Composer: Gerard Schurmann
Performer: Mikhail Korzhev, Alyssa Park
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0133
Release: 2012
Size: 268 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Duo
01. I. Intrada: Lento appassionato
02. II. Ditirambo: Allegro molto
03. III. Notturno: Adagio tranquillo ed espressivo
04. IV. Burlesca: Presto
05. V. Alba: Largo
Leotaurus
06. Theme: Tranquillo
07. Variation 1: Poco animato
08. Variation 2: Tempo come primo
09. Variation 3: Allegro molto
10. Variation 4: Presto
11. Variation 5: Andante cantabile
12. Variation 6: Moderato
13. Variation 7: Con moto
14. Variation 8: Vivace
15. Variation 9: Moderato
16. Variation 10: Allegro
Autumn Leaves
17. I. Andante con moto
18. II. Arietta
19. III. Allegro
20. IV. Moderato
Contrasts
21. I. Cumulonimbus: Maestoso
22. II. Summer Rain: Allegro capriccioso
23. III. Becalmed: Lento, calmo ed espressivo
24. IV. Undersun: Allegro maestoso – Presto
The Anglo-Dutch composer Gerard Schurmann, born in the East Indies in 1924 and based in the USA since 1981, first made his mark in Britain in the 1940s and ’50s, as a pianist and composer, particularly of chamber music and, later, of film scores.
His concert output is intense, passionate, tightly argued and charged with energy, but also infused with lyricism, as these four pieces demonstrate.