York Bowen's promising career as a composer and pianist was interrupted by the First World War, during which he played the horn in the regimental band of the Scots Guards.
Recording & Production
The Anglo-French Music Co. Ltd. recorded pieces set for examinations by the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, allowing students to hear an 'ideal' interpretation.
Recording & Production
York Bowen's first recording was for a small British label named Marathon, which went out of business in 1915 shortly after his disc was released.
Critical Reception
A reviewer criticized York Bowen's cadenzas in Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4, stating they were "mildly Chopinesque but quite out of the picture."
Performer Biography
York Bowen, the pianist on this album, was appointed a professor at the Royal Academy of Music at the young age of twenty-five.
Recording & Production
York Bowen's 1925 recording of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 was the first recording of this work, a fact praised by contemporary reviewers.
Recording & Production
The Marathon label, for which York Bowen made an early recording, used the 'hill and dale' recording technique, which produced an inferior sound but allowed for more grooves on a disc.
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