Release Date: 27 May 2016
Label: Prima Facie
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 654469439200
Genres: Classical
Description
Manchester-born Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) was a novelist, poet, playwright, composer, linguist, translator and critic.
Best known for his novel A Clockwork Orange, he was also a prolific composer and musician, writing three symphonies and more than 150 other musical works.
'The Piano Music of Anthony Burgess' album comprises a suite of previously unheard and unrecorded contemporary classical work for solo piano, and has been recorded on Burgess's own grand piano, at the International Burgess Foundation by award-winning pianist Richard Casey.
Andrew Biswell, Director of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation and Professor of Modern Literature at MMU, said: "Anthony Burgess is celebrated internationally as one of the most important novelists of the twentieth century, yet many people are unaware of his parallel career as a composer and musician.
Throughout his life, Burgess composed hundreds of musical works, including symphonies, chamber music and a Broadway musical.
This collection of pieces for solo piano has never been heard in public or recorded before.
The new album celebrates the extraordinary musical achievement of Anthony Burgess.
I am delighted that Richard Casey will be launching the album with a concert on Burgess's own piano, in thecity of his birth, and in the Foundation building which bears his name."
Personnel: Richard Casey (piano)
Tracklisting
1. Prelude
2. Six Short Pieces
3. A Scottish Rhapsody For Andrew
4. Ye Banks And Braes
5. Master Coates Pieces
6. Untitled
7. Berceuse
8. Wiegenfeld
9. Brief Suite
10. Brief Suite
11. Nine Miniatures
12. Fuga A Voci
13. Friends
14. Tango
Xuefei Yang, Johannes Moser, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Or
Kenneth Hamilton
The Choir of Robinson College, Cambridge & Will Sims
Kenneth Hamilton
Michael Cretu
Laura Serra
Helen Cawthorne
David Daly, Duncan Honeybourne, Ondrej Vrabec, Daniel Wiesner, Graham Walker, David Trippett
Simon Passmore, Jane Ford, Kay Stephen, The Goldberg Ensemble, The Bingham Quartet & Richard Casey
Anthony Gilbert, Seo Jin Lee, Simon Turner, Richard Casey, Lesley Jane Rogers & Bingham Quartet,
Francesca Saracino, Richard Casey, Duncan Honeybourne, Angharad Morgan, Lauren Scott, Timothy Dickinson
Richard Casey
Richard Casey
Richard Casey
