Clarke & Busch: Complete Piano Music

Callaghan, Simon

SRCD 408

In his obituary of William Busch, the writer and broadcaster John Amis observed that
‘His music is distinguished by its sensibility and warmth with a strong sense of form and a fine texture, linear rather than harmonic. It is tragic that he should have died when he was writing at the height of his powers and at a time when his gifts were beginning to receive recognition.

His output is modest, but of the highest quality. Most of his works are in small forms, such as songs, piano music and chamber works, including a very fine Piano Quartet, but he also wrote a Cello Concerto5 and a Violin Concerto was left incomplete at the time of his death.

Though some of Rebecca Clarke’s most successful pieces feature the piano, such as her Viola Sonata (1919) and Piano Trio (1921) and her writing for the instrument in those scores is both idiomatic and inventive, she only wrote a handful of solo piano pieces, all featured on this release.
- Paul Conway, 2022

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Lyrita

03-10-2022

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