EARLY KEYBOARD MUSIC
REVIEWS OF RECENTLY-PUBLISHED EARLY KEYBOARD MUSIC
EARLY KEYBOARD MUSIC, by composer: suitability for PIANO
Austrian...
Czech...
German...
Italian ...
Spanish & Iberian
BRITISH PIANO COMPOSERS
WILLIAM BAINES ....
BENJAMIN BURROWS....
FRANK BURY....
THOMAS JOHNSON....
HERBERT OPPENHEIMER....
MERVYN ROBERTS ....
This site contains
information about the composers Ray Clarke (based
in Castle Douglas), Nigel Deacon (from the Midlands), and Andrew
Lowe-Watson (from Norfolk).
Ray Clarke is a teacher, orchestrator and composer with a special
interest in folktune.
Nigel Deacon plays early keyboard music on the PIANO and has released about a dozen CDs. A few tracks are clickable below.
PIANO RECITALS
CD 1 ......Albero, Albrechtsberger,Draghi, Espona, Freixanet, Kozeluch, Nebra, Suchon
CD 2 ......Folktune Preludes, Ben Burrows, Georg Benda sonatas
CD 3 ......Georg Benda, William Boyce, Wagenseil, Folktune Preludes
CD 4 ......Christophe Wagenseil, Folktune Preludes, Jose Lidon
CD 5 ......Scarlatti, Wagenseil, Rodrigues, Galles, Czerny variations
CD 6 ......Nichelmann, Pasquini, Ben Burrows, Geminiani, Kindermann, Pescetti, Kammell
CD 7 ......Belgian harpsichodists: mainly Loeillet, also Fiocco, Benda, Schultheiss, F.Derry
CD 8 ......Techelmann, Turini, Gottlieb Muffat, Johann Mattheson, Pinto, Pleyel, Monn,
T.A.Johnson
CD 9 ......Kuhlau, Martinez, T.A.Johnson,J.C.Smith, J.C.F.Bach,Lederer, Pasquini,Camidge, Techelmann,Grainger, Villeblanche
CD 10 ......Krieger, J.W.Hertel, Gottlieb Muffat, Thomas Arne, John Robinson, Domenico Zipoli, Paradies, Techelmann,William Walond.
CD 11 ......The Couperins, Bernardo Storace, Matthew Camidge, Christopher Hales, Ben Burrows
CD 12 ......Greyfriars Suite by T.A.Johnson, Gottlieb Muffat, Herbert Oppenheimer, Roseingrave,, Sebastian Albero
folktune CD Folktune preludes for piano
Nigel also
does digital audio cleanup: mainly speech recordings but sometimes music. Past work includes sound recovery from surveillance tapes and mobile phones (e.g. for court cases and tribunals); removing background noise from old tape recordings so they can be broadcast ; improving the quality of video and television soundtracks; cleaning up recordings for archiving, rebalancing bass/middle/treble, transferring cassette recordings onto CD, etc......
SOME TRACKS FROM THE CDs
BAROQUE
Georg Benda, Sonata 8, 1st mvt. (Czech)
Christophe Wagenseil, Sonata op 2 no 3, 1st mvt. (Austrian)
Christophe Wagenseil, Sonata op 2 no 4, 1st mvt. (Austrian)
Domenico Scarlatti, Sonata L263 (Spanish#)
Bernardo Storace: Chaconne in C (Italian)
20th CENTURY
Emil Suchon: Grief
T.A.Johnson: Concert Waltz (unpublished)
Herbert Oppenheimer: Scherzo no. 1 (unpublished)
Herbert Oppenheimer: Valse no. 1 (unpublished)
T.A. JOHNSON: GREYFRIARS SUITE ...commentary
1.Greyfriars
2.Quelchy (with ashplant)
3.Bob Cherry
4.W.G.Bunter
5.Alonzo Todd, Poet and Dreamer
6.Harry Wharton and the Famous Five
ND ORIGINAL MUSIC
The Cumberland's Crew: Folktune Prelude
The Three Ravens: Folktune arr.
ND ARRANGEMENTS FOR PIANO
William Boyce: Organ Sonata, Bb, 1st movement (English)
Wieniawski: Romance, from violin concerto (Polish)
William Walond: Organ voluntary in G (English)
Claude Doucet: Chopinata paraphrase on tunes from Chopin
# Scarlatti was Italian but spent most of his creative life in Spain.
Andrew Lowe-Watson is a well-known composer and pianist who has written large-
scale works including "Trafalgar", performed by the
Moscow International Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Konstantin
Krimetz.
Composer pages: ......RAY CLARKE......
NIGEL DEACON......
ANDREW LOWE-WATSON
mp3s:
Nigel Deacon: May Song
The Lowlands of Holland
Cosby Fugue
G minor prelude
Ray Clarke: May Song (orch)
What shall we do with a drunken sailor? (orch)
MUSICAL ARTICLES
PIANO DUETS: What is a piano duet?....Piano duets: their use and abuse
HAYDN/DVORAK: new arrangements by Robin Holloway; different to the ones in Peters / Augener collections.
www.fourhandsplus.com
EARLY MUSIC
Making piano recordings of Scarlatti....Ornaments in early music
LATER MUSIC
20th century British music....19th century piano music
Printed scores of Nigel's piano music are produced by
Sutton Elms Publications; email
address
diversity@suttonelms.org.uk
List of pieces:......pdf
.....html
Inquiries about Andrew Lowe-Watson's music (fees, licensing, royalties, etc) - please contact BRENDAN DAVIS, FILM RIGHTS LTD, 80-82 REGENT ST, LONDON W1B 5A, TEL: +44 (0)20 7734 9911
