Edward Elgar's own piano duet version of his Serenade in E minor, Op. 20, was published in 1893, the year after its original composition for string orchestra, but its existence has largely escaped notice.
Composer Biography
Edgar Bainton, a composer featured on this album, was interned in a prison camp for four and a half years during World War I after being arrested on his way to the Bayreuth Festival in 1914.
Compositional Technique
Frank Bury's Prelude and Fugue in E flat major, receiving its first recording on this album, features striking elements like changing bar-lengths, cross-rhythms, and occasional excursions into bitonality and the whole-tone scale.
Performer Biography
The British piano duo Goldstone and Clemmow, consisting of husband and wife Anthony Goldstone and Caroline Clemmow, is internationally recognized as a leading force in piano duo performance.
Composer Biography
Frank Bury, a gifted musician and composer featured on this album, had his life cut short in 1944 when he was killed as a commando during the airborne landings in Normandy.
Composition History
Gustav Holst's famous suite The Planets was first performed in its original two-piano version for an invited audience before the public heard the orchestral version.
Recording & Production
This album features several world premiere recordings of unjustly neglected works, a common practice for the Goldstone and Clemmow duo.
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