Roger wrote:
>>>Who's Hurlstone? A name new to me, unless it's some horribly obvious
>>>pun on Purcell or Tippett or someone which I'm being too dim to spot.
>>
>>William Hurlstone (1876-1906), born and died in London. Premiered
>>his piano concerto but his asthma prevented a career as a pianist.
>>Became professor of counterpoint at RCM. There was a Lyrita CD of
>>some orchestral music and, IIRC, an LP containing his piano concerto.
>>...
>
>I had that Lyrita CD for a while (was it orchestral music? I thought
>it was chamber music) but didn't care much for it and eventually sold
>it. I remember almost nothing about it. For a while, when it was hard
>to get Lyrita LPs, that Hurlstone disc seemed to be readily available
>at Berkshire and other places.
There were (at least) two Lyritas, one orchestral, the other chamber
music: SRCS 100, his Piano Concerto with Eric Partin, pno. and Fantasy
Variations on a Swedish Air, both with the LPO under Nicholas Braithwaite,
and SRCS 117, his Quartet in E-minor, Op. 43 and Trio in G for Violin,
Cello and Piano, performed by the Tunnell Piano Quartet. I have both.
Gene
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