Martin Roscoe, the pianist on this album, has performed over eighty times with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and more than forty times with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.
Recording & Production
This album was recorded in Henry Wood Hall, London, in July 2001, with Simon Eadon as Recording Engineer and Andrew Keener as Recording Producer.
Performer Biography
Martin Roscoe has performed at the Proms on six occasions and appears at London's Wigmore Hall each season.
Composer's Artistic Vision
This music, broadly neoclassical, uses clear-cut forms and neo-Baroque patterning in fast movements, with piano writing often in octaves and a limpid romanticism in slow movements.
Interpretation
Guildhall Strings, the ensemble on this album, performs standing in a semicircle without a conductor, with all players contributing to the music's shaping.
Composition History
The genre of short concert pieces for piano and strings, in an approachable style, is very much an English one, focused on the inter-war years.
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