Cotswold Ways: Chamber Music of Gurney and Howells

Jonathan Musgrave piano
Willemijn Steenbakkers violin
Edgar Bailey, Zoë Matthews, Frédérique Legrand & Jonathan Musgrave piano quartet
Alessandro Ruisi, Agata Darashkaite, Jessica Tickle & Jane Lindsay string quartet
Michael Butchard tenor
Alessandro Ruisi & Agata Darashkaite violins
Jessica Tickle viola
Jane Lindsay cello
Jennifer Carter piano


Gurney Piano Sonata in D minor (world premiere)
Howells Violin Sonata no 1
Howells Piano Quartet in A minor op 21
Howells String Quartet no 3 'In Gloucestershire'
Gurney Ludlow and Teme


This concert includes the world premiere of Ivor Gurney’s Piano Sonata in D minor, recently discovered in the RCM Library by RCM Junior Fellow Jonathan Musgrave, who has transcribed and edited it especially for this evening’s concert.

Also on the programme are works by Gurney’s close friend (and fellow RCM student) Herbert Howells, including his Piano Quartet dedicated “to the Hill at Chosen and Ivor Gurney who knows it”. Closing the concert is Gurney’s song cycle Ludlow and Teme for voice, string quartet and piano.