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Alan Rawsthorne - Ballade

This work was Commissioned by the Cardiff Festival of 20th-Century Music. Written in 1967 and premièred on 1967/03/20 by John Ogdon (1937-1989), the dedicatee of this piece. Alan Rawsthorne was born in 1905 in Haslingden, Lancashire, to doctor Hubert Rawsthorne and his wife Janet Bridge. Despite having lived a happy and affectionate family life with his family in the countryside, as a boy Rawsthorne suffered from fragile health. Although he did at various times attend schools in Southport, much of his early education came through private tutoring at home. Despite his childhood aptitude for music and literature, Rawsthorne's parents tried to steer him away from his dreams of becoming a professional musician. As a result, he unsuccessfully tried to take on degree courses at Liverpool University, first in dentistry and then architecture. In 1925, Rawsthorne was finally able to enrol at the Royal Manchester College of Music, where his teachers included Frank Merrick for the piano and Carl Fuchs for the cello. After graduating around 1930, the composer spent the next couple of years pursuing his piano training with Egon Petri in Poland. On his return to England in 1932, Rawsthorne took up a post as pianist and teacher at Dartington Hall in Devon, where he became composer-in-residence for the School of Dance and Mime. In 1934, he left for London to try his fortune as a freelance composer. His first real public success arrived four years later with a performance of his Theme and Variations for Two Violins at the 1938 International Society for Contemporary Music Festival in London. The next year, his large-scale Symphonic Studies for orchestra was performed in Warsaw, again at the ISCM Festival, which rapidly helped Rawsthorne establish himself as a composer possessing a highly distinctive musical voice. He was a quite prolific composer, writing a viola sonata, different concerti (two for piano, two for violin, one for oboe, one for cello and one for string orchestra), three symphonies and other chamber works. Rawsthorne also wrote a number of film scores. His best–known work in this field was the music for the 1953 British war film The Cruel Sea, along many other popular British films of the 40’s and 50’s. In 1934 Rawsthorne married his first wife Jessie Hinchcliffe, a violinist in the Philharmonia Orchestra. After divorcing in 1954, he married Isabel Nicholas, an artist and model well known in the Paris who worked with André Derain, Pablo Picasso and Francis Bacon. Interestingly, she was the widow of composer Constant Lambert and stepmother to Kit Lambert, manager of the rock group The Who. Alan Rawsthorne died in 1971 and was buried in Essex. (Wikipedia) Performer: John Ogdon Original audio:    • Ballade   Score: https://imslp.org/imglnks/restimg/b/b5/4bf...