℗ 2021 EM Records
Released | December 3, 2021 |
Duration | 2h 36m 30s |
Record Label | EM Records |
Catalogue No. | EMRCD070-71 |
Genre | Classical (Instrumental) |
De Profundis Clamavi
Duncan Honeybourne
Available in 96 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
Piano Sonata in B Minor
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1.1
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I. Allegro, fieramente e rubato
Christopher Edmunds; Duncan Honeybourne |
7:53 | |||
1.2
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Ii. Lento e mesto
Christopher Edmunds; Duncan Honeybourne |
4:31 | |||
1.3
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Iii. Allegro scherzoso (poco rubato)
Christopher Edmunds; Duncan Honeybourne |
4:53 | |||
1.4
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Variations and Fugue in B Minor, op. 1
Edgar Bainton; Duncan Honeybourne |
11:47 | |||
1.5
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An Essex Rhapsody, op.36
Cecil Armstrong Gibbs; Duncan Honeybourne |
7:34 | |||
1.6
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Ballade in D flat
Cecil Armstrong Gibbs; Duncan Honeybourne |
4:16 | |||
Nocturnus V
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1.7
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Wind oor die Branders
Richard Pantcheff; Duncan Honeybourne |
4:16 | |||
Shulbrede Tunes
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1.8
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I. Shulbrede
Hubert Parry; Duncan Honeybourne |
2:10 | |||
1.9
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Ii. Elizabeth
Hubert Parry; Duncan Honeybourne |
2:04 | |||
1.10
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Iii. Dolly no. 1
Hubert Parry; Duncan Honeybourne |
2:27 | |||
1.11
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Iv. Bogies and Sprites That Gambol by Nights
Hubert Parry; Duncan Honeybourne |
2:50 | |||
1.12
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V. Matthew
Hubert Parry; Duncan Honeybourne |
3:11 | |||
1.13
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Vi. Prior's Chamber by Firelight
Hubert Parry; Duncan Honeybourne |
6:07 | |||
1.14
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Vii. Children's Pranks
Hubert Parry; Duncan Honeybourne |
3:12 | |||
1.15
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Viii. Dolly no. 2
Hubert Parry; Duncan Honeybourne |
3:47 | |||
1.16
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Ix. In the Garden with the Dew on the Grass
Hubert Parry; Duncan Honeybourne |
2:24 | |||
1.17
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X. Father Playmate
Hubert Parry; Duncan Honeybourne |
5:26 | |||
2.1
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Willows
Edgar Bainton; Duncan Honeybourne |
6:49 | |||
2.2
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The Making of the Nightingale
Edgar Bainton; Duncan Honeybourne |
3:03 | |||
Piano Sonata
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2.3
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I. Lento ma non troppo – Andante ben moderato – Allegro energico
Frank Bridge; Duncan Honeybourne |
16:04 | |||
2.4
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Ii. Andante ben moderato
Frank Bridge; Duncan Honeybourne |
9:43 | |||
2.5
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Iii. Lento – Allegro non troppo
Frank Bridge; Duncan Honeybourne |
9:57 | |||
2.6
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Night Piece (Notturno)
Benjamin Britten; Duncan Honeybourne |
6:51 | |||
2.7
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I. Inquieto
Richard Pantcheff; Duncan Honeybourne |
6:36 | |||
2.8
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Ii. Elegia: Lento e tenebroso
Richard Pantcheff; Duncan Honeybourne |
10:21 | |||
2.9
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Iii. Alla vortice
Richard Pantcheff; Duncan Honeybourne |
8:18 | |||
Digital Booklet
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De Profundis Clamavi is a two-disc recording of English piano music, contrasting three dramatic sonatas with a vibrant selection of shorter pieces ranging from the sublimely poetic to the darkly rhapsodic.
Frank Bridge began writing his grandiose Piano Sonata exactly a century ago, in the wake of the First World War, and it is suffused with a mood of desolation and torment. Contemporary composer Richard Pantcheff's own sonata was completed in 2017 and evokes a similarly intense emotional landscape; hence the quote from Psalm 130 that gives the album it's name ("Out of the deep have I called unto Thee, O Lord"). Also here making it's first recorded appearance, the 1938 Sonata by Christopher Edmunds bubbles over with vivid pianistic colours, melting tenderness and an irresistible romantic warmth. The three sonatas are complemented and contextualised by Parry's delicious Shulbrede Tunes - affectionate portraits of the composer's family and their Sussex home - plus the first recordings of two stunning romantic showpieces by a composer better known for his vocal writing, Cecil Armstrong Gibbs. Three unpublished - and previously unrecorded - gems by Edgar Bainton add further distinctiveness to the disc.
