James Gilchrist, Tom Poster, Guy Johnston – Themes and Variations (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

James Gilchrist, Tom Poster, Guy Johnston – Themes and Variations (2019)
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Cellist Guy Johnston and pianist Tom Poster first met at the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition in 2000, and have been firm friends and frequent collaborators ever since. During their many recitals together, Johnston and Poster have foundthemselves returning again and again to certain works, associating these pieces with key moments in their lives, or simply deriving great pleasure from the sheer quality of the music.Theme and Variations includes three sets of variations, but also reflects the broader theme of lives intertwining: two musicians going in different directions but regularly resuming their musical partnership. Johnston and Poster are joined for a Schubert song by exceptional tenor James Gilchrist, and, alongside sets of variations by Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Martin , we hear deliciously romantic music by Rachmaninoff and Fauré, and Kiss on Wood by contemporary Scottish composer Sir James MacMillan. To end the programme, Saint-Saëns Swan glides into view and off into the distance.

Tracklist:

1-01. James Gilchrist, Tom Poster – 7 Variations on ‘Bei Mannern, welche Liebe fuhlen’, WoO 46 (09:24)
1-02. James Gilchrist, Tom Poster – Adagio & Allegro, Op. 70 (Version for Cello & Piano) (08:52)
1-03. James Gilchrist, Tom Poster – Romance in A Major, Op. 69 (03:42)
1-04. James Gilchrist, Tom Poster – Variations concertantes in D Major, Op. 17, MWV Q 19 (08:24)
1-05. James Gilchrist, Tom Poster, Guy Johnston – Auf dem Strom, Op. 119, D. 943 (Version for Voice, Cello & Piano) (08:52)
1-06. James Gilchrist, Tom Poster – Introduction & Polonaise brillante in C Major, Op. 3 (09:03)
1-07. James Gilchrist, Tom Poster – Prelude in F Major, Op. 2 No. 1 (03:18)
1-08. James Gilchrist, Tom Poster – Variations on a Theme of Rossini, H. 290 (07:31)
1-09. James Gilchrist, Tom Poster – Kiss on Wood (Version for Cello & Piano) (06:57)
1-10. James Gilchrist, Tom Poster – Vocalise in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 34 No. 14 (Arr. for Cello & Piano) (05:44)
1-11. James Gilchrist, Tom Poster – Carnival of the Animals, R. 125 – No. 13, The Swan (Version for Cello & Piano) (02:36)

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