Belfast-born composer Howard Ferguson has been a good candidate for revival now that the modernist choke hold has been broken; his music has been little heard in recent decades, but between the world wars it was a common presence on concert programs in the British Isles. The Piano Sonata in F minor, Op. 8, that opens this Naxos release was premiered and subsequently championed by no less than Myra Hess. Ferguson's music was, in the words of annotator Richard Whitehouse, "inherently yet never defensively conservative," and ...
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Belfast-born composer Howard Ferguson has been a good candidate for revival now that the modernist choke hold has been broken; his music has been little heard in recent decades, but between the world wars it was a common presence on concert programs in the British Isles. The Piano Sonata in F minor, Op. 8, that opens this Naxos release was premiered and subsequently championed by no less than Myra Hess. Ferguson's music was, in the words of annotator Richard Whitehouse, "inherently yet never defensively conservative," and his response to contemporary trends took various forms including, in the end, silence; he stopped composing in 1959, although he lived for four decades after that. The four works recorded here differ from each other stylistically. The Piano Sonata, an intense work written after the death of Ferguson's mentor, pianist Howard Samuel, weaves elaborate motivic development into its Romantic and tonal language, suggesting perhaps what Brahms might have sounded like if he had lived 75 years...
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