Many links of friendship and association underpin the selection of composers represented on the discs, and a special pedagogical thread connects the sonatas of Bridge and Pantcheff. The young Richard Pantcheff was mentored by Benjamin Britten, Bridge's most celebrated student, and Britten is represented by his captivating Night Piece, composed for the first Leeds International Piano Competition. Duncan Honeybourne studied the work with the competition's founder, Dame Fanny Waterman, who commissioned it in 1963 and died recently at the age of one hundred.
"It was a joy to devise this programme, featuring some masterpieces I've known for a long time and love dearly, alongside the stunning Pantcheff Sonata, which I premiered in 2019 in London at an English Music Festival concert. It is a special privilege to present the recorded premieres of some terrific pieces that have languished in manuscript for many decades, and I hope listeners will get as much pleasure from hearing these wonderful gems as I have from all the excavation and preparation. It's a great honour to bring them all together on this release."
- Duncan Honeybourne
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – EM Records Studio Masters
Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -4.92 -17.36 to -0.12 | -27.02 -38.94 to -20.69 | -23.29 -35.50 to -17.30 | 13 11 to 17 | |
1.1 | I. Allegro, fieramente e rubato | -1.77 | -20.69 | -17.3 | 12 |
1.2 | Ii. Lento e mesto | -2.73 | -29.28 | -23.7 | 16 |
1.3 | Iii. Allegro scherzoso (poco rubato) | -0.86 | -20.94 | -17.9 | 12 |
1.4 | Variations and Fugue in B Minor, op. 1 | -2.93 | -25.76 | -22.5 | 14 |
1.5 | An Essex Rhapsody, op.36 | -1.02 | -21.98 | -18.6 | 13 |
1.6 | Ballade in D flat | -3.01 | -22.45 | -18.2 | 12 |
1.7 | Wind oor die Branders | -4.97 | -30.21 | -25.9 | 15 |
1.8 | I. Shulbrede | -3.46 | -22.71 | -19.2 | 11 |
1.9 | Ii. Elizabeth | -8.38 | -29.38 | -26.4 | 13 |
1.10 | Iii. Dolly no. 1 | -5.37 | -28.21 | -24.8 | 12 |
1.11 | Iv. Bogies and Sprites That Gambol by Nights | -3.31 | -25.67 | -20.5 | 13 |
1.12 | V. Matthew | -8.77 | -29.12 | -26.1 | 13 |
1.13 | Vi. Prior's Chamber by Firelight | -5.20 | -32.87 | -29.1 | 17 |
1.14 | Vii. Children's Pranks | -5.10 | -25.44 | -21.6 | 13 |
1.15 | Viii. Dolly no. 2 | -11.73 | -33.09 | -29.9 | 13 |
1.16 | Ix. In the Garden with the Dew on the Grass | -11.18 | -30.38 | -27.3 | 11 |
1.17 | X. Father Playmate | -1.14 | -21.30 | -18.4 | 12 |
2.1 | Willows | -4.40 | -29.47 | -25.7 | 16 |
2.2 | The Making of the Nightingale | -14.47 | -34.24 | -30.9 | 13 |
2.3 | I. Lento ma non troppo – Andante ben moderato – Allegro energico | -0.43 | -23.01 | -18.7 | 14 |
2.4 | Ii. Andante ben moderato | -4.69 | -31.38 | -26.6 | 16 |
2.5 | Iii. Lento – Allegro non troppo | -0.12 | -21.45 | -17.4 | 12 |
2.6 | Night Piece (Notturno) | -3.32 | -30.32 | -26.1 | 16 |
2.7 | I. Inquieto | -1.92 | -22.17 | -18.9 | 12 |
2.8 | Ii. Elegia: Lento e tenebroso | -17.36 | -38.94 | -35.5 | 14 |
2.9 | Iii. Alla vortice | -0.35 | -22.00 | -18.3 | 13 |