Gerard Schurmann: Chamber and Instrumental Music and Songs, Volume Four
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
Listen To This Recording:
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Chuench’i: Song-Cycle from the Chinese (1966)*
- I New Corn
- II Plucking the Rushes
- III Shang Ya!
- IV Flowers and Moonlight on the Spring River
- V Look at that Little Bay of the Chi
- VI Self-abandonment
- VII At the End of Spring
- Moonbird for solo flute
- No. 1 Bellac
- No. 2 Grotto
- No. 3 Rivulets
- No. 4 Solitude
- Sostenuto – Allegro vivace – Lento – Variations 1-5 – Allegro vivace – Sostenuto
- No. 1 Hukvaldy
- No. 2 Brno
- No. 1 Augury
- No. 2 Ah, Sun-flower
- No. 3 I Laid Me Down Upon a Bank
- No. 4 Eternity
- No. 5 The Sick Rose
- No. 6 To the Evening Star
Moonbird for solo flute (1998)*
Four Pastoral Preludes for Piano (2012)*
Sonatina for Flute and Piano (1968)*
Two Ballads for Piano: Homage to Janáçek (1981-83)
Six Songs of William Blake (1956. rev. 1997 and 2018)
ALL EXCEPT* FIRST RECORDINGS
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