Douglas Gordon Weiland: Chamber Music, Volume One: Works for Violin and Piano
The music of Douglas Gordon Weiland – born, like Elgar, in Worcestershire, in 1954 – is one of the better-kept secrets of British musical life: very little of his substantial catalogue of orchestral, chamber and choral works has been recorded. This first volume in a projected series reveals a composer with an individual musical language, an angular lyricism informed by echoes of Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Frank Martin, its quieter moments having something of the autumn elegance of late Brahms and its more propulsive passages the energy and rough humour of Nielsen and Robert Simpson. Weiland was himself a professional violinist for some years, moreover, and he writes for the instrument with deep understanding.
Markiyan Melnychenko, violin
Rhodri Clarke, piano
Listen To This Recording:
Violin Sonata No. 3, Op. 29 (2000) (22:07)
- I. Allegro molto/Meno allegro (9:56)
- II. Elegy: Adagio (4:46)
- III. Allegro, molto vivace (7:25)
Violin Sonata No. 2, Op. 28 (2000) (12:59)
- Adagio molto, ad libitum – Allegro molto – Quasi Sarabande – Allegro molto – Quasi Sarabade – Allegro molto – Come prima, ad libitum (12:59)
Violin Sonata No. 1, Op. 26 (1999) (14:20)
- I. Allegro amabile (5:08)
- II. Adagio molto (5:07)
- III. Presto (4:05)
- Homage Fantasia for violin and piano, Op. 72, No. 2 (2025) (5:10)
Capriccio for solo violin, Op. 11 (1990) (11:55)
- I. Geschwind. Allegro – Allegro assai (5:04)
- II. Quasi-sarabande (4:01)
- III. Nachdenken (Caprice) (2:50)
- Phantasy Minuet: To a Butterfly for solo violin, Op. 23 (1996) (6:58)
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