Release Date: 01 May 2020
Label: Toccata Classics - Cd / Toccata Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5060113445490
Genres: Classical Solo Instrumental
Composer/Series: Vincent Persichetti
Description
The larger part of the organ music of the American composer Vincent Persichetti (1915–87) was composed towards the end of his life, with some of those pieces receiving their first recordings here. Several are based on hymn tunes, which can often be heard in the background – re-emerging in glorious affirmation in the Auden Variations. On occasion the language suggests a kaleidoscopic admixture of Hindemith and Messiaen, bristling with edgy flashes of colour; and Do not go gentle, an essay for pedals alone after the Dylan Thomas poem, is a statement of austere power. What these highly contrasted works have in common is complete textural clarity: Persichetti had been playing the organ since boyhood, and his writing for the instrument is that of a master.
Basil C. Vendryes; William David
Viktor Valkov
Petri Komulainen; Jan Lehtola
Zemtsov/Bulgarian Nrso
Williams/Daniell/Lepper
Watkins/Rsno/Andrews
Warren Mailley-Smith
Wareen Mailley-Smith
Tom Winpenny
Tom Winpenny
Tom Winpenny
Tom Winpenny
Tom Winpenny
Tom Winpenny
Tom Winpenny
