George Rowley – Gurney: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1 & 3 (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

George Rowley – Gurney: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1 & 3 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:37 minutes | 1,22 GB | Genre: Classical
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Ivor Gurney’s songs (Naxos 8.572151) have long earned him renown but his works for piano, composed over the period of a decade, are hardly known. The lyrically beautiful Five Preludes reflect influences as wide as Schumann and Scriabin but preserve Gurney’s expressive freshness. The Sonatas Nos. 1 and 3 inhabit very different sound worlds from each other, and only one movement of Sonata No. 2 has survived, a deeply poignant elegy – all of which are heard here in world premiere recordings. His poem for piano, Autumn, offers further opportunity to discover this rarely heard music by a composer for whom the pursuit of beauty was of the utmost importance.

Tracklist:
01. George Rowley – 5 Preludes: No. 5 in D Major (02:10)
02. George Rowley – 5 Preludes: No. 2 in A Minor (01:09)
03. George Rowley – 5 Preludes: No. 4 in F-Sharp Major (02:15)
04. George Rowley – 5 Preludes: No. 3 in D-Flat Major (02:59)
05. George Rowley – 5 Preludes: No. 1 in F-Sharp Major (02:25)
06. George Rowley – Piano Sonata No. 1 in F Minor: I. Molto allegro (08:37)
07. George Rowley – Piano Sonata No. 1 in F Minor: II. Largo (11:27)
08. George Rowley – Piano Sonata No. 1 in F Minor: III. Moderato (06:52)
09. George Rowley – Piano Sonata No. 3 in D Minor: I. Moderato (12:52)
10. George Rowley – Piano Sonata No. 3 in D Minor: II. Adagio (09:18)
11. George Rowley – 2 Poems for Piano: No. 1, Autumn (04:22)
12. George Rowley – Piano Sonata No. 2 in D Major: II. Adagio (10:08)

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