Field - 18 Nocturnes
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Label: Piano Classics
Cat No: PCL10288
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 2nd February 2024
Contents
Artists
Tyler Hay (piano)About
Even when he settled upon Nocturne, Field bestowed upon some of them a qualifying subtitle: ‘Cradle Song’ (no.6), ‘Reverie’ (no.7), ‘Song Without Words’ (no.13), ‘Nocturne Pastorale’ (no.17), and ‘Nocturne charactéristique Midi’ (no.18). This last Nocturne stands apart from its companions as a tribute to midday, cast as an Allegro, with a coda in which a chiming clock strikes twelve as quicker notes laugh and dance around the repeated note.
As a window on the salons of 19th-century Europe, the Nocturnes are taxing neither to play nor to listen to, but they are polished with painstaking finesse, and they demand from the performer all the subtle pianistic guile of Chopin’s works: notably a command of rubato to shape the melodies, and the imaginative and technical capacities of a coloristic palette to bring variety without eccentricity to the sequence.
Tyler Hay can call upon such talents and skills as critics have recognised in his previous recordings for Piano Classics such as an album devoted to the music of John Ogdon (PCL10132).
‘Tyler Hay is a formidable pianist… I believe John Ogdon would be very pleased by these performances of his music’ – Fanfare
‘The young pianist Tyler Hay has brilliantly mastered and assimilated these often elusive scores, even to the point where I heretically prefer his interpretations to Ogdon’s’ – Gramophone
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