Gerard Schurmann: Chamber and Instrumental Music and Songs, Volume Four

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Catalogue No: TOCC0520
EAN/UPC: 5060113445209
Release Date: 2019-06-01
Composer: Gerard Schurmann
Artists: Mark Robson, Maxim Rubtsov, Mikahil Korzhev, Randall Bills

This fourth Toccata Classics album of the chamber music of Gerard Schurmann – born in the former Dutch East Indies in 1924, naturalised Briton and now a resident of Los Angeles – adds two major song-cycles (one of them written for Britten and Pears) and works for flute and piano to the mix, in a distinctly personal language derived from influences ranging from Javanese gamelan to Bartók and Britten. Schurmann’s music somehow manages to blend elegant intensity and touching lyricism, with a result balanced between strength and sensitivity.

Randall Bills, tenor; Tracks 1-7, 16-21
Maxim Rubtsov, flute
Mark Robson, piano; Tracks 1-7, 9-12, 13-21
Mikhail Korzhev, piano; Track 13

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    Chuench’i: Song-Cycle from the Chinese (1966)*
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  1. I New Corn
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  3. II Plucking the Rushes
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  5. III Shang Ya!
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  7. IV Flowers and Moonlight on the Spring River
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  9. V Look at that Little Bay of the Chi
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  11. VI Self-abandonment
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  13. VII At the End of Spring
  14. Moonbird for solo flute (1998)*
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  15. Moonbird for solo flute
  16. Four Pastoral Preludes for Piano (2012)*
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  17. No. 1 Bellac
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  19. No. 2 Grotto
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  21. No. 3 Rivulets
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  23. No. 4 Solitude
  24. Sonatina for Flute and Piano (1968)*
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  25. Sostenuto – Allegro vivace – Lento – Variations 1-5 – Allegro vivace – Sostenuto
  26. Two Ballads for Piano: Homage to Janáçek (1981-83)
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  27. No. 1 Hukvaldy
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  29. No. 2 Brno
  30. Six Songs of William Blake (1956. rev. 1997 and 2018)
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  31. No. 1 Augury
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  33. No. 2 Ah, Sun-flower
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  35. No. 3 I Laid Me Down Upon a Bank
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  37. No. 4 Eternity
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  39. No. 5 The Sick Rose
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  41. No. 6 To the Evening Star

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