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Monday, July 23, 2018

York Bowen - 24 Preludes; Suite Mignonne; Berceuse (Cristina Ortiz)


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Composer: York Bowen
  • (01-24) 24 Preludes, Op. 102
  • (25)      Berceuse in D major, Op. 83
  • (26)      Barcarolle (from Suite for Piano No. 2 in G major, Op. 30)
  • (27-29) Suite for Piano No. 4, Op. 39, 'Suite Mignonne'

Cristina Ortiz, piano
Date: 2014
Label: Grand Piano (Naxos)
https://www.grandpianorecords.com/Album/AlbumDetails/GP637

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Review

York Bowen (1884-1961) became the cruel victim of passing and dismissive fashion, his lovingly crafted, lyrically haunting ideas swept aside. Yet only a puritan could resist his magical daydreams, with their glowing and personal remembrance of past ages (notably of Chopin and Rachmaninov). Busoni’s description of Liszt’s ‘La ricordanza’ étude as being ‘like a packet of yellowed love letters’ could equally apply to much of Bowen’s piano-writing.

On record, Stephen Hough’s dazzling réclame (Hyperion, 6/96) was followed by Joop Celis’s complete cycle (Chandos) and Danny Driver’s set of the six piano sonatas (Hyperion, 12/09), and now comes a deeply affectionate tribute from Cristina Ortiz. Her performance of the 24 Preludes has all the love and freshness of a recent discovery. And, whether in her supple grace and fluency in the gorgeous seventh Prelude or in the sombre magnificence of No 24, you will hear playing quite without the hard edge of the over-seasoned virtuoso but a charm and fluency that create their own moving, poetic ambience. The exquisite Berceuse and the Barcarolle from the Op 30 Suite could hardly be given more insinuatingly, and when you hear Ortiz in the ‘Moto perpetuo’ from the Suite mignonne you will marvel at such musical empathy, backed by an immaculate dexterity. A more endearing case for Bowen would be hard to imagine.

-- Bryce Morrison, Gramophone

More reviews:
https://www.naxos.com/reviews/reviewslist.asp?catalogueid=GP637&languageid=EN

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York Bowen (22 February 1884 – 23 November 1961) was an English composer and pianist, notable for his piano music. Bowen’s musical career spanned more than fifty years during which time he wrote over 160 works. As well as being a pianist and composer, Bowen was a talented conductor, organist, violist and horn player. Despite achieving considerable success during his lifetime, many of the composer’s works remained unpublished and unperformed until after his death. Bowen’s compositional style is widely considered as ‘Romantic’ and his works are often characterized by their rich harmonic language.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/York_Bowen

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Cristina Ortiz (born April 17, 1950, in Bahia) is a Brazilian pianist. Ortiz began her studies in her home country before moving to France with Magda Tagliaferro. Soon after finishing her studies in Paris, she won the first prize of the third edition of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. She continued her training with Rudolf Serkin in Philadelphia at the Curtis Institute of Music and later moved to London, where she currently lives. Ortiz has performed in most of the major concert halls around the world, recorded for EMI, Decca, Collins Classics, and Intrada, and given master classes in London and New York.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristina_Ortiz

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