Piano Music
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WILLIAM ALWYN
Piano Music
Mark Bebbington (piano)
[ Somm / CD ]
Release Date: Sunday 10 August 2014
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This new release represents another instalment in SOMM's British Music series - Piano Music by William Alwyn (1905 - 1985) with pianist Mark Bebbington whose contribution to this series, both as performer and researcher, has been second to none.
"[Bebbington] has a rewarding slant on the eleven waltzes, composed between 1954 and 1955...There's no other performance [of the Carwithen] with which to compare Bebbington's but there's every sign that he is wholly in command of the idiom, and I'd say that he sounds as if he loves ever bar of it." (MusicWeb)
"[Carwithen's Sonatina] sparkles with rhythmic energy in its outer movements but finds a beautiful stillness at its Debussyian core. Bebbington dispatches Alwyn's virtuosic, Grieg-inspired Fantasy Waltzes with real panache and romps through the rewarding neoclassicism of the Sonata alla Toccata. A revelatory disc." (The Observer)
Tracks:
Alwyn:
Fantasy-Waltzes
Funeral Rites for the Death of an Artist
Bicycle Ride
Piece for Piano
Sonata alla toccata
The Weather Vane
Carwithen:
Sonatina
