Colour and Light: 20th-Century British Piano Music
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Label: Somm
Cat No: SOMMCD0196
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 29th March 2019
Contents
Works
Preludes (12)Margot la Rouge
Paraphrase II
Litany
Toccata
The Ring of Bone, op.106
Artists
Nathan Williamson (piano)Works
Preludes (12)Margot la Rouge
Paraphrase II
Litany
Toccata
The Ring of Bone, op.106
Artists
Nathan Williamson (piano)About
A century-spanning programme from Delius’s quixotic 1887 Nocturne (more familiar as ‘An Nacht’, the Florida Suite’s finale, here in Robert Threlfall’s 1986 transcription) to Anthony Herschel Hill’s combustible Toccata of 1985 also lights on three other distinctive but highly contrasted composers.
Modernity makes itself felt in Elisabeth Lutyens’s The Ring of Bone (1975) which strikingly employs the use of spoken text in what Williamson describes in his booklet notes as “a bold and heartfelt gesture”. William Alwyn’s Twelve Preludes (1958) pay a glancing nod to Lutyens’s serialist techniques even while displaying “a peculiarly English combination of both tonality and modality” characteristically his own.
Peter Dickinson’s “postmodern, poly-stylistic” Paraphrase II (1967) is the work of a composer open to the broadest influences, its seven sections inventively re-working an earlier three-part motet and receiving here their first studio recordings.
Slowly emerging into the light (his Nocturne featured on Julian Jacobson and Mariko Brown’s 2017 release – SOMMCD 0178) Anthony Herschel Hill’s Litany (1992) and Toccata (1985) – heard here in first recordings – are the product of a wholly individual compositional voice, boasting, says Williamson, “some of the most gorgeously idiomatic and exhilarating piano writing of any late-20th-century composer”.
Delius’s Prelude and Duet from his one-act opera Margot la Rouge, composed in 1902 yet unperformed until 1983, are distinctive for their delicate harmonic textures and colours, masterfully transcribed for piano by Maurice Ravel.
Featuring music by Bernstein, Copland, Charles Ives and Lou Harrison, Great American Sonatas, Nathan Williamson’s 2017 SOMM Recordings (SOMMCD0163) debut was hailed by Gramophone as “a release of distinction”.
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