Artist: Leighton / Wallfisch / Terroni

Title: Complete Chamber Works for Cello

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Format: CD

Release Date: 2015

Label: Naxos

UPC: 747313135875

Genre: Classical

Album Tracks

1. Elegy
2. Scherzo
3. Theme and Variations: Theme
4. Variation I: Allegro Inquieto
5. Variation II: Ostinato
6. Variation III: March
7. Variation IV: Appassionato
8. Variation V: Waltz
9. Variation VI: Chorale
10. Elegy, Op. 5
11. Lament and Pizzicato - Raphael Wallfisch
12. Toccata and Cradle Song - Raphael Wallfisch
13. Flourish, Chaconne and Coda - Raphael Wallfisch
14. Alleluia Pascha Nostrum, Op. 85

Kenneth Leighton's distinctive gifts as a composer were apparent as early as the première of his Cello Concerto, when he was barely 26. It was an instrument for which he wrote with particular subtlety and often from an inner compulsion. The Elegy, Op. 5 is full of brilliance, lyricism and mystery whilst by the time he wrote the rhapsodic and expressive Sonata for Solo Cello, Op. 52, his position as one of Britain's leading composers had long been cemented. The beautiful Alleluia Pascha Nostrum, Op. 85 was first performed by the soloist on this disc, Raphael Wallfisch.