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Bowen & Reizenstein: Works for Piano (1958, 1960)

7/1/2008, 25 Tracks, 1:33:49

Featuring

  • York Bowen
  • Franz Reizenstein

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Recording & Production

This album features recordings of York Bowen from May 1960 and Franz Reizenstein from October 1958, both recorded in The Music Room.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

York Bowen had a successful performing career as a solo pianist and as a duo with viola player Lionel Tertis.

Source: Booklet

Composer's Artistic Vision

York Bowen composed over 160 works in a late romantic, yet deeply personal, idiom.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Franz Reizenstein, a German-born composer, studied composition with Paul Hindemith in Berlin before coming to England in 1934 to study with Ralph Vaughan Williams.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

York Bowen, a British composer, was appointed Professor at the Royal Academy of Music in 1909 and held the post until two years before his death in 1961.

Source: Booklet

Composer's Artistic Vision

Franz Reizenstein's style is described as cheerfully eclectic and contrapuntal, with a keen harmonic sense rooted in tonality.

Source: Booklet

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