Martin Jones (pianist)

For others persons with a similar name, see Martin Jones (disambiguation)

Album cover for Martin Jones' recording of
Ferruccio Busoni's Elegies on Argo ZRG 741 (1973).

Martin Jones (born 4 February 1940, Witney, England) is an English concert pianist. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London under Guido Agosti, Guy Jonson, and Gordon Green.^[1] He has been highly regarded since debuting in the international arena when he won the Dame Myra Hess award in 1968.^[2]

Career

His London debut was at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in 1968. His New York debut was at Carnegie Hall, also in 1968. Jones has performed with various orchestras throughout the world, including the London Festival Orchestra, the Halle Orchestra, the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, and the BBC Welsh Orchestra. Besides many standard concertos, he has played the Ferruccio Busoni concerto and the Samuel Barber concerto, as well as concertos by William Mathias, John McCabe, Constant Lambert, and Xaver Scharwenka. He toured Canada with the BBC Welsh Orchestra and has given recitals in Florida, Tennessee, and California, a Brahms recital at Wigmore Hall in 1993, and radio broadcasts in Britain, Irleand, and the United States. He was pianist-in-residence at University College, Cardiff, from 1971 to 1983.^[3]

Film score

Jones performed the piano part in the Oscar-nominated soundtrack to Howards End, performing Percy Grainger's Bridal Lullaby and Mock Morris. The score was by Richard Robbins.

Recordings

Jones is a prolific recording artist on the Nimbus Records label. Recordings include:

• Karol Szymanowski: Complete Piano Music (Nimbus)
• Percy Grainger "Dished up for piano": Complete Piano Music (Nimbus)
• Mendelssohn: Complete Piano Music (Nimbus)
• Debussy: Complete Piano Music (Nimbus)
• Brahms: Complete Piano Music (Nimbus)
• Shostakovich: Piano Concertos & Chamber Symphony (Nimbus)
• Finzi, Parry, Bridge: An English Suite (Nimbus)
• Szymanowski: Complete Piano Music Volume 1 (Nimbus)
• Szymanowski: Complete Piano Music Volume 2 (Nimbus)
• Spirit of England II (Nimbus)
• Igor Stravinsky: Piano Music (Nimbus)
• Spanish Piano Music (Nimbus)
• Meditations at Sunset: Finzi, Haydn, Elgar, J. C. Bach, Respighi, Bartok (Nimbus)
• Debussy: Clair de Lune and other Piano Favourites (Nimbus)
• Percy Grainger: Piano Favourites (Nimbus)

Jones also made recordings that were issued on LP:

• Ferruccio Busoni: Elegies (Argo LP ZRG 741; released 1973)
  • Note: Adrian Corleonis of Fanfare ranked this recording as one of the very finest of the Elegies, saying that it strikes "the ideal balance between atmosphere and crackle...."^[4]

References

1. ^ Martin Jones (Piano) - Short Biography
2. ^ Martin Jones
3. ^ International Who's Who in Classical Music 2007, 23rd edition. London: Routledge. p. 387. ISBN 9781857434163. 
4. ^ Adrian Corleonis, Fanfare, 28:4 (Mar/Apr 2005). Subscription required. Accessed 29 November 2009.

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