York Bowen

Written for medium voice and piano.

York Bowen's A Pastel for Solo Piano.

This three-movement work, written in 1953, demonstrates York Bowen's deep understanding of the Piano and displays his marked individuality. York Bowne was a British composer whose fifty-year career mu...

This berceuse or cradle song certainly manifests musically 'rocking' elements, but in a style both Romantic and modern that is Bowen's own creation. York Bowen was a British composer whose fifty-year...

The seemingly endless invention of the 24 Preludes for Piano follows the key scheme employed by Bach in The Well-Tempered Clavier, through a landscape of harmonic subtlety and craftsmanship of the mos...

Published in association with the Royal Academy of Music where York Bowen was professor from 1909 to 1959. The manuscript of this work is part of the Royal Academy of Music's York Bowen Collection.

The Fantasia for Organ has been described as both 'fleshy in its Romanticism' and also, by the composer, as 'quite severe in parts', an apt combination for the vast changes of the beginning of the pos...