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
Kenneth Hamilton
Michael Cretu
Laura Serra
The Choir of Robinson College, Cambridge & Will Sims
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
