GMCD 7133 You can order this CD in our E-Shop under Instrumental/Piano Read Reviews	English Romanticism III EUGÈNE GOOSSENS Piano Works Two Studies Op.39: Hommage à Debussy Op. 28 Homage to Paderewski (1941) Kaleidescope Op. 18 Rhythmic Dance (for 2 pianos) Nature Poems Op. 25 Pikki's Lament: Bonzo's Dance Ships Op. 42: Capriccio (1960) Concert Study Op. 10: Four Conceits Op. 20 Intermezzo from the Opera Don Juan de Manara Op. 54 Jeremy Filsell - Piano   www.jeremyfilsell.com

Contents:

	Two Studies opus 39
1.	Folk Tune		[2.14]
2.	Scherzo		[3.00]
3.	Hommage à Debussy opus 28	Sound Clip	[2.25]
4.	Homage to Paderewski (1941)		[2.14]
	Kaleidescope opus 18
5.	Good Morning		[0.54]
6.	Promenade		[1.28]
7.	The Hurdy-Gurdy Man		[0.59]
8.	March of the Wooden Soldier		[1.07]
9.	The Rocking Horse		[1.19]
10.	The Punch & Judy Show		[0.43]
11.	A Ghost Story		[2.01]
12.	The Old Musical Box		[0.43]
13.	The clockwork Dancer		[1.02]
14.	Lament to a departed Doll		[1.29]
15.	A Merry Party		[0.39]
16.	Good Night		[1.44]
17.	Rhythmic Dance (for 2 pianos)		[3.46]
	Nature Poems opus 25
18.	Awakening		[6.36]
19.	Pastoral		[5.08]
20.	Bacchanal		[5.44]
21.	Pikki's Lament		[2.24]
22.	Bonzo's Dance		[1.27]
	Ships opus 42
23.	The Tug		[1.51]
24.	The Tramp		[3.23]
25.	The Liner		[3.24]
26.	Capriccio (1960)		[2.21]
27.	Concert Study opus 10		[2.55]
	Four Conceits opus 20
28.	The Gargoyle		[1.14]
29.	Dance Memories		[1.20]
30.	A Walking Tune		[2.20]
31.	The Marionette		[0.49]
32.	Intermezzo (from the opera "Don Juan de Mañara" opus 54)		[6.35]

Total Time = 76:19 - Recorded at Hillesden Church, Hillesden 1997

The music of the great English conductor and composer Eugène Goossens - who died in 1962 at the age of 69 - has been unjustly neglected for far too long, and one of the most surprisingly successful of all Guild releases in 1996 was the CD English Romanticism, with Violin Sonatas by Ireland, Ferguson and Goossens played by Oliver Lewis and Jeremy Filsell. Indeed, so marked was the impact of this album that we immediately asked these artists to record Goossens’s other Sonata - and his complete music for violin and piano - with the Elgar Sonata.

Now we come with the first album devoted entirely to all of Goossens’s solo piano music - a truly significant body of work which certainly demands virtuoso playing from the pianist. In the late 1910s and 1920s Goossens was regarded as the most important English composer of his generation, and some of the dedicatees of his piano music - including Benno Moiseiwitsch - arrest to the regard in which his music was held.

Not only does this CD include all of Goossens’s music specifically written for solo piano - as he composed two operas, premiered at Covent Garden, the vocal scores of which he compiled himself, the orchestral extracts of these operas themselves constitute authentic transcriptions for solo piano by the composer - and these are also included. Much of this music is being recorded for the first time.

The result is a fabulous CD, of the greatest musical significance, which is sure to appeal to all lovers of English music of the first half of the 20th century, and to those keen to seek out the little-known byways of our musical heritage.

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