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℗ 2014 Hyperion Records Limited
Released | November 10, 2023 |
Originated | June 1, 2014 |
Duration | 1h 06m 05s |
Record Label | Hyperion |
Genre | Classical |
Arthur Benjamin: Violin Sonatina & Viola Sonata
Lawrence Power, Simon Crawford-Phillips
Available in 96 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
Violin Sonatina
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1.1
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I. Tranquilly Flowing
Arthur Benjamin; Lawrence Power; Simon Crawford-Phillips |
7:44 | |||
1.2
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II. Scherzo di stile antico
Arthur Benjamin; Simon Crawford-Phillips; Lawrence Power |
2:43 | |||
1.3
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III. Rondo. Con moto ma non allegro
Arthur Benjamin; Lawrence Power; Simon Crawford-Phillips |
5:42 | |||
3 Pieces for Violin and Piano
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1.4
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I. Arabesque (The Muted Pavane)
Arthur Benjamin; Lawrence Power; Simon Crawford-Phillips |
4:31 | |||
1.5
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II. Carnavalesque. Tempo di valse
Arthur Benjamin; Lawrence Power; Simon Crawford-Phillips |
3:35 | |||
1.6
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III. Humoresque. Non troppo allegro
Arthur Benjamin; Simon Crawford-Phillips; Lawrence Power |
3:23 | |||
1.7
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A Tune and Variations for Little People
Arthur Benjamin; Simon Crawford-Phillips; Lawrence Power |
3:23 | |||
1.8
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Le tombeau de Ravel "Valses-caprices"
Arthur Benjamin; Lawrence Power; Simon Crawford-Phillips |
13:15 | |||
Viola Sonata
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1.9
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I. Elegy. Adagio e mesto
Arthur Benjamin; Simon Crawford-Phillips; Lawrence Power |
7:07 | |||
1.10
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II. Waltz. Quasi improvisatore –
Arthur Benjamin; Lawrence Power; Simon Crawford-Phillips |
5:48 | |||
1.11
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III. Toccata. Allegro ma non troppo
Arthur Benjamin; Simon Crawford-Phillips; Lawrence Power |
4:12 | |||
1.12
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From San Domingo
Arthur Benjamin; Lawrence Power; Simon Crawford-Phillips |
2:51 | |||
1.13
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Jamaican Rumba (Arr. Primrose)
Arthur Benjamin; William Primrose; Lawrence Power; Simon Crawford-Phillips |
1:51 | |||
Digital Booklet
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"This recording widens our horizons, revealing the thoughtful, technically brilliant and cosmopolitan musician that Benjamin’s friends and students in London, Canada and his native Australia always knew him to be … whether playing his viola or violin, Lawrence Power is in total sympathy with Benjamin’s shifting moods, and Simon Crawford-Phillips proves a lithe and responsive piano partner. A bouncy recording and excellent inlay notes offer more inducements for listeners to discover that the Jamaican Rumba man, composer of five operas and a powerful symphony, was far from a one-trick pony."
- BBC Music Magazine
Lawrence Power is Britain’s greatest living viola player, the true successor to Lionel Tertis and William Primrose. Part of his mission is to perform and record music premiered by those masters of the previous century, including works by York Bowen, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Benjamin Dale, William Walton and, here, Arthur Benjamin.
Benjamin was one of the first Australian musicians to forge an international reputation. His creative output, which encompasses about eighty works altogether, manifests a great variety of idioms and genres. It includes a good number of light-music miniatures, many of them infused with a jazz or Afro-Caribbean flavour: the most famous of these is the "Jamaican Rumba" which concludes this album.
This album represents something of a departure for Lawrence Power’s recording career: he performs Benjamin’s Violin Sonatina on the violin. This ambitious, virtuosic and formidably accomplished work is not at all diminutive—perhaps the lack of a slow movement was felt to debar it from full sonata status.
Benjamin’s Viola Sonata is a wartime piece, with a first movement of dark foreboding. It manifests a spiritual affinity with the large-scale and often elegiac Symphony that Benjamin was about to begin composing, and it contains the bleakest and perhaps the most deeply felt music on the present album. It is an impressive, powerful and virtuosic work, with many technical challenges, all of which Lawrence scales with his usual astonishing prowess.
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Hyperion Studio Masters
Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -3.46 -9.99 to -1.20 | -26.14 -31.54 to -22.59 | -22.50 -28.00 to -19.30 | 14 13 to 16 | |
1 | I. Tranquilly Flowing | -1.20 | -24.23 | -20.0 | 14 |
2 | II. Scherzo di stile antico | -9.99 | -30.10 | -27.3 | 13 |
3 | III. Rondo. Con moto ma non allegro | -1.20 | -24.00 | -20.6 | 14 |
4 | I. Arabesque (The Muted Pavane) | -7.63 | -29.78 | -26.7 | 14 |
5 | II. Carnavalesque. Tempo di valse | -2.71 | -25.38 | -21.2 | 14 |
6 | III. Humoresque. Non troppo allegro | -1.40 | -26.19 | -22.6 | 15 |
7 | A Tune and Variations for Little People | -8.33 | -31.54 | -28.0 | 14 |
8 | Le tombeau de Ravel "Valses-caprices" | -1.20 | -26.91 | -23.2 | 16 |
9 | I. Elegy. Adagio e mesto | -1.20 | -24.14 | -20.3 | 14 |
10 | II. Waltz. Quasi improvisatore – | -1.20 | -23.05 | -19.3 | 14 |
11 | III. Toccata. Allegro ma non troppo | -1.20 | -22.59 | -19.4 | 14 |
12 | From San Domingo | -3.37 | -26.84 | -22.2 | 13 |
13 | Jamaican Rumba (Arr. Primrose) | -4.38 | -25.12 | -21.7 | 13 |