To this day, it remains a mystery as to why the English composer and pianist York Bowen
has largely fallen into obscurity, and his music is unknown even to experts today – even though Camille Saint-Saëns considered Bowen to be the “best English composer”…
Pianist Nuron Mukumi was immediately fascinated by Bowen’s 24 Preludes, published in 1950 – each prelude has its own character and style, as if they had been written by another composer of the late Romantic period – and yet at the same time they are unified under a distinctive personal idiom that unmistakably marks the preludes as Bowen’s compositions.
