Jamie Walton & Daniel Grimwood: new CD
Jamie Walton cello and Daniel Grimwood piano have now released a new CD for Signum Records. This brings together three twentieth-century cello sonatas – by Britten, Shostakovich and Prokofiev. If you attended their concert at Cratfield in September 2010, you’ll remember hearing both the Britten op 65 and the Shostakovich op 40.
Of the new CD, Ben Hogwood on www.classicalsource.com says: ‘This is another successful disc for a partnership that clearly enjoys playing and recording together. Their forthright style in each of these three pieces pays dividends, and when all three are listened to consecutively they serve as an appropriate reminder of Rostropovich’s incalculable influence on the cello repertoire of the 20th-century.’
Jamie and Danny return to Cratfield on Sunday 22 July 2012, joined by Min-Jin Kym violin. They play piano trios by Rachmaninov, Shostakovich (the dramatic and Klezmer-inflected piano trio no 2 in E minor from 1944, dedicated to the memory of the composer’s friend Ivan Sollertinsky) and Schubert. Click here for the page about their concert.
More recently, Jamie has been recording the three Britten solo cello suites in the Britten Studio at Snape, also for Signum, for release in the Britten anniversary year of 2013.