Herbert Howells: Lambert's Clavichord; Howells' Clavichord (1994)

Hyperion has reissued John McCabe's 1994 recording of Herbert Howells' clavichord music under its Helios series. While other twentieth century composers were re-discovering the harpsichord, Howells instead found inspiration in another keyboard instrument. His love for early English music and the instruments of two modern clavichord makers led to the composition of the three sets of miniatures: Lambert's Clavichord and Howells' Clavichord Books One and Two. Howells dedicated every piece in each set to a friend, and in the ... Read More

Hyperion has reissued John McCabe's 1994 recording of Herbert Howells' clavichord music under its Helios series. While other twentieth century composers were re-discovering the harpsichord, Howells instead found inspiration in another keyboard instrument. His love for early English music and the instruments of two modern clavichord makers led to the composition of the three sets of miniatures: Lambert's Clavichord and Howells' Clavichord Books One and Two. Howells dedicated every piece in each set to a friend, and in the last two sets he even sometimes attempted to put something of the dedicatee into the music, whether it was a description of that person's character or an imitation of a fellow composer's style. Howells' titles, and in many instances the style of the piece, is a reference to the keyboard compositions of the English virginalists of the late sixteenth/early seventeenth centuries. On the one hand, "Lambert's Fireside" and "Goff's Fireside," named after Herbert Lambert and Thomas Goff, the... Read Less

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