Jean Coulthard - Aegean Sketches for piano

Alice Li - Piano
00:00 The valley of the butterflies
03:26 Wine Dark Sea
07:48 The legend (The palace of knossos)
Jean Coulthard (1908-2000) was a Canadian Composer. Through her mother she received her earliest musical training and was introduced at an early age to the work of French composers like Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel, both of whom were lifelong influences.
A scholarship from the Vancouver Woman's Musical Club enabled her to pursue studies at the Royal College of Music in 1928-1929 where she was a pupil of Kathleen Long, R.O. Morris, and Ralph Vaughan Williams.
She studied in the 1930s and early 1940s with such composers as Béla Bartók, Aaron Copland, and Arnold Schoenberg.
In 1956-7, she spent a year in Paris and in Roquebrune, southern France, beginning an opera and completing several substantial chamber and vocal works. A later sabbatical in London permitted Coulthard to work in a sustained way with Gordon Jacob, the British composer and orchestrator.
She was one of a trio of women composers who dominated Western Canadian music in the twentieth century: Coulthard, Barbara Pentland, and Violet Archer. All three died within weeks of each other in 2000.
Coulthard's composition students included Canadian composers Chan Ka Nin, Michael Conway Baker, Sylvia Rickard, Ernst Schneider, Robert Knox, Jean Ethridge, Joan Hansen, David Gordon Duke, Lloyd Burritt and Frederick Schipizky.
Some of her well-known compositions include Cradle Song, Threnody, Canadian Fantasy, Ballade "A Winter's Tale" and her opera Return of the Native.
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[@jfpary7336]

Canadian composer. 1908-2000. She composed this piece in 1961.

[@waterfale3356]

in the valley of the butterflies the descending line sort of resembled ravel's une barque sur l'ocean, which is pretty cool.

[@deodatdechampignac]

C'est magnifique ! Merci pour cette belle découverte !

[@erikfreitas7093]

Love the fluttering, shifting tonalities of the first one

[@CatkhosruShapurrjiFurabji]

Amazing works

[@robertcohn8858]

This is delightful! I have never heard of Jean Coulthard, but I will try to listen to more of her work. The fact that she studied under RVW is a major plus in my opinion. Thanks very much for posting.

[@KristianWolfe]

To the two people who gave this work 2 thumbs down - you're criminals...

[@PieInTheSky9]

Hm, no composer info this time? Very exotic sounding piece, I quite enjoy it.

[@MichaelConwayBaker]

One of her best pieces. Who is the performer?

[@felixp7]

what are the dates of the composer?

[@nektoidus]

1908-2000