Tippett - Complete Works for Piano
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Label: Hyperion
Cat No: CDA674612
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Release Date: 29th October 2007
Contents
Works
TippettPiano Concerto
Tippett
Fantasia on a theme of Handel
Tippett
Piano Sonata No 1
Tippett
Piano Sonata No 2
Tippett
Piano Sonata No 3
Tippett
Piano Sonata No 4
Artists
Steven Osborne (piano)BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Martyn BrabbinsWorks
TippettPiano Concerto
Tippett
Fantasia on a theme of Handel
Tippett
Piano Sonata No 1
Tippett
Piano Sonata No 2
Tippett
Piano Sonata No 3
Tippett
Piano Sonata No 4
Artists
Steven Osborne (piano)BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Martyn BrabbinsAbout
Every one of Tippett’s six piano works is substantial, if not in length then in compositional ambition. By temperament he conceived music on a large scale and was more attracted to the sonata than the short genre piece typical of the famous pianist-composers of the 19th and 20th centuries. Being only a moderate pianist himself, his piano writing speaks of an imagination directed not by virtuosity or routine movements of the fingers or the blandishments of the sustaining pedal but one set free to explore the contrapuntal style and fascination with rhythm it was heir to.
This is full-blooded, dramatic, joyful music.
Steven Osborne is a celebrated interpreter of Tippett’s piano music, making the works his own and dealing with their considerable technical difficulties with ease and aplomb. In a recent interview with International Piano magazine, he wrote ‘I can’t think of any late 20th-century music that is more gripping to perform’. He is joined by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Martyn Brabbins.
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