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Edward Gregson: Complete Music for Solo Piano
Label Catalogue Number:
8.574222
8.574222
Running Time: 01:11:09
Release Date: August 2020
Originally recorded in 2019
Originally recorded in 2019
Genre:
Classical
Piano
Classical
Piano
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Murray McLachlan says of Edward Gregson’s piano music that ‘he knows the importance of restraint and control; nothing is overly stated, repeated or extended. Concentration and craftsmanship permeate every bar that the composer has penned.’ Renowned for his orchestral oeuvre, Gregson shows us a more intimate but no less impressive side in his piano music. From the Lullaby composed while a student, to the Tippett-inspired Piano Sonata, we are charmed, moved and thrilled in equal measure by this programme of his complete music for solo piano. Edward Gregson is best known for his dazzling orchestral works and music for brass and wind bands, but this recording of his complete piano works to date reminds us of his equally impressive catalogue of works for soloists and chamber ensembles. Naxos has released his Tuba Concerto(8.557754) as well as the Three Matisse Impressions (8.572503) for recorder, strings, harp and percussion, considered ‘lovely and charming’ by MusicWeb International.
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Reviews
"... Highly recommended"
Myron Silberstein – Fanfare – March/April 2021
“… Edward Gregson’s piano music is varied and rewarding and I enjoyed exploring it with Murray McLachlan as my guide. His playing is superb throughout and he clearly identifies strongly with the music. Nor should one overlook the expert contributions of Rose McLachlan and the composer himself at various points in the programme. Engineer Ben Sharpe has captured the piano playing in a very pleasing, truthful recording. Edward Gregson himself produced the disc and I should imagine that, wearing his composer’s hat, he’s delighted with the results. Murray McLachlan’s notes provide an ideal introduction to the music.”
John Quinn – MusicWeb-International.com – 2 March 2021
“… A fine disc for all interested in modern British piano music.”
William Kreindler – MusicWeb-International.com – 18 November 2020
“… This is an extremely valuable CD which investigates a completely different facet of Edward Gregson’s music output over a number of years, and can be warmly welcomed on so many different levels. The composer’s music is fascinating and easy to live with – yes, even those two works which ‘come after the Watershed’. The performances from the composer, and Rose McLachlan respectively, are totally committed and so well delivered, but I doubt that there is anyone better qualified or equipped than Murray McLachlan to sound equally at home in the granite-like crags of the Piano Sonata, as in the gentle intimacy of any of the shortest miniatures on the disc. Even with this embarrassment of riches, and the first-rate piano sound, so faithfully captured by NAXOS, what I hear first and foremost are three good friends coming together to make music, and you can really sense the empathy and bonhomie between them, in every note played…”
Philip R Buttall – MusicWeb-International.com – 29 October 2020
"This is a very welcome and timely release coincidentally making the 75th birthday of Edward Gregson who also appears as solo pianist himself in the appealing miniature 'A Song for Sue' ... But it is the excellent Murray McLachlan ... who is the pianistic star of this well produced album of Gregson's complete piano music in which the most significant piece is the single movement Sonata of 1983. This is an impressive piece ..." *****
Robert Matthew-Walker - Musical Opinion Quarterly - October-December 2020
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