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Kenneth Leighton: Music for Violin and Piano

Winner of Gramophone critic Peter Dickinson’s personal best for 2014, this recording presents the premiere of neglected masterpieces for violin and piano, opening a distinctive duo sound world.

Arabella Teniswood-Harveypiano No photograph: Kenneth Leighton Kenneth Leightoncomposer Edwin Palingviolin
  • CatalogueMD 3358
  • ReleasedJan 2013
  • Playing time68 minutes 32 seconds
  • Recorded at Move Records Studio

Listen & tracks

4 of 8 tracks have a preview · 4 works · 68:32

  1. Sonata No. 1 (1949)Kenneth Leighton 3 movements18:23
    1. 1 Allegro molto appassionato 5:05
    2. 2 Lento e liberamente 6:23
    3. 3 Presto energico 6:55
  2. 4 Nocturne (1959) Kenneth Leighton Molto largo 6:33
  3. Sonata No. 2 (1953)Kenneth Leighton 3 movements20:19
    1. 5 Moderato patetico 7:14
    2. 6 Passacaglia – Lento 7:36
    3. 7 Allegro molto e ritmico 5:29
  4. 8 Metamorphoses (1966) Kenneth Leighton 23:17

The skilfully crafted music explores new sonorities for the instruments, ranging from the opaque and impenetrable to transparent moments of celestial calm.

Kenneth Leighton was born in Wakefield in 1929. He was educated at the Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, and was a chorister at Wakefield Cathedral. A prodigious pianist, he gained his Licentiate of the Royal College of Music at fifteen. In 1947 he attended The Queen’s College, Oxford on a Hastings Scholarship in Classics, continuing music studies with Bernard Rose. In 1951 he graduated with both a BA in Classics and a BMus, won the Mendelssohn Scholarship, and went on to study in Rome with Goffredo Petrassi.

Reviews

Both musicians are similarly masterful in their ability to range freely through the full scope of volume and intensity available to them, while interacting with their musical partner who is busy doing the same thing. Paling is a long-established English violinist, while Teniswood-Harvey is busy keeping the flag flying high for Tasmania, and their selection to present of the work of this underrated composer is a credit to Move [Records]. ★★★★★

— Phil Vendy, 2MBS Fine Music Magazine

Teniswood-Harvey articulates Leighton’s often unexpected rhythms vividly, but turns cushioning and whetting the violin’s chromatic blade. Paling finds some rich and blackened shades for the low register of Metamorphoses and the modernist soundscape of Nocturne

— Alexandra Coghlan, Gramophone Magazine

Artists

Photograph of Arabella Teniswood-Harvey

Arabella Teniswood-Harvey

piano

Arabella Teniswood-Harvey is a Tasmanian-born pianist who studied in Melbourne and, in 1999, was awarded a full scholarship to the Australian National Academy of Music’s inaugural Advanced Performance Program.

 No photograph: Kenneth Leighton

Kenneth Leighton

composer

 Photograph of Edwin Paling

Edwin Paling

violin

Edwin was born in Nottingham, England. After studying violin with Sidney Griller at the Royal Academy of Music in London, Edwin began his professional career playing with the Orchestra of the Royal Ballet, Covent Garden (London), the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (Sub-Principal First Violin), then the BBC Midland Light Orchestra (Deputy Leader).

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Performers

Technical credits

  • Recording Engineer Vaughan McAlley
  • Editing Engineer Vaughan McAlley
  • Mastering Engineer Martin Wright
  • Venue Move Records Studio
  • Thanks to Arts Tasmania
    Rosalin Lazaroff
    University of Tasmania
  • Credit Alison Lazaroff-Somssich

Details

List price
$25.00 AUD
Total playing time
68 minutes 32 seconds
Release date
Category
Classical
Genres
Modernist Classical, Contemporary Classical
Musical work copyright
© 2013 Move Records
Sound recording copyright
℗ 2013 Move Records
Catalogue
MD 3358
EAN
9314574335828

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