Composer: Michael Brough
Performer: Michael Brough
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0490
Release: 2018
Size: 1.17 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
25 Picture-Preludes, Op. 19
01. No. 1 in B Minor
02. No. 2 in D Major
03. No. 3 in F Major
04. No. 4 in D Minor
05. No. 5 in F Minor
06. No. 6 in A-Flat Major
07. No. 7 in G Minor
08. No. 8 in B-Flat Major
09. No. 9 in G-Sharp Minor
10. No. 10 in B major
11. No. 11 in C Minor
12. No. 12 in E-Flat Major
13. No. 13
14. No. 14 in F-Sharp Major
15. No. 15 in E-Flat Minor
16. No. 16 in G Major
17. No. 17 in E Minor
18. No. 18 in A Major
19. No. 19 in F-Sharp Minor
20. No. 20 in C Major
21. No. 21 in A Minor
22. No. 22 in E Major
23. No. 23 in C-Sharp Minor
24. No. 24 in B-Flat Minor (for the left hand only)
25. No. 25 in D-Flat Major
The English composer Michael Brough (born in Yorkshire, in northern England, in 1960) is rather an unusual character: he is also a full-time solicitor. Late in 2013, with a commission from the Swaledale Festival, he sat down at his piano sat down at his piano and began to improvise the first of what would become 25 Picture-Preludes, in the major and minor keys. Like Rachmaninov’s Etudes-Tableaux and Medtner’s Skazki, these short pieces are intended to stimulate a response in the listener’s imagination. Rachmaninov and Medtner are audible influences on Brough’s bluesy, late-Romantic musical language. This recording was made on the ‘Bosendorfer 290′, a piano with an extended range in the bass.