Bejamin Lees - Piano Works 1945-2005
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Label: Toccata Classics
Cat No: TOCC0069
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 28th April 2008
Contents
Works
LeesToccata
Lees
Three Preludes
Lees
Six Ornamental Etudes
Lees
Sonata Breve
Lees
Odyssey Nos 1–3
Artists
Mirian Conti (piano)Works
LeesToccata
Lees
Three Preludes
Lees
Six Ornamental Etudes
Lees
Sonata Breve
Lees
Odyssey Nos 1–3
Artists
Mirian Conti (piano)About
The works on this CD span almost sixty years of compositional activity but are unified by a number of consistent stylistic features: a wiry and muscular athleticism with its distant roots in Prokofiev and Bartók, a quasi-Impressionist awareness of piano sonority, a tough, non-nonsense sense of humour and an exhilarating onward drive. Pianist Mirian Conti says: “There is a personal and defining style to Lees’ music: it is driven, intense, solid and passionate”.
The composer himself provides commentary on the music here: “In France I met the pillars of the Surrealist movement: Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Magritte, Max Ernst, Tristan Tzara, Salvador Dalí et al. […] It opened new avenues of thought as regards my music. The elements of the bizarre, the unexpected, the disturbing, the transference of images, humour, the ridiculous, the provocative and sexual – all these I felt could be relevant in my own approach to composition”.
The 36-page booklet includes a profile of Benjamin Lees by Martin Anderson, the composer’s own commentary on the music, and an essay by the pianist, Mirian Conti.
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