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Hubert Hales: Allemande, #1 from 'Monkswood' (An English Suite), Op.33

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Channel: PSearPianist · 2014 · Music

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Here is a piece from a 1946 suite by the English composer Hubert Hales (1902-65).  Hales, himself educated at Eton, became head of music at Gresham's School in Norfolk, succeeding Walter Greatorex - teacher there of Benjamin Britten.  You can see a picture of Hales at Gresham's here: http://bit.ly/1zkmhM1 . In 1925 he conducted his own 'Twelth Night' overture at a Promenade Concert in London, sharing the podium with Henry Wood - he was obviously a precocious talent as he was already conducting a church choir in his home village of Hanham, Gloucestershire when he was 17.  However, his published works seem to consist entirely of short piano and organ pieces and songs.  Monkswood is a village in Monmouthshire, not far from Hanham.  This Allemande is written in a vaguely pastoral English style, but reminds me a little of Herbert Howells in its use of harmonic suspensions.

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