Violinist
Photo: Piotr Malek
Elowen Hart is a violinist from Painswick, in the Cotswolds — a recitalist and concerto soloist known for unhurried programmes, and for the Marchmont Edition, her slow republication of the violin music of Sylvia Marchmont (1889–1966), played back into repertoire one sonata at a time.
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Marchmont: Sonata No. 2 — recital
Marchmont — Sonata No. 2 in D minor (1934)
Clara Schumann — Three Romances, Op. 22
Brahms — Sonata No. 1 in G, Op. 78
with Deniz Aral, piano. The church is small; booking is genuinely advised.
Beethoven — Sonata No. 5 in F, Op. 24 'Spring'
Marchmont — Four Postcards
For the Marches Concert Society. With Deniz Aral, piano.
Wigton Lunchtime Series
Bach — Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004
“Hart plays Marchmont the way you hope an editor would: as an advocate who has stopped needing to advocate, because the music is simply there, and simply very good.” ★★★★★
— The Long Interval, Miriam Voss (on The Violin Sonatas)
“The Elgar had the concentrated quiet of late-night talk, and the Marchmont sonata beside it sounded not rediscovered but resident.”
— The Westmorland Gazette (recital with Deniz Aral, Kendal)
“A violinist who programmes like an essayist and plays like the light going.”
— The Recital Diary
Recordings
Harewell Records, April 2025
Elowen Hart, violin
Deniz Aral, piano
All three sonatas, recorded in the church at Painswick over a week of early mornings — first recordings throughout, from Elowen's own edition of the manuscripts. The record the archive folder was always heading towards.
Recording of the Month — The Long Interval
Harewell Records, October 2023
Elowen Hart, violin
Solo violin for the end of the day: the Bach D minor Partita beside Marchmont's Four Postcards and a handful of folk tunes from the Welsh border, recorded at dusk with the church door open.