or
Sign in to turn on 1-Click ordering.
 
 
More Buying Choices
19 used & new from £5.00

Have one to sell? Sell yours here
 
   
Bowen: Piano Music
 
See larger image and other views
 

Bowen: Piano Music

~ York Bowen (Composer), Stephen Hough (Piano)
5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
Price: £11.98 & this item Delivered FREE in the UK with Super Saver Delivery. See details and conditions
o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o
In stock.
Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.co.uk. Gift-wrap available.

Only 3 left in stock--order soon (more on the way).

Want guaranteed delivery by Thursday, November 12? Choose Express delivery at checkout. See Details
14 new from £10.00 4 used from £5.00 1 collectible from £10.69

Special Offers and Product Promotions


Frequently Bought Together

Customers buy this with York Bowen: Piano Concerto No. 2; Piano Concerto No. 3; Symphonic Fantasia, Op. 16 ~ York Bowen

Bowen: Piano Music + York Bowen: Piano Concerto No. 2; Piano Concerto No. 3; Symphonic Fantasia, Op. 16
Price For Both: £26.97

Show availability and shipping details


Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

York Bowen: Piano Concerto No. 2; Piano Concerto No. 3; Symphonic Fantasia, Op. 16

York Bowen: Piano Concerto No. 2; Piano Concerto No. 3; Symphonic Fantasia, Op. 16

~ York Bowen
5.0 out of 5 stars (1)  £14.99
Bowen & Forsyth: Viola Concertos

Bowen & Forsyth: Viola Concertos

~ York Bowen
5.0 out of 5 stars (1)  £12.69
Fauré: Complete Music for Piano

Fauré: Complete Music for Piano

~ Gabriel Faure
£37.98
York Bowen: Violin Concerto; Piano Concerto

York Bowen: Violin Concerto; Piano Concerto

~ York Bowen
5.0 out of 5 stars (2)  £8.79
Stephen Hough's English Album

Stephen Hough's English Album

~ Stephen Hough
£11.98
Explore similar items

Product details

  • Composer: York Bowen
  • Audio CD (1 Jan 2000)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Hyperion
  • ASIN: B000002ZX4
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 34,299 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

1. 24 Preludes In All Major And Minor Keys Op 102: No 1 In C major
2. 24 Preludes In All Major And Minor Keys Op 102: No 2 In C minor
3. 24 Preludes In All Major And Minor Keys Op 102: No 10 In E minor
4. 24 Preludes In All Major And Minor Keys Op 102: No 7 In E flat major
5. 24 Preludes In All Major And Minor Keys Op 102: No 8 In E flat minor
6. 24 Preludes In All Major And Minor Keys Op 102: No 22 In B flat minor
7. 24 Preludes In All Major And Minor Keys Op 102: No 21 In B flat major
8. 24 Preludes In All Major And Minor Keys Op 102: No 15 In G major
9. 24 Preludes In All Major And Minor Keys Op 102: No 16 In G minor
10. 24 Preludes In All Major And Minor Keys Op 102: No 6 In D minor
11. 24 Preludes In All Major And Minor Keys Op 102: No 19 In A major
12. 24 Preludes In All Major And Minor Keys Op 102: No 20 In A minor
13. 24 Preludes In All Major And Minor Keys Op 102: No 18 In G sharp minor
14. Ballade No 2 Op 87
15. Sonata No 5 In F minor Op 72: Moderato
16. Sonata No 5 In F minor Op 72: Andate semplice
17. Sonata No 5 In F minor Op 72: Allegro con fuoco - Pił lento - Pił mosso e con fuoco
18. Berceuse Op 83
19. Moto perpetuo from Op 39
20. Toccata Op 155
See all 22 tracks on this disc

On this CD:
  1. 24 Preludes in All Keys
    Composed by York Bowen
    with Stephen Hough

  2. Ballade No. 2
    Composed by York Bowen
    with Stephen Hough

  3. Piano Sonata No. 5 in F minor
    Composed by York Bowen
    with Stephen Hough

  4. Berceuse in D
    Composed by York Bowen
    with Stephen Hough

  5. Suite Mignonne
    Composed by York Bowen
    with Stephen Hough

  6. Toccata in A minor
    Composed by York Bowen
    with Stephen Hough

  7. Romances
    Composed by York Bowen
    with Stephen Hough


Suggested Tags from Similar Products

 (What's this?)
Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
 
stephen hough
piano
no

Your tags: Add your first tag
 

 

Customer Reviews

1 Review
5 star:
 (1)
4 star:    (0)
3 star:    (0)
2 star:    (0)
1 star:    (0)
 
 
 
