Miniatures tend to be written quickly and therefore may be said to have a ‘postcard’ quality. For this recital, we present British Piano miniatures from every decade from 1900 to the present day. The recital is centred on – but not limited to – music from Duncan Honeybourne’s acclaimed CD ‘A Hundred Years of British Piano Miniatures’ which was released on the Naxos Grand Piano label in 2018. Pieces in this concert marked as follows - * - are included on the CD.
Programme
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Cyril Scott
Lotus Land Arnold Bax The Maiden with the Daffodil Leo Livens Moonbeams* Evangeline Livens Shadows* John Ireland The Towing Path E.J. Moeran The Lake Island Reginald Redman On the Cornish Coast Constance Warren Idyll in G flat major* Arthur Butterworth Lakeland Summer Night - Rain* C.Headington Italian Dance* John Longmire Regent Street* ~interval~ Howard Skempton Quavers* John White Sonata 105 Anthony Adams Ten Pieces David Power Eight Miniatures* Peter Reynolds Penllyn David Lancaster Montmarte |
*This piece is included on the One Hundred Years of British Piano Miniatures CD by Duncan Honeybourne on the Naxos Grand Piano label in 2018
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Duncan Honeybourne |
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Duncan Honeybourne enjoys a diverse profile as a pianist and in music education. Reviews have commended his “gripping performances” (The Times), “glittering performances” (International Piano), “fine, sensitive playing” (Gramophone) and “great technical facility and unfailing imagination” (Musical Opinion).
Honeybourne made his debut as concerto soloist at Symphony Hall, Birmingham, and the National Concert Hall, Dublin, in 1998, and gave recital debuts in London, Dublin, Paris and at international festivals in Belgium and Switzerland. Since then he has toured extensively in the UK, Ireland and Europe as solo and lecture recitalist, concerto soloist and chamber musician, appearing at many major venues and leading festivals. His solo performances have been frequently broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and more than 20 networks worldwide, including French, Belgian, Austrian, Swiss and German radio, ABC (Australia) and Radio New Zealand. He has premiered over 80 solo piano works written for him by composers including John Joubert, John Casken, Cecilia McDowall and Sadie Harrison, plus the Andrew Downes Piano Concerto at Birmingham Town Hall. Duncan has also revived many forgotten scores by composers of earlier generations and was invited by the BBC to give the world premiere of two rediscovered piano preludes by English romantic composer Susan Spain-Dunk in a live Radio 3 recital from St David’s Hall, Cardiff. Duncan’s extensive discography includes premiere recordings of piano music by Baines, Bainton, Pitfield, Greville Cooke, Christopher Edmunds, Armstrong Gibbs, Walford Davies and Imogen Holst, as well as many contemporary works.
Duncan Honeybourne teaches at the Royal Academy of Music Junior Academy, the University of Southampton and Sherborne School. He has adjudicated and given masterclasses at conservatoires and universities in the UK and Ireland, and has written and published widely on music and musicians. At home in Dorset he is Founder/Artistic Director of Chamber Music Weymouth.
Honeybourne made his debut as concerto soloist at Symphony Hall, Birmingham, and the National Concert Hall, Dublin, in 1998, and gave recital debuts in London, Dublin, Paris and at international festivals in Belgium and Switzerland. Since then he has toured extensively in the UK, Ireland and Europe as solo and lecture recitalist, concerto soloist and chamber musician, appearing at many major venues and leading festivals. His solo performances have been frequently broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and more than 20 networks worldwide, including French, Belgian, Austrian, Swiss and German radio, ABC (Australia) and Radio New Zealand. He has premiered over 80 solo piano works written for him by composers including John Joubert, John Casken, Cecilia McDowall and Sadie Harrison, plus the Andrew Downes Piano Concerto at Birmingham Town Hall. Duncan has also revived many forgotten scores by composers of earlier generations and was invited by the BBC to give the world premiere of two rediscovered piano preludes by English romantic composer Susan Spain-Dunk in a live Radio 3 recital from St David’s Hall, Cardiff. Duncan’s extensive discography includes premiere recordings of piano music by Baines, Bainton, Pitfield, Greville Cooke, Christopher Edmunds, Armstrong Gibbs, Walford Davies and Imogen Holst, as well as many contemporary works.
Duncan Honeybourne teaches at the Royal Academy of Music Junior Academy, the University of Southampton and Sherborne School. He has adjudicated and given masterclasses at conservatoires and universities in the UK and Ireland, and has written and published widely on music and musicians. At home in Dorset he is Founder/Artistic Director of Chamber Music Weymouth.