Barber: Piano Music

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Release Date: 11th Apr 2011
Catalogue No: 9489552
Label: Warner Classics
Series: American Classics
Length: 69 minutes

Barber: Nocturne, Op. 33

Work length4:09

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Leon McCawley (piano)
Recorded: 1995-12-19
Recording Venue: 17-19 December 1995 / St. George's Brandon Hill, Bristol

Barber: Excursions Op. 20

Work length14:01

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Leon McCawley (piano)
Recorded: 1995-12-19
Recording Venue: 17-19 December 1995 / St. George's Brandon Hill, Bristol

I. Un poco allegro

Track length3:26

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II. In slow blues tempo

Track length4:28

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III. Allegretto

Track length3:19

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IV. Allegro molto

Track length2:48

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Barber: Ballade Op 26

Work length7:11

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Leon McCawley (piano)
Recorded: 1995-12-19
Recording Venue: 17-19 December 1995 / St. George's Brandon Hill, Bristol

Barber: Souvenirs, Op. 28

Work length17:58

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Leon McCawley (piano)
Recorded: 1995-12-17
Recording Venue: 17 - 19 December 1995 / St. George's Brandon Hill, Bristol

I. Waltz

Track length3:57

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II. Schottische

Track length2:28

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III. Pas de deux

Track length3:42

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IV. Two Step

Track length1:44

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V. Hesitation-tango

Track length3:40

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VI. Galop

Track length2:27

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Barber: Interlude Op. posth

Work length5:49

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Leon McCawley (piano)
Recorded: 1995-12-19
Recording Venue: 17-19 December 1995 / St. George's Brandon Hill, Bristol

Barber: Piano Sonata, Op. 26

Work length20:37

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Leon McCawley (piano)
Recorded: 1995-12-19
Recording Venue: 17-19 December 1995 / St. George's Brandon Hill, Bristol

I. Allegro energico

Track length7:50

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II. Allegro vivace eleggero

Track length2:09

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III. Adagio mesto

Track length5:32

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IV. Fuga

Track length5:06

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This programme of piano works by one of America's foremost 20th century composers will make an ideal companion disc to the four others already in this series. Leon McCawley is a British pianist, born 1973, who studied at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, the same conservatory that Barber himself attended for lessons in piano, composition and voice. Excursions, Op.20, was written during the years 1942–44 and is the only work in which Barber adopted a style that might be termed 'American', with it's use of boogie-woogie, blues, a cowboy song and hoedown. The Op.26 Piano Sonata was written in 1949, when it's première was given by Vladimir Horowitz. It has since maintained a prominent position in the repertoire. The Souvenirs, Op.28 of 1952 exist not only in two piano versions but also as a ballet score. In these short and easily appealing pieces Barber adopts a style somewhere between Satie and Prokofiev but, in all essentials, remains true to himself. Although, after the 1966 failure of his third opera Antony and Cleopatra, Barber continued to compose, his music became far more reflective and concentrated. The Ballade, Op.46, from 1977, is a fine example of Barber's later music.

Barber: Piano Music

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