Gena Branscombe: Sonata in a Minor for Violin and Piano Claude
Romance: Early Canadian Chamber Music. Elaine Keillor, piano; Edvard Skerjanc, violin; Rosalind Sartori, violoncello. Carleton Sound CSCD 1009. $20.98. Available from the Canadian Music Centre Distribution Service: www.musiccentre.ca Gena Branscombe: Sonata in A Minor for The grandest composition is Edward B. Violin and Piano Manning's full-length Trio, dating from the Claude Champagne: Habanera first years of the twentieth century, though Alexis Contant: Romance apparently subject to revision until the 40s. An Laura G. Lemon: Mazurka expatriate working in New York, Manning Edward B. Manning: Piano Trio studied with MacDowell and Humperdinck. Rodolphe Mathieu: Lied His trio complements the better known Trio of Leo Smith: Indian Romance; Alexis Contant; but where Contant's work is Sonata for Violoncello and Piano innately part of late French romantic tradition-represented on this disc by Contant's slight but charming Romance for The steady discovery of the depth and breadth cello and piano-Manning's work is a sturdy, of the Canadian musical repertoire has more academic piece, rather less imaginative, progressed substantially in the last decades. and, for me at least, rather less ingratiating. Romance: Early Canadian Chamber Music, published by Carleton Sound, adds to this awareness by focussing on anumber of figures Picton Ontario native Gena Branscombe writing for chamber ensemble before the was another expatriate who, as it turns out, Second World War. Elaine Keillor, one of the also studied in Berlin with Humperdinck. Her pre-eminent figures in the musical heritage one-movement Violin Sonata, which dates movement, is the pianist on this CD; she's from 1920, is also in the florid and extroverted joined by Edvard Skerjanc, violin, and (and, in its own day, the increasingly Rosalind Sartori, cello.
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