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May 17, 1994 · Discover Howells: Lambert's Clavichord; Howell's Clavichord by John McCabe released in 1994. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
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Lambert lent Howells a clavichord and Howells thanked him by writing the first piece of Lambert's Clavichord - Lambert's Fireside, written indeed by Lambert's hearth in Bath. On Lambert's death, Howells tried to persuade a number of other composers who had been photographed by Lambert to pay tribute to him through a series of pieces.
Jan 30, 2017 · There is something gentlemanly about the way Howells absorbs and combines the styles of old music, and the music of his contemporaries (he directly quotesRubbra, Dyson, and Walton in the pieces dedicated to those composers), with music of a distinctly developed ‘Howellsian’ flavour.
It was a Dolmetsch (1925) clavichord for Lambert’s Clavichord and one by Bavington (2015) for Howell’s Clavichord. Two pieces, ‘Goff’s Fireside’ and ‘Patrick’s Siciliano’ are played here on a Thomas Goff clavichord, made in 1952.
Nov 1, 2017 · His two sets of pieces for clavichord, ‘Lambert’s Clavichord’ and ‘Howells’ Clavichord’, pay homage to Tudor keyboard music such as the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, with which Howells would have been familiar, and exploit the same textures, gestures, idioms, cadences, piquant harmonies and expression inherent in Tudor keyboard works.
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Howells: Lambert's Clavichord & Howells' Clavichord John McCabe (piano) Anyone who enjoys, say, Grieg's Holberg Suite or Respighi's Ancient Airs and Dances will adore these treasurable, miniature distillations of the English Tudor tradition.
