Bush & Horovitz: Songs

Featuring

Susanna Fairbairn
Matthew Schellhorn
Geoffrey Bush
Joseph Horovitz

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Composition History

Joseph Horovitz's Foie-gras was commissioned by the Cheltenham International Music Festival for an evening entertainment in 1974, where each of the seven deadly sins was allotted to a different composer.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Geoffrey Bush believed that finding the right words was the most important consideration for a songwriter, as the musical setting would then follow.

Composer Biography

Joseph Horovitz, though born in Vienna, moved to England in 1938, and his musical training followed a traditional British pattern.

Composition History

Joseph Horovitz's scena Lady Macbeth was commissioned for a special Shakespeare evening at the Bergen festival in Norway.

Performer Biography

Matthew Schellhorn, the pianist on this recording, studied with Peter Hill and Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen and is a prominent performer of new music.

Historical Context

Joseph Horovitz's song Zum 11 ten März has special significance for Austrian émigrés, marking the date of Austria's Anschluss to Germany in 1938.

Performer Biography

Susanna Fairbairn, the soprano on this recording, formerly studied flute as an Instrumental Scholar while completing her undergraduate degree at Magdalen College, Oxford.