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Tutor in Piano Duncan Honeybourne updates us on his recent performances and recordings:<\/em><\/p>\n

My latest CD on the EM Records label, recorded in the Turner Sims Concert Hall last year, received four stars in the June edition of the BBC Music Magazine. A Western Borderland <\/em>features piano music by composers associated with the Welsh border counties and includes world premiere recordings of an early Theme and Variations by Walford Davies (which Honeybourne discovered in manuscript in the RCM Library) and Ivor Gurney\u2019s Five Western Watercolours, plus the impressionistic Fantasy Sonata by Richard Francis, which he premiered in 2007. BBC Music Magazine <\/em><\/strong>wrote: It\u2019s fun to hear from Walford Davies in his student days, flamboyantly building up his 1890 Theme and Variations from a docile, hymn-like melody. Honeybourne treats his enterprising repertoire with respect and affection<\/em>. MusicWeb International<\/em><\/strong> reported: Honeybourne has given a wonderful, inspired account of all these pieces\u2026.a wonderful CD<\/em>. The disc has already received several broadcasts on Radio New Zealand Concert and in the USA.<\/p>\n

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In April, I\u00a0recorded the complete violin and piano music of Sir Hubert Parry with violinist Rupert Marshall-Luck, for release by EM Records as a 3-CD boxed set this autumn. This summer I have\u00a0given solo recitals in Belgium, Switzerland and France, as well as in various parts of the UK. The\u00a0programmes featured music by several British composers, including Sterndale Bennett, who was born 200 years ago, and Rubbra, who died 30 years ago. My\u00a0recital for Late Music York, <\/em>in August at St Saviourgate Unitarian Chapel, traced a journey through a century of British piano miniatures in a programme entitled Piano Postcards, 1916-2016. <\/em>Composers included Morfydd Owen, Leo and Evangeline Livens, Constance Warren, John Longmire, Arthur Butterworth and Howard Skempton. 2016 was represented by the world premiere of a Meditation on the Old Welsh Hymn Tune Penllyn<\/em>, dedicated to me\u00a0by Welsh composer and RWCMD Lecturer Peter Reynolds, who sadly\u00a0died suddenly on October 11th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

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