VIDEOS
BBC FOUR: THE POET WHO LOVED THE WAR

In March 2014 BBC Four broadcast ‘The Poet who loved the War: Ivor Gurney’, a moving and thought-provoking documentary which examined Gurney’s poetry and music and the ways in which both were influenced by the events he experienced and the people he met during the First World War. Gurney’s music provided a backdrop to the documentary, and this included several excerpts from the Sonata in E-flat major for Violin and Piano, performed by Rupert Marshall-Luck and Matthew Rickard and taken from their World Première recording of the work for EM Records (available on EMR CD011).

 

The sections of the film for which the Sonata provides a setting can be viewed using the player below. This compilation has been made with the generous agreement of Michael Poole, the documentary’s Executive Producer; the Director, Clive Flowers; and the Director of Photography, Ryan Owen Eddleston. Thanks are also due to Eileen Griffiths, through the F.W. Harvey Society, and The Gurney Trust for permission to incorporate the sections of film showing photographs of Harvey and Gurney respectively.

Director of Photography | RYAN OWEN EDDLESTON

Director | CLIVE FLOWERS

Executive Producer | MICHAEL POOLE

 

First broadcast on BBC FOUR at 9pm on 30 March 2014

 

Video compilation | RUPERT MARSHALL-LUCK

 

 

REVIEWS
Beautifully shaped by Benjamin Frith... Beguiling sounds, graced by the tawny richness and unexaggerated line of Richard Jenkinson’s cello playing... The sense of purpose and sureness of line of Ian Venables’ music is pure oxygen.
EMR CD31 | BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE
Exquisitely rewarding... Ravishing accounts.
EMR CD029 | CHOIR AND ORGAN
This is music of great beauty and integrity and the performances fully do it justice. It would be criminal to let it pass you by.

EMR CD028 | INTERNATIONAL
RECORD REVIEW

The Bridge Quartet approach these pieces with a sympathetic and insightful warmth, and confirm their ambassadorial credentials for British chamber music. A lovely, radiant disc.
EMR CD025 | Gramophone
Duncan Honeybourne’s playing is astonishingly affectionate, yet never saccharine... Honeybourne plays with suave confidence.
EMR CD024 | INTERNATIONAL PIANO
Rupert Marshall-Luck is an ideal interpreter: generously but not effusively lyrical; agile and athletic... The warm, folk-song like slow movement is at times almost painfully beautiful, with a shimmering pastoral central section... Marshall-Luck is, again, indefatigable and keenly picks up on the work’s melancholic strain.  Finely recorded and with comprehensive booklet notes, this is a must for fans of 20th-century English repertoire.
EMR CD023 | THE STRAD