Easthope Martin: Pyrenean Dancing-Song
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Channel: PSearPianist · 2017 · Music
Phillip Sear plays the last of a set of four pieces entitled 'Song-Music' published in 1923 by the British composer Easthope Martin (1882-1925). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Frederick John) Easthope Martin (1882-1925) studied composition with Coleridge-Taylor at Trinity College in London. He remembered today for an organ piece called 'Evensong', and a song, 'Come to the Fair', and he wrote several song cycles. Martin was also an accomplished pianolist, and worked for the Aeolian Company in London as an organist, pianolist and demonstrator (in 1912 he pedalled a piano roll of the Grieg Piano Concerto accompanied by the London Symphony Orchestra under Artur Nikisch). His early death came as a result of tuberculosis, and in his later years he spent the winters at a friend's house in Monte Carlo to escape the British climate. I'm not sure if this piece is based on an actual Pyrenean tune, but I guess that Martin might well have visited the region in his quest for good health. The thumbnail shows the lithograph 'Danse des Eaux-Bonnes et Laruns (Basses Pyrénées)' by Pierre Gorse (1816-75). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Played by Phillip Sear http://www.psear.co.uk (Email: [email protected] WhatsApp: http://wa.me/441444483794 ) TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@pianogems
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