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Christopher Guild - Johnson: 12 Preludes & Fugues (2024)

Posted By: ciklon5
Date: 18 Apr 2024 13:46:45
Christopher Guild - Johnson: 12 Preludes & Fugues (2024)

Christopher Guild - Johnson: 12 Preludes & Fugues (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless +Booklet| 1:04:19 | 231 Mb
Genre: Classical

Dr David Charles Johnson (27 October 1942 in Edinburgh – 30 March 2009 in Edinburgh) was a Scottish composer and a scholar of 18th-century Scottish music. Johnson was “an internationally recognised scholar” whose work significantly contributed to rediscovering and redefining 18th-century Scottish music within its historical context. His research focused on the music and social life of lowland Scotland during the 18th century, exploring influences, tastes, and key musical figures of the era.
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Christopher Guild - Moonie: Instrumental & Chamber Music, Vol. 1 – Music for Solo Piano (2021)

Posted By: delpotro
Date: 12 Nov 2021 20:03:43
Christopher Guild - Moonie: Instrumental & Chamber Music, Vol. 1 – Music for Solo Piano (2021)

Christopher Guild - Moonie: Instrumental & Chamber Music, Vol. 1 – Music for Solo Piano (2021)
MP3 CBR 320 kbps | Digital booklet | 01:22:59 | 191 Mb
Classical | Label: Toccata Classics

The music of the Edinburgh composer William Beaton Moonie (1883–1961) is as good as unknown. This firstever album devoted to his piano music reveals a figure downstream from Schumann, Brahms and Grieg, writing in a conservative Romantic idiom coloured by echoes of the folk-music of his native Scotland. Many of these pieces, indeed, are concerned to evoke images of the Scottish countryside or suggest aspects of Scottish history.
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Christopher Guild - Stevenson: Piano Music, Vol. 5 (2021)

Posted By: varrock
Date: 7 May 2021 08:36:35
Christopher Guild - Stevenson: Piano Music, Vol. 5 (2021)

Christopher Guild - Stevenson: Piano Music, Vol. 5 (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks+booklet) - 227 MB | Tracks: 25 | 80:44
Style: Classical | Label: Toccata Classics

The personal generosity that made the Scottish composer Ronald Stevenson (1928–2015) such a warm and vibrant character extended also to his writing-desk: around a quarter of his enormous output is given over to transcriptions, mostly for piano, of music by other composers. Here he pays homage to three earlier colleagues whose music he particularly esteemed: Purcell, Delius and van Dieren. Stevenson described his version of Van Dieren’s String Quartet No. 5 (1931) as ‘transcribed as a piano sonata (which B. v. D. never composed)’ – and thus it became the piano sonata which Stevenson himself never composed. The album ends with Stevenson’s brief but achingly beautiful harmonisation of Purcell’s The Queen’s Dolour – as exquisite an example of the transcriber’s art as anyone could wish.
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Christopher Guild - Ronald Stevenson: Piano Music, Vol. 4 (2020)

Posted By: varrock
Date: 7 Feb 2020 06:16:02
Christopher Guild - Ronald Stevenson: Piano Music, Vol. 4 (2020)

Christopher Guild - Ronald Stevenson: Piano Music, Vol. 4 (2020)
WEB FLAC (tracks+booklet) - 192 MB | Tracks: 28 | 75:15 min
Style: Classical | Label: Toccata Classics

This fourth volume in Christopher Guild’s ongoing survey of the piano music of the pianist-composer Ronald Stevenson (1928–2015) – a major figure in the cultural life of twentieth-century Scotland – presents works inspired by the human voice, where Stevenson was concerned above all to make the piano sing, to allow it to express human feeling as naturally as possible. That concern can be heard both in his own pieces and his many transcriptions of music by other composers, which balance sophisticated craftsmanship and a refreshing emotional directness.
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