Ernest John Moeran - Summer Valley
Composer: Ernest John Moeran (31 December 1894 -- 1 December 1950)
Performer: Paul Guinery
Year of recording: 2011
Summer Valley, for piano, written in 1925.
One movement marked: Andante con moto
Moeran dedicated this piece "To Frederick Delius", whom he fervently admired ever since hearing his Piano Concerto while still a student. Delius's style is imitated in a beautiful Sicilienne, a form often used in Delius's tone poems. The layout of Summer Valley seems to show Moeran thinking more of orchestral colour than of the textures of the piano.