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Track(s) taken from CDA67903

Homage

composer
Sir Eugene Goossens (1893-1962)
published by Boosey & Hawkes, New York, in the 1942 volume Homage to Paderewksi; based on Chopin's Prelude in C minor

Jonathan Plowright (piano)
Recording details: January 2011
Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, United Kingdom
Produced by Jeremy Hayes
Engineered by Tony Faulkner
Release date: November 2011
Total duration: 2 minutes 21 seconds

Cover artwork: Adaptation of the cover illustration for Homage to Paderewski (Boosey & Hawkes, 1942).
 

British-born and educated, a composer as well as a conductor, Eugene Goossens was working as conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in Ohio at the outbreak of World War II. Goossens’ Homage is based on Chopin’s Prelude in C minor.

from notes by Joseph A Herter © 2011

Né et éduqué en Grande-Bretagne, le compositeur et chef d’orchestre Eugene Goossens dirigeait le Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, dans l’Ohio, quand éclata la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Son Homage repose sur le Prélude en ut mineur de Chopin.

extrait des notes rédigées par Joseph A Herter © 2011
Français: Hypérion

Der in England geborene und ausgebildete Komponist und Dirigent Eugene Goossens war beim Ausbruch des Zweiten Weltkriegs als Dirigent des Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in Ohio tätig. Goossens’ Homage beruht auf Chopins Prelude in c-Moll.

aus dem Begleittext von Joseph A Herter © 2011
Deutsch: Christiane Frobenius

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