{"id":15129,"date":"2013-10-06T07:40:11","date_gmt":"2013-10-06T12:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=15129"},"modified":"2013-10-06T07:40:11","modified_gmt":"2013-10-06T12:40:11","slug":"salon-des-oublies-british-composer-york-bowens-magnificent-clarinet-sonata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2013\/10\/06\/salon-des-oublies-british-composer-york-bowens-magnificent-clarinet-sonata\/","title":{"rendered":"Salon des oubli\u00e9s: British composer York Bowen&#8217;s magnificent Clarinet Sonata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/10\/bowen.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15130\" alt=\"bowen\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/10\/bowen.jpg\" width=\"224\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/10\/bowen.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/10\/bowen-211x300.jpg 211w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a>The anniversary year sometimes makes it sound like Benjamin Britten &#8212; genius or not &#8212; was the only art music composer to grace the British Isles in the 20th century. There were other greats, including York Bowen (1884-1961), eclipsed by fashion, not necessarily better music.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Bowen went from being a pianistic sensation much like Sergei Rachmaninov before World War I, to a marginal figure when tastes changed.<\/p>\n<p>Pianist Stephen Hough is one of Bowen&#8217;s 21st century champions, and head of the 5-year-old York Bowen Society (check it out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yorkbowen.co.uk\/ybsociety.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The music says it all.<\/p>\n<p>Here, for a rainy Sunday known groggily in Toronto as the day after Nuit Blanche, is a broad-shouldered <em>Clarinet Sonata<\/em> that turned 70 this year, very nicely played by the Endymion Ensemble:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qkx9aQ7v9lc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p><em>John Terauds<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The anniversary year sometimes makes it sound like Benjamin Britten &#8212; genius or not &#8212; was the only art music composer to grace the British Isles in the 20th century. There were other greats, including York Bowen (1884-1961), eclipsed by fashion, not necessarily better music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,10,18,36,42,47,54,71],"tags":[3992,3993,3991,6454,3990],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/10\/bowen.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-3W1","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15129"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15133,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15129\/revisions\/15133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15129"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=15129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}