George Perle: Piano Works

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Release Date: 20th Oct 2007
Catalogue No: NW80342
Label: New World
Length: 44 minutes

Perle: Pantomime, Interlude and Fugue

Work length6:24

$3.00

$4.20

Michael Boriskin

I. Pantomime

Track length1:16

$1.00

$1.40

II. Interlude

Track length3:12

$1.00

$1.40

III. Fugue

Track length1:56

$1.00

$1.40

Perle: Fantasy-Variations

Work length7:04

$1.50

$2.10

Michael Boriskin

Perle: Six New Etudes

Work length10:46

$6.00

$8.40

Michael Boriskin

I. Praeludium

Track length0:39

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$1.40

II. Gigue

Track length2:27

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$1.40

III. Papillons

Track length1:04

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$1.40

IV. Romance

Track length2:30

$1.00

$1.40

V. Variations

Track length2:20

$1.00

$1.40

VI. Perpetuum mobile

Track length1:46

$1.00

$1.40

Perle: Suite in C

Work length12:25

$5.00

$7.00

Michael Boriskin

I. Introduction

Track length0:31

$1.00

$1.40

II. Cycles

Track length4:46

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$1.40

III. Chinese Puzzle

Track length3:27

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$1.40

IV. Improvisation

Track length1:20

$1.00

$1.40

V. Toccata

Track length2:21

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$1.40

Perle: Short Sonata (first part)

Work length3:02

$1.00

$1.40

Michael Boriskin

Perle: Short Sonata (second part)

Work length2:25

$1.00

$1.40

Michael Boriskin

Perle: Short Sonata (third part)

Work length2:35

$1.00

$1.40

Michael Boriskin

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George Perle's affection for the piano began in childhood, when he first heard the instrument: he speaks with precise recall of the very moment when he became entranced at age of six listening to the first of the Trois nouvelles etudes of Chopin. While he has created a rich and important list of works in nearly every medium except opera over the past half-century, he has composed more for the piano (in both its solo and chamber roles) than for any other instrument. His keyboard canon now includes a dozen etudes in two collections, one set of preludes, a suite, two brief sonatas and a sonatina, a variety of individual pieces, and two large chamber works which prominently feature the piano (the Concertino and Serenade No. 3). In 1986, Perle received the Pulitzer Prize in music and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship— honors confirming his belated emergence as one of today's most distinguished composers.

This disc features one of Perle's earliest surviving compositions Pantomime, Interlude and Fugue (1937). Also included are his 1971 Fantasy-Variations, which combine an improvisational (but precisely notated) musical rhetoric with a more tightly structured variation format; Six New Etudes (1984), a companion set to Perle's immensely successful Six Etudes of 1976 (recorded by Bradford Gowen on NW 304); Suite in C (1970), and the fiendishly difficult Short Sonata (1964).

George Perle: Piano Works

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