 
 
Average Customer Review
5.0 out of 5 stars (1 customer review)
 
 
 
 
Share your thoughts with other customers:
Most Helpful Customer Reviews

 
17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars AND THOSE IN FRONT CRIED 'BACK!', 18 Nov 2005
By DAVID BRYSON (Glossop Derbyshire England) - See all my reviews
(TOP 50 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)      
York Bowen's name has been familiar to me since I was a child. It used to appear on the cover of books of pieces set for piano examinations. I just assumed that he must be someone frightfully famous, and I have never known the first thing about him until now. The liner-note with this outstanding disc goes about promoting him in exactly the right way so far as I'm concerned. Firstly the long essay by Francis Pott is knowledgeable, thoughtful and informative. In the second place there are individual paragraphs on each of the pieces making up the recital. Best of all, there is a combative contribution by Hough himself, laying about certain fashions and trends in music during the 20th century and in effect saying 'good riddance'. I read very little musical journalism these days, but it's not the first time recently that I've seen this tone adopted, and there seems to be a new mood. I never myself thought it was unduly conservative or reactionary to think that a fair amount of avant-garde composition was really pretentious nonsense. However to call it a load of rubbish was just not done in enlightened circles. What seems to be happening now is that the enlightened circles have themselves come full circle and that once-sacrosanct essays in musical modernity now have an official and certified status as, well, a load of rubbish.

Time to dust off York Bowen in that case. Not all of his music even got into print, but what we have here is not only of good quality, it is of consistently good quality. I suppose the idiom could fairly be called early 20th century romantic. The harmonic style is tonal, and any flirting with whole-tone scales is minimal. The music is approachable and even slightly melodious, not in any sense forbidding although I readily believe Hough when he says that it takes time to reveal itself properly. Some of the titles - preludes in all keys, ballade, berceuse - are obviously borrowed from Chopin, but I don't hear much direct influence of Chopin's style. What I do hear is the Russians, who of course trace their descent more to Chopin than to Schumann or to Brahms, and I think I hear not only Rachmaninov and Medtner as Mr Pott does but also Scriabin in his less mystical phase. It is however 'absolute' music, not autobiographical, descriptive or representational music, and to that extent it could be said to hark back to Chopin himself, who kept his distance from the literary influences that so strongly imbued the music of his contemporaries and musical descendents. In fact in the Ballade that Hough gives us here there is a clear and explicit reference to Chopin's own second Ballade, but that is a gesture of deference, a musical doffing of the cap, rather than any sign of direct stylistic influence.

By all accounts Bowen himself was a pretty formidable virtuoso of the piano, which is exactly what one would infer from the difficulty and obvious professionalism of his piano writing, which strikes me as far more skilful and adept than that of, say, his friend and contemporary Arnold Bax. It takes someone who is more than just the next virtuoso to handle it, and it presumably needs no saying by now that Stephen Hough is exceptional even by today's formidable virtuoso standards. He is the complete professional, meaning that in the right sense, namely that he is sternly self-disciplined in everything he does. His technique is prodigious, but one could say that too of our late beloved Ogdon, who rivalled Hough in musical insight too but projected a very different persona and took a more autoschediastic approach. A lot of Ogdon's charm was that we never exactly knew where we were with him. With Hough we have a much better idea of that. He is not precisely calculated to the nth degree as Michelangeli was, but n minus 1 might describe the effect - intellectual, calculated certainly, but calculated very accurately and with emotion and belief behind it.

This is music that I find it difficult to imagine anyone disliking or being bored by now that it is back in official favour. To me it is highly attractive stuff and quality stuff too. I could not help noticing that it seems to have attracted much more comment than other British music of the period that has interested me personally, music by Bax, Bliss and Rawsthorne for instance. A great bonus and relief for me is that it is entirely innocent of contamination from what Constant Lambert well termed 'the cowpat school' of British music, and while it avoids modernism even to the modest extent that Walton went in for that it is music with integrity and consistency. It has been a pleasure to me to make its acquaintance and the pleasure is one that I recommend in general.

Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)


Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
 
 
 
Only search this product's reviews



Customer Discussions

This product's forum
Discussion Replies Latest Post
No discussions yet

Ask questions, Share opinions, Gain insight
Start a new discussion
Topic:
First post:
Prompts for sign-in
 


Active discussions in related forums
   
Related forums


What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing This Item?


Listmania!


Look for similar items by category


Look for similar items by subject





i.e., each product must be in subject 1 AND subject 2 AND ...

Feedback

Ad

Your Recent History

 (What's this?)

After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.