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Lonely Landscape: Chamber Music and Song by Pamela Harrison

11/15/2024, 40 Tracks, 1:22:25

Featuring

  • Alice Neary
  • Jâms Coleman
  • James Gilchrist
  • Lucy Gould
  • André Swanepoel
  • David Adams
  • Sebastian Pennar
  • Robert Plane
  • Stephen Marsden
  • Ben Goldscheider
  • Matthew Featherstone
  • Amy McKean
  • Jarosław Augustyniak
  • Sam Willsmore
  • Sam Davies-Turner
  • Hannah Harding
  • David Tillotson
  • Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama Chamber Players
  • Pamela Harrison

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Composer Biography

Pamela Harrison, the composer, studied piano with Arthur Benjamin and composition with Gordon Jacob at the Royal College of Music.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Pamela Harrison's husband, James Harvey Phillips, was a distinguished cellist and professor at the Royal College of Music, who championed her work.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Pamela Harrison's Octetto Pastorale was composed for the newly formed Endymion Ensemble, and its wind writing evokes an 'outdoors' nature.

Source: Booklet

Recording & Production

All the recordings on this album are world premieres, meaning they are the first recorded accounts of these works.

Source: Booklet

Album & Artwork

The album cover features a painting by Pamela Harrison herself, titled 'Edge of Downland', reflecting her passion for painting country scenes.

Source: Booklet

Composer's Artistic Vision

Pamela Harrison's music is described as having an 'unforced and highly approachable idiom' that encapsulates the 'poise and understatement of a bygone era'.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

The Cello Sonata was dedicated to Pamela Harrison's husband, 'Jimmy' (James Harvey Phillips), and premiered in 1947 at Wigmore Hall.

Source: Booklet

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