This powerful CD expresses the uncertainty - and creative energy - of the period dominated by the two World Wars.
Benjamin Britten's ominous Temporal Variations, written prior to WW II shares a mood with Henri Dutilleux' Sonata, written just after it. Nostalgia is present, too, as in Gerard Finzi's Interlude (1936), and Ravel's tribute to dead soldier friends in his Tombeau de Couperin (1917). The same period produced Eugčne Goossens' Concerto. |
