet) in Mozart duos. He also premiered and recorded works by Arthur Benjamin, Benjamin Dale, Lennox Berkeley, Kenneth Leighton, Edmund Rubbra, York Bowen, Howard Ferguson, Arthur Bliss, Béla Bartók, Beethoven, Handel, Rachmaninoff and Smetana, often accompanied by Ivor Newton. He recorded all six Brandenburg Concertos with the Boyd Neel Orchestra, and made a broadcast of the Arnold Bax violin concerto from Australia. From 1963 to 1966 he taught at the Yehudi Menuhin School at Stoke D'Abernon, Surrey. He frequently sat on juries for international competitions. He retired from the Royal Academy of Music in 1978, where his students included John Georgiadis, and was appointed a CBE in 1979, but continued teaching until his death, which occurred in 1987. The National Portrait Gallery lists 8 portraits of Grinke in its collections.[ Grinke played an instrument by J. B. Rogerius of 1686, with aluminium-covered D and A, and silver-covered G and steel E strings, but also often played a Stradivarius dated 1718, lent by the Royal Academy of Music. He was married in 1942 to Dorothy Sirr Sheldon and had one son. He is buried in the churchyard of St Mary, Thornham Parva, Suffolk.
Lionel Tertis Pugnani Alexander Mackenzie Oskar Nedbal Gerald Walenn Arnold Bax Frank Bridge Gustav Holst Benjamin Dale York Bowen Ralph Vaughan Williams William Walton Paul Hindemith Shore Montagnana Albert Sammons Edward Elgar Bohemian Quartet Griller Quartet Proms 1717 1876 1900 1906 1920 1928 1930 1937 1949 1950 1975
Lionel Tertis plays his own arrangement of Pugnani's 'Prelude and Allegro,' recorded on 8 December 1930 with piano by Ethel Hobday. From Wikipedia: Lionel Tertis, CBE (29 December 1876 – 22 February 1975) was an English violist. He was one of the first viola players to achieve international fame and a noted teacher. Tertis was born in West Hartlepool, the son of Polish-Jewish immigrants. He first studied violin in Leipzig, Germany and at the Royal Academy of Music (RAM) in London. There he was encouraged by the principal, Alexander Mackenzie, to take up the viola instead. Under the additional influence of Oskar Nedbal, he did so and rapidly became one of the best known violists of his time, touring Europe and the US as a soloist. As Professor of Viola at the RAM (from 1900), he encouraged his colleagues and students to compose for the instrument, thereby greatly expanding its repertoire. In 1906, Tertis was temporarily in the famous Bohemian Quartet to replace the violist/composer Oskar Nedbal and later he took the viola position in the Gerald Walenn Quartet. Composers such as Arnold Bax, Frank Bridge, Gustav Holst, Benjamin Dale, York Bowen, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and William Walton wrote pieces for him. The Walton piece was his Viola Concerto; however, Tertis did not give the world premiere as he found it difficult to comprehend at the time; that honour went to Paul Hindemith. His pupil Bernard Shore took on the second performance at the Proms in August 1930. Tertis first performed the work a month later at the International Society for Contemporary Music festival in Liège. Over the next three years he gave five more performances of the concerto. He owned a 1717 Montagnana from 1920 to 1937 which he found during one of his concert tours to Paris in 1920, and took a chance in acquiring. According to his memoirs, it was 'shown to me in an unplayable condition, without bridge, strings or fingerboard.... No case was available – it was such a large instrument 17 1/8 inches – so my wife came to the rescue by wrapping it in her waterproof coat, and that is how it was taken across the English Channel.' Tertis preferred a large viola to get an especially rich tone from his instrument. Knowing that some would find a 17-1/8-inch instrument too large he created his own Tertis model, which provides many of the tonal advantages of the larger instrument in a manageable 16-3/4-inch size. Tertis sold the 1717 Montegnana to his pupil Bernard Shore in 1937, who in turn passed it on to his pupil Roger Chase. Along with William Murdoch (piano), Albert Sammons, and Lauri Kennedy, Tertis formed the Chamber Music Players. He also encouraged and coached Sidney Griller as he worked to found the Griller Quartet in 1928, and influenced the Griller's enthusiasm for the first Viennese School. In 1937, while at the height of his powers, he announced his retirement from the concert platform to concentrate on teaching. He appeared as soloist only one more time, at a special concert in 1949 to an invited audience at the RAM to help raise money for his fund to encourage the composition of music for the viola. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1950 New Year's Honours. Tertis composed several original works and also arranged many pieces not originally for the viola, such as Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto. He was the author of a number of publications about string playing, the viola in particular, and his own life. They include Cinderella No More and My Viola and I. Lionel Tertis died on 22 February 1975 in Wimbledon, London. He was 98 years old. I transferred this side from Australian Columbia DOX 267.
York Bowen Rideout Lionel Tertis Rachmaninoff Medtner Chopin Grieg Tchaikovsky Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji 1727 1876 1884 1961 1975
00:00 / 09:59 / 17:27 - Timothy Rideout (vla) / Frank Dupree (pno) (Viola Sonata No.2 - (http•••) York Bowen +••.••(...)) contributed several works for Viola, notably 2 sonatas and a Concerto, all dedicated to english violist Lionel Tertis +••.••(...)) known as “father of the viola” and revolutionized viola playing as we know it today. Bowen's compositions each display a unique ‘blend of Romanticism and strong individuality’. Although his influences include Rachmaninoff, Medtner, Chopin, Grieg and Tchaikovsky, Bowen's music is very much defined by its distinctive textures and harmonies. Although his active career spanned more than fifty years, Bowen's compositional style altered very little and he continued to employ a diatonic key system with use of chromatic harmonies throughout his life. Interesting fact, his 24 preludes for piano op.102 was dedicated to the english composer Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji. #YorkBowen There is no copyright infringement intended. If you wish your recording to be removed, it can be done, please just leave me an email, which can be found at the channel's about section.
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