Berkeley - Music for Solo Piano & Piano Duet | British Music Society BMS416CD

Berkeley - Music for Solo Piano & Piano Duet

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Label: British Music Society

Cat No: BMS416CD

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 8th February 2010

Contents

Works

Berkeley
Six Preludes Op.23

Berkeley
Sonata Op.20

Berkeley
Five Short Pieces Op.4

Berkeley
Sonatina for four hands Op.39

Berkeley
Theme and Variations for four hands Op.73

Berkeley
Palm Court Waltz for four hands Op.81 No.2

Artists

Raphael Terroni (piano)
Norman Beedie (piano)

Works

Berkeley
Six Preludes Op.23

Berkeley
Sonata Op.20

Berkeley
Five Short Pieces Op.4

Berkeley
Sonatina for four hands Op.39

Berkeley
Theme and Variations for four hands Op.73

Berkeley
Palm Court Waltz for four hands Op.81 No.2

Artists

Raphael Terroni (piano)
Norman Beedie (piano)

About

Piano was Sir Lennox Berkeley’s own instrument, for which he left a generous legacy of sensitively constructed works for soloists, chamber musicians and accompanists. Berkeley’s earliest works for keyboard were composed at school and later at Merton College, Oxford. He admired Chopin and Mozart from his earliest days, and heard the Beethoven sonatas on pianola rolls as a child. After college, Berkeley spent seven years in Paris, where he studied composition with Nadia Boulanger. She disciplined his natural ear for melody and harmony through a rigorous study of counterpoint.

“I have always especially loved my father’s piano music, because his approach is so pianistic and shows a deep love and understanding of the instruments. It also invariably mirrors his character in its charm and wit, and in its bittersweet nostalgia. One of my abiding images of my father is of him working his way through the Chopin piano music; this is reflected in the technical demands that he himself mischievously engineers. Another passion was Mozart, as I think one might deduce from the phrasing and melodic construction; while, harmonically, the influence of France - Debussy, Ravel and in particular Poulenc - has been absorbed into a highly individual personal language. For me, my father’s piano literature represents in microcosm his compositional talents at their very best.” - Michael Berkeley (1993)

Raphael Terroni studied the piano with John Vallier and Cyril Smith. He has given concerts both at home and abroad and has appeared at major festivals as a soloist, accompanist and chamber-music player. Raphael Terroni is a Steinway artist and in 2008/9 he was Warden of the Performers and Composers section of the Incorporated Society of Musicians.

A prize-winner at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, and winner of the BBC Scottish Young Musician Competition, Dundee-born Norman Beedie was awarded a Sir James Caird Travelling Scholarship to study in Italy with pianist Guido Agosti and pianist/conductor Carlo Zecchi. He subsequently studied in France with the legendary pedagogue of the twentieth century, Nadia Boulanger, and also with Irène Joachim. He has performed throughout the world in solo recitals and as concerto soloist, in chamber music and as accompanist.

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