Twentieth Century British Piano Sonatas

This compendium of British Piano Sonatas has been dictated by quality and variety. There are obvious omissions, largely of composers who wrote fine music for the piano, but maybe not in the form or structure suggested by the loaded word ‘sonata’. All the works presented here show their composers’ thinking over a bigger scale than their smaller pieces might allow, so that the listener is able to indulge in the creator’s sound world and control of musical form over longer periods. Here are a dozen such works each totally representative of their composers. We can delight in the stylistic and sonic contrasts as well as revelling in their varieties of keyboard writing. PETER JACOBS

Disc 1
1: Allegro Deciso - Scherzo and Finale
2: Theme and Variation I
3: Variation II. Molto Adagio
4: Variation III. Allegretto Con Grazia
5: Variation IV. Adagio Maestoso
6: Scherzo Variation V. Presto
7: Variation VI. Tempo Di Mazurka
8: Variation VII. Prestissimo
9: Andante - Adagio
10: Finale: Molto Allegro - Lento
11: I. Lento Tenebroso
12: II. Moderato Eroico
13: III. Allegro Moderato
14: IV. Lento
15: V. Trionfale
16: VI. Molto Largamente
17: VII. Lento

Disc 2
1: I. Lento Ma Non Troppo - Andante Ben Moderato - Allergro Energico
2: II. Andante Ben Moderato
3: III. Lento - Allegro Ma Non Troppo
4: I. Allegro Moderato
5: II. Non Troppo Lento
6: III. Con Moto Moderato
7: I. Allegro - Presto - Lontano E Capriccioso
8: II. Lento E Lugubre
9: III. Lugubre - Presto

Disc 3
1: I. Allegro
2: II. Andante Tranquillo
3: III. Presto
4: IV. Rondo: Giocoso Con Moto
5: I. Moderato
6: II. Presto
7: III. Adagio
8: IV. Allegro
9: I. Moderato Marcato
10: II. Adagio Sereno
11: III. Allegro

Disc 4
1: Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 24
2: I. Andante Tranquillo - Allegro
3: II. Più Mosso Quasi Allegretto
4: III. Vivace
5: I. Allegretto
6: II. Andante
7: III. Scherzo
8: IV. Allegro Molto
9: I. Adagio - Allegro Potente
10: II. Variations

Composer: Benjamin Dale, Lennox Berkeley, Constant Lambert, Arnold Bax, Franz Reizenstein, Harold Truscott, John Joubert, Arthur Bliss, John Ireland, Thomas Wilson, Frank Bridge, Michael Tippett

Number of Discs: 4

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