Product DescriptionKenneth Leighton wrote his first work for solo cello as a 20-year-old student at
The Queen s College, Oxford. Completed on New Year s Eve of 1949, the piece
was a sonata in three movements in F minor. Though it unfortunately does not
remain intact, it was the provenance of the earliest work on this disc, the Elegy
for cello and piano, Op. 5. Leighton would continue to write for the cello on a
regular basis, with a plethora of compositions that include the instrument in
various guises: as a solo instrument, with piano, in a concerto role, in various
chamber permutations, and within an orchestra. This particular collection
focuses on the substantial contribution of solo works (including those with
piano) that Leighton made to the cello repertoire.