Rory Boyle - Solo Piano Music - James Willshire, piano - Bartholdy Trio

ID: DCD34098 (EAN: 801918340987)  | 1 CD | DDD - 24 b
Released in: 2010

LABEL:

DELPHIAN RECORDS

Subcollection:

Piano

Composers:

BOYLE, Rory

Interprets:

WILLSHIRE, James (piano)

Ensembles:

Bartholdy Trio

Other info:

This year 2010 British Composer Award winner Rory Boyle celebrates his sixtieth birthday. Young virtuoso pianist James Willshire’s debut recording explores the full gamut of Boyle’s ompositional personality - from the cragginess of his finely wrought Sonata to the intensely human lyricism of Tatty’s Dancing (itself a sixtieth birthday present for Boyle's wife).


Track listing
All world premiere recordings made in the presence of the composer.

Arrivals and Departures
1 Pour Beatrice
2 Elegy on FS
3 Berceuse for Bertie
4 Flying
5 Reeling
Sonata
6 Toccatas, Dances, and Interludes
7 Recitatives and Dreams
8 Games
9 Capriccio on the Anniversary of a Beloved Master
Studies for the one in the middle
10 Rondo
11 Intermezzo
12 Toccata
13 Tatty’s Dance
14 Phaethon’s Dancing Lesson (Piano Trio No. 2)

Total playing time [67:58]

'Willshire shaped and characterised every momenth with freshness and lucidity'
- The Herald

'While Boyle's Scottish roots are never far away, his music has a strong, mainstream European, Stravinsky-based rigour, with its own brand of virile, challenging, but always comprehensible counterpoint, dissonance which is hard-fought yet never gratuitous, an unsentimental lyricism and unerring sense of architecture.'
- Nicholas Cleobury