Alice Neary, Kate Gould, Gretel Dowdeswell – Tovey: Chamber Music, Vol. 3 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Alice Neary, Kate Gould, Gretel Dowdeswell – Tovey: Chamber Music, Vol. 3 (2022)
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Sir Donald Tovey (1875–1940), long hailed as one of the finest writers on music in English, saw himself primarily as a composer. His occasionally turbulent friendship with Pau Casals was the spur for a monumental concerto and one of his three cello sonatas: for solo cello, two cellos and cello with piano. The cello was the ideal instrument for Tovey’s Brahmsian musical language, with its long, singing lines unfolding in effortless counterpoint – though the huge passacaglia that ends the solo sonata also demands a virtuoso technique. The brief Bach arrangement recorded here for the first time arose when the twelve-year-old Tovey added a cello line to one of Bach’s best-known preludes, originally for lute.

Tracklist:

01. Alice Neary, Kate Gould, Gretel Dowdeswell – Tovey: Sonata for 2 Cellos in G Major: I. Allegro vivace (12:35)
02. Alice Neary, Kate Gould, Gretel Dowdeswell – Tovey: Sonata for 2 Cellos in G Major: II. Andante maestoso e sostenuto (05:53)
03. Alice Neary, Kate Gould, Gretel Dowdeswell – Tovey: Sonata for 2 Cellos in G Major: III. Presto giocoso (05:55)
04. Alice Neary, Kate Gould, Gretel Dowdeswell – Bach: Prelude in C Minor, BWV 999 (Arr. D.F. Tovey for Cello & Piano) (01:49)
05. Alice Neary, Kate Gould, Gretel Dowdeswell – Tovey: Sonata for Solo Cello in D Major, Op. 30: I. Allegro con brio ma largamente (09:00)
06. Alice Neary, Kate Gould, Gretel Dowdeswell – Tovey: Sonata for Solo Cello in D Major, Op. 30: II. Allegretto, un poco agitato, ma sempre piano (09:00)
07. Alice Neary, Kate Gould, Gretel Dowdeswell – Tovey: Sonata for Solo Cello in D Major, Op. 30: III. Passacaglia (16:38)
08. Alice Neary, Kate Gould, Gretel Dowdeswell – Tovey: Cello Sonata in F Major, Op. 4: I. Allegrissimo (10:49)
09. Alice Neary, Kate Gould, Gretel Dowdeswell – Tovey: Cello Sonata in F Major, Op. 4: II. Andante cantabile (07:56)
10. Alice Neary, Kate Gould, Gretel Dowdeswell – Tovey: Cello Sonata in F Major, Op. 4: III. Finale. Vivace giocoso ma non presto (08:22)

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