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ID: DCD34079
Disk: 1
Type: CD
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Podkolekce: Klavír
An influential figure both personally and musically, Thomas Wilson was the leading light in a group of composers whose vision and technical assurance brought an international modernism into 20th-century Scottish music. In the chamber works collected here, moments of extraordinary stillness continually release into fast, propulsive music whose compelling energies are matched by the individual and collective virtuosity of Simon Smith, Allan Neave and the Edinburgh Quartet.
Track listing
Thomas Wilson
1 Cancion (1977) for guitar Listen
2-3 Piano Sonata (1964)
4 Piano Trio (1966)* Listen
5-7 Three Pieces (1961) for guitar
8 -10 String Quartet No 3 (1958)* Listen
11 Incunabula (1983)
Total playing time [77:56]
*premiere recordings |
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ID: DCD34051
Disk: 1
Type: CD
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Kolekce: InstrumentalPodkolekce: Klavír
Best known for a series of works for solo instruments and orchestra - including a highly successful concerto for his own instrument, the cello - Hafliði Hallgrímsson is also a master of the epigrammatic miniature. The piano music on this disc spans his career from 1963 to 2008, and the brilliant young pianist Simon Smith is a vital advocate of its varied colours, textures and resonances.
Track listing
1 - 3. Fley
4 - 10. Sketches in Time
11 - 15. Bagatelles
16 - 20. Five Pieces
21 - 30. Ten Pieces
31 - 34. Four Icelandic Folksongs
35 - 40. Homage to Mondrian
Total playing time [78:14] |
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ID: DCD34009
Disk: 1
Type: CD
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Kolekce: InstrumentalPodkolekce: Klavír
*world premiere recordings
Simon Smith’s astounding debut recording features a kaleidoscope of piano works by Scottish composers James MacMillan and Stuart MacRae. Smith’s fluency in these contemporary pieces is exuberant and definitive, from subtle murmur to virtuosic flourish.
"Simon Smith is a phenomenal pianist... A strong, meaty recital, played with complete authority by a remarkable young musician" - The Herald
"I'm impressed with the way Simon Smith plays this piece - he brings an extraordinary energy to the first movement and a good deal of sensitivity and shape to the second, and I'm very glad his interpretation has been recorded here." - Stuart MacRae
Track listing
James MacMillan
1. In angustiis...I
2. Birthday Present
3. Barncleupédie
4. Lumen Christi
Piano Sonata
5. I. Adagio
6. II. Grandioso ed affretando
7. III. Adagio
8. For Ian
9. A Cecilian Variation for JFK
10. Angel
Stuart MacRae
Piano Sonata
11. I. Variation
12. II. Erosion/Glacial
This recording was made possible with the assistance of the Scottlsh Arts Council. |
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ID: DCD34131
Disk: 2
Type: CD
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Podkolekce: Klavír
Track listing
Disc One
1-4. Piano Sonata No 1
5-7. Piano Sonata No 2
8-11. Piano Sonata No 3
12. Variations
Disc Two
1. Prelude and Fugue
2. Improvisation and Fugue
3. Variations on a Chord
4-11. Little Piano Pieces
12. Homage to Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitri Shostakovich*†
13-17. Five Aphorisms
18. Sonatina for piano (four hands)*
19-24. Cadenzas to Mozart's Piano Concertos K39, K467, K491 and K503
Total playing time [2:26:29]
[with *Richard Beauchamp and †John Cameron additional pianists]
In 2002 Simon Smith made his recording debut on Delphian in a disc of James MacMillan’s complete piano music, paired with Stuart MacRae’s Piano Sonata. Recordings of music by Hafliði Hallgrímsson and Thomas Wilson have followed. In this new, substantial outing Smith turns from music-making in Scotland to another of his lifelong loves, the music of Alfred Schnittke.
This two-disc set comprises Schnittke’s entire published output for solo piano (including one piece for piano duet and another for six hands at one keyboard). The Russian composer’s music often makes gargantuan demands of the player. Smith’s technical prowess, astonishing dynamic palette and heartfelt musicality make him its ideal exponent. |
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