Cat No. JM43991
Price £11.95
Composer: Charles Villers Stanford
Arrangers: Robert Childs, Philip Wilby
Category: SOLOS - Euphonium

Euphonium & Piano - Virtuoso Collection

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Charles Villiers Stanford (1852—1 924) was an Irish composer, conductor, organist, and teacher. Both his parents were involved in the legal profession but loved music. They sent their son to public school where he studied classics.

In 1870 he went to Queens’ College, Cambridge, and by the time he graduated four years later, he was destined for a career in music. During his long life many honours were bestowed on him including honorary doctorates from Oxford and Cambridge Universities; he was knighted in 1901. A contemporary of Elgar and Parry, when he died his ashes were buried near Purcell’s grave in Westminster Abbey.
Caoine (pronounced ‘keen’) is the beautiful lament which forms the expressive second movement of Stanford’s Clarinet (or Viola) Sonata, written in 1912. Its long, meandering and sometimes unpredictable phrases need detailed preparation for concert performances, and its musical rewards are unsurpassed.