It's good to see increasing interest in Arnold Cooke's music. This wide-ranging disc of his chamber music gives us a sheaf of first recordings; both piano sonatas and the Flute Quartet are making their first appearances on disc ... good notes. Cooke emerges as a vitalising chamber composer. And how pleasing to get the piano sonatas after so long a wait.
Jonathan Woolf, MusicWeb International, November 2010

Piano Sonata no.1 (1938) RT
(i) Allegro con brio
(ii) Andante
(iii) Molto vivace

Three Songs of Innocence for soprano, clarinet & piano (1957) RT ML LS
words: William Blake
No.1 Piping down the Valleys Wild (Moderato)
No.2 The Shepherd (Andante)
No.3 The Echoing Green (Vivace)

Rondo in B flat for horn & piano (1950): Allegro giocoso RT JJ

Flute Quartet (1936)* PW WZ MG JP
(i) Lento Allegro grazioso
(ii) Variations (Lento)
(iii) Rondo Vivace

Nocturnes a cycle of five songs for voice, horn & piano (1956) RT ML JJ
(i) The Moon (Shelley) Lento ma non troppo
(ii) Returning, We Hear the Larks (Isaac Rosenberg) Allegro moderato
(iii) River Roses (D H Lawrence) Andante
(iv) The Owl (Tennyson) Allegro giocoso
(v) The Boat Song (John Davidson) Andante con moto

Piano Sonata no.2 (1965) RT
(i) Moderato maestoso Allegro molto
(ii) Andante sostenuto
(iii) Allegro energico

RT Raphael Terroni (piano)
ML Melanie Lodge (soprano)
JJ Jonathan Jaggard (horn)
PW Patrick Williams (flute)
LS Lorraine Schulman (clarinet)
WZ Warren Zielinski (violin)
MG Morgan Goff (viola)
JP Justin Pearson (cello)

World premiere recordings except

Recorded at Potton Hall, Suffolk, 15-16 July 2008; *St Silas Church, London 21 July 2008