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 Song-Cycles and Chamber Music
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Song-Cycles and Chamber Music
JOUBERT, John

Catalogue Number: TOCC0045
EAN: 5060113440457
Release Date: 09 July 2007
Duration: 76:24

Improvisation, Op. 120, for recorder and piano
Kontakion, Op. 69, for cello and piano
Shropshire Hills, Op. 155, for high voice and piano
Six Poems by Emily Brontë, Op. 63, for soprano and piano
The Hour Hand, Op. 101, for soprano and recorder
The Rose is Shaken in the Wind, Op. 137, for soprano and recorder

Lesley-Jane Rogers, soprano
John Turner, recorder
Richard Tunnicliffe, cello
John McCabe, piano

The music of John Joubert – born in 1927 in Cape Town, a student at the Royal Academy of Music in London in the 1940s and ’50s, and Birmingham-based since 1962 – has a strong sense of melody, his beguiling lyricism combining with an acute sensitivity to words to produce songs that are both colourful and evocative. These four song-cycles pay tribute to the places and poets that inspired them. And his chamberworks, drawing on a rich instrumental palette and haunting melodic lines, are memorable and dramatically effective.

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Track No. Track Title/Details Duration Sample Download Track
  The Hour Hand, Op. 101, for soprano and recorder (1982)
John Joubert, composer
Lesley-Jane Rogers, soprano
John Turner, recorder

(first recording)
9:09
1 The Hour Hand 1:55
2 Cock 'round the Clock 1:22
3 Horizontal Beams 1:58
4 Low Tide 1:08
5 Winter Sun 2:46
  Shropshire Hills, Op. 155, for high voice and piano (1982)
John Joubert, composer
Lesley-Jane Rogers, soprano
John McCabe, piano

(first recording)
12:44
6 Shropshire Hills 4:07
7 Early Spring in the Marches 3:34
8 Clun Forest 5:03
9 Improvisation, Op. 120, for recorder and piano (1982)
John Joubert, composer
John Turner, recorder
John McCabe, piano

(first recording)
6:14
10 Kontakion, Op. 69, for cello and piano (1982)
John Joubert, composer
Richard Tunnicliffe, cello
John McCabe, piano

(first recording)
13:29
  The Rose is Shaken in the Wind, Op. 137, for soprano and recorder (1982)
John Joubert, composer
Lesley-Jane Rogers, soprano
John Turner, recorder

(first recording)
10:33
11 Spring Day in Arrowtown 2:24
12 Tombstone Song 2:24
13 The Gardener's Song 1:37
14 The Rose is Shaken in the Wind 4:08
  Six Poems by Emily Brontë, Op. 63, for soprano and piano (1982)
John Joubert, composer
Lesley-Jane Rogers, soprano
John McCabe, piano

(first recording)
24:15
15 Harp 2:23
16 Sleep 5:00
17 Oracle 3:17
18 Storm 2:55
19 Caged Bird 3:25
20 Immortality 7:15

Artists

John Joubert

John Joubert, composer

John Turner

John Turner, recorder

Richard Tunnicliffe

Richard Tunnicliffe, cello

John McCabe

John McCabe, piano

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