John McCabe: Farewell Recital

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John McCabe: Farewell Recital

Presteigne Festival, August 2010

Catalogue Number: TOCC0139
EAN: 5060113441393
Release Date: 19 September 2011
Duration: 71:09

Schubert: Piano Sonata in A minor, D784
Howard: Sky and Water
Casken: The Haunting Bough
Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales
McCabe: Tenebrae
Bridge: ‘Heart’s Ease’

John McCabe, piano

On 29 August 2010, at the Presteigne Festival on the Welsh borders, John McCabe gave his last public piano recital, bringing to an end a career as solo pianist that had lasted half a century. McCabe – born in Liverpool in 1939 and a composer-pianist in the tradition of Beethoven and Rachmaninov – has always championed the music of his contemporaries alongside his own and that of the masters of the past, and this farewell recital included two works by friends and colleagues and his own grandiose Tenebrae.

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Track Listing, MP3 Downloads and Streaming Samples

Track No.	Track Title / Details	Duration

	DOWNLOAD COMPLETE ALBUM	71:09

1-3	Piano Sonata in A minor, D784 (1823) Franz Schubert, composer John McCabe, piano	24:19
1	I. Allegro giusto	14:30
2	II. Andante	4:28
3	III. Allegro vivace	5:21

4	Sky and Water (2005) Emily Howard, composer John McCabe, piano (first recording)	6:30

5	The Haunting Bough (1999) John Casken, composer John McCabe, piano (first recording)	4:51

6-13	Valses nobles et sentimentales (pub. 1911) Maurice Ravel, composer John McCabe, piano	14:10
6	Modéré –	1:25
7	Assez lent –	1:53
8	Modéré –	1:27
9	Assez animé –	1:15
10	Presque lent –	1:05
11	Vif –	0:48
12	Moins vif –	2:42
13	Epilogue (Lent)	3:35

14	Tenebrae (1992-93) John McCabe, composer, piano (first recording by the composer)	19:27
14	Andante tranquillo – Lento	19:27

15	‘Heart’s Ease’ (Three Lyrics, No. 1) (1921) Frank Bridge, composer John McCabe, piano	1:52

Artists

Frank Bridge, composer

John Casken, composer

Emily Howard, composer
[credit: Matthew Seed]

Maurice Ravel, composer

1875 oil painting by Wilhelm August Rieder, after his own 1825 watercolor portrait

Franz Schubert, composer
[credit: Wilhelm August Rieder]

John McCabe, composer, piano
[credit: Peter Thompson]

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