- Audio CD (April 22 2003)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Dutton Labs UK
- ASIN: B00002MXU6
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #241,710 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Heartfelt, utterly dedicated playing from this fine duo, beautifully recorded, of some uncommonly rewarding repertoire from the pen of an underrated British master. The five works here span some four decades, from the sturdy lyricism of the First Sonata (completed during the summer of 1925, shortly after the 24-year-old Rubbra had graduated from London's Royal College of Music), through the ever-thoughtful eloquence of its altogether more commanding successor from 1931 (taken up by no less a fiddler than the great Albert Sammons) to the timeless profundity and seemingly effortless organic power of the sublime Third and final Sonata (first heard at the 1968 Cheltenham Festival). The admirable Krysia Osostowicz (formerly violinist with the distinguished, now-disbanded piano quartet, Domus) and Michael Dussek also give us the Four Pieces, Op. 29 (written in 1926 for teaching purposes), as well as the marvellous, unaccompanied Variations On A Phrygian Theme, composed in 1961 for Frederick Grinke's 50th birthday. No true Anglophile will want to miss this splendid, mid-priced issue. --Andrew Achenbach
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Rubbra: Violin Sonata Nos. 1-3 / Four Pieces / Variations on a Phrygian Theme
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A genuine discovery
May 5 2012
By P. Mander
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A good example of the work that Dutton Laboratories has been doing in its Epoch series to champion the unrecorded music of 20th century British classical composers. Of the three sonatas on this CD, only one of them (No.2) had been previously recorded when this was released in 1999.
I knew little of Rubbra's music, orchestral or chamber, before I acquired this disc and so came to it 'cold'. To say it was a pleasant surprise would be to underestimate the 58 minutes of music presented here - it was a genuine discovery that I keep returning to.
All three sonatas are modest in length, between 12 and 18 minutes, but they pack plenty of beautifully written content into them that one does not easily tire of.
The other works on this disc, including the Variations on A Phrygian Theme for solo violin, have the same characteristic of inviting another hearing.
Osostowicz's violin has a pleasantly full sound, the recording is nicely balanced, and the sleeve notes are detailed and informative.
I knew little of Rubbra's music, orchestral or chamber, before I acquired this disc and so came to it 'cold'. To say it was a pleasant surprise would be to underestimate the 58 minutes of music presented here - it was a genuine discovery that I keep returning to.
All three sonatas are modest in length, between 12 and 18 minutes, but they pack plenty of beautifully written content into them that one does not easily tire of.
The other works on this disc, including the Variations on A Phrygian Theme for solo violin, have the same characteristic of inviting another hearing.
Osostowicz's violin has a pleasantly full sound, the recording is nicely balanced, and the sleeve notes are detailed and informative.
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