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This disc has been recorded to mark the 80th Birthday in 2007 of Birmingham based composer John Joubert. Born in 1927 in South Africa and composing in England since the 1940's he has seen many musical fashions come and go, but has steadfastly stuck to his own muse. He is the kind of composer who can take on board a wide range of influences and mould from them a unique voice. There is a logic and clarity of form that go all the way back to Beethoven. There are colourings influenced by late 19th Russian and early 20th century English and French composers, and Britten and Schostakovich. There is intelligence and richness without going anywhere near modernist obscurity. John Joubert has always wanted to write music that communicates to an audience. His music engages the senses with the richness of a fine old wine, and with all it's various influences, it is an unmistakably British vintage.
The Song Cycle Landscapes for soprano and piano trio charts our civilizations encroachment on the land by setting five poems to music. John Joubert gives voice to his theme by brewing up a dystopian pastoral style, sounding as if Vaughan Williams' `On Wenlock Edge' had passed through the imaginations of Edgar Allen Poe and Tim Burton.
His Second String Quartet sounds very much of it's time. Written in 1977, it shows that he can manipulate quivering string textures as ably as John Adams did a year late in `Shaker Loops', but in a manner that it is hard to imagine coming from beyond Britain's shores.
The Second CD is devoted to solo Piano. Joubert's three piano sonatas, which span 49 years from 1957 to 2006 are played by his long time advocate, the well regarded British composer and pianist John McCabe. They show the composer continuing to pursue a tradition of composition of piano works that spans 200 years or more, and in which it is still possible to say new things, given the necessary imagination.
All the works are well played and recorded, making for an illuminating introduction to the chamber music of John Joubert and showing him to be a substantial creative force.
The Song Cycle Landscapes for soprano and piano trio charts our civilizations encroachment on the land by setting five poems to music. John Joubert gives voice to his theme by brewing up a dystopian pastoral style, sounding as if Vaughan Williams' `On Wenlock Edge' had passed through the imaginations of Edgar Allen Poe and Tim Burton.
His Second String Quartet sounds very much of it's time. Written in 1977, it shows that he can manipulate quivering string textures as ably as John Adams did a year late in `Shaker Loops', but in a manner that it is hard to imagine coming from beyond Britain's shores.
The Second CD is devoted to solo Piano. Joubert's three piano sonatas, which span 49 years from 1957 to 2006 are played by his long time advocate, the well regarded British composer and pianist John McCabe. They show the composer continuing to pursue a tradition of composition of piano works that spans 200 years or more, and in which it is still possible to say new things, given the necessary imagination.
All the works are well played and recorded, making for an illuminating introduction to the chamber music of John Joubert and showing him to be a substantial creative force.
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