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It's not so unusual to find recordings of music by John Field, the Irish composer who invented the nocturne, either with Field's nocturnes by themselves or paired with those of Chopin. Irish pianist David Quigley accomplishes the latter effectively on this Avie release, framing the program with pairs that suggest the influence of Field, whom Chopin met in the early 1830s. Field's Nocturne No. 5 deserves a bit better than it gets from the annotation here; of course it does not match Chopin in harmonic depth, but Field's way of thinking about texture in a new kind of work that was not precisely either genre composition nor character piece, was unique, and Chopin plainly studied it closely The really distinctive feature of Quigley's album is that most of it is not devoted to Field and Chopin at all. Instead, he offers a survey of the nocturne as it developed and persisted into the 20th century. A couple of Irish composers, perhaps following Field's example, are included, and there are some little-known pieces that catch the attention and are sympathetically performed. The "Notturno" of Ottorino Respighi, hardly known for piano music, sounds about like what you might expect from the composer of The Pines of Rome if his sound were reduced to keyboard dimensions. But the little-heard Notturno, Op. 6, No. 2, of Clara Schumann is positively haunting and yields nothing to Chopin or Robert Schumann in harmonic terms. Recommended for any lover of Romantic piano music.
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John FIELD, Composer - David Quigley, MainArtist
(C) 2018 David Quigley (P) 2018 David Quigley
Frederic Chopin, Composer - David Quigley, MainArtist
(C) 2018 David Quigley (P) 2018 David Quigley
Pyotr Illych Tchaikovsky, Composer - David Quigley, MainArtist
(C) 2018 David Quigley (P) 2018 David Quigley
Clara Schumann, Composer - David Quigley, MainArtist
(C) 2018 David Quigley (P) 2018 David Quigley
Franz Liszt, Composer - David Quigley, MainArtist
(C) 2018 David Quigley (P) 2018 David Quigley
Edvard Grieg, Composer - David Quigley, MainArtist
(C) 2018 David Quigley (P) 2018 David Quigley
Claude Debussy, Composer - David Quigley, MainArtist
(C) 2018 David Quigley (P) 2018 David Quigley
Ottorino Respighi, Composer - David Quigley, MainArtist
(C) 2018 David Quigley (P) 2018 David Quigley
Philip Martin, Composer - David Quigley, MainArtist
(C) 2018 David Quigley (P) 2018 David Quigley
Lowell Liebermann, Composer - David Quigley, MainArtist
(C) 2018 David Quigley (P) 2018 David Quigley
David Quigley, MainArtist - Philip Hammond, Composer
(C) 2018 David Quigley (P) 2018 David Quigley
Frederic Chopin, Composer - David Quigley, MainArtist
(C) 2018 David Quigley (P) 2018 David Quigley
John FIELD, Composer - David Quigley, MainArtist
(C) 2018 David Quigley (P) 2018 David Quigley
Albumbeschreibung
It's not so unusual to find recordings of music by John Field, the Irish composer who invented the nocturne, either with Field's nocturnes by themselves or paired with those of Chopin. Irish pianist David Quigley accomplishes the latter effectively on this Avie release, framing the program with pairs that suggest the influence of Field, whom Chopin met in the early 1830s. Field's Nocturne No. 5 deserves a bit better than it gets from the annotation here; of course it does not match Chopin in harmonic depth, but Field's way of thinking about texture in a new kind of work that was not precisely either genre composition nor character piece, was unique, and Chopin plainly studied it closely The really distinctive feature of Quigley's album is that most of it is not devoted to Field and Chopin at all. Instead, he offers a survey of the nocturne as it developed and persisted into the 20th century. A couple of Irish composers, perhaps following Field's example, are included, and there are some little-known pieces that catch the attention and are sympathetically performed. The "Notturno" of Ottorino Respighi, hardly known for piano music, sounds about like what you might expect from the composer of The Pines of Rome if his sound were reduced to keyboard dimensions. But the little-heard Notturno, Op. 6, No. 2, of Clara Schumann is positively haunting and yields nothing to Chopin or Robert Schumann in harmonic terms. Recommended for any lover of Romantic piano music.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 13 track(s)
- Total length: 01:09:26
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: David Quigley
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: AVIE Records
- Genre: Klassiek
(C) 2018 David Quigley (P) 2018 David Quigley
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