The Classics a Day team decided October was the month to feature octets. Granted, it is the tenth month of the year, but the word “detects” isn’t as alliterative. The mix of instruments that make up an octet varies. Some composers wrote for double string quartet, some for wind instruments, and some for a blend […]
Howard Ferguson
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Raphael Terroni presents Howard Ferguson’s best
With Howard Ferguson, it was always about quality, not quantity. Ferguson was extremely self-critical. As a result, his music only emerged after much deliberation and revision. Over a span of thirty years, he wrote only nineteen works. And then he stopped because he felt he had nothing left to say. But when he spoke musically, […]
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Tasmin Little – British Violin Sonatas
Tasmin Little’s off to a great start with her survey of British violin sonatas. Volume One features Howard Ferguson’s quintessentially British Violin Sonata No. 2, Benjamin Britten’s cosmopolitan Suite for Violin and Piano, and three works by William Walton that fall stylistically somewhere between. Tasmin Little plays them all with an expressive yet precise manner, […]