Anthony Goldstone - Britten Resonances (1991)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 72:00 | 223 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Divine Art | Catalog: 24118
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 72:00 | 223 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Divine Art | Catalog: 24118
Anthony Goldstone assembles a piano program centered on Benjamin Britten. Beyond putting Britten's music in the middle of the recital, he also intelligently relates the rest of the works to Britten in some way. Goldstone begins with works of two of Britten's teachers, Frank Bridge and John Ireland, then follows a few short Britten pieces with a set of preludes by his friend and contemporary Lennox Berkeley, and works from the 1970s by Ronald Stevenson and Colin Matthews, who were inspired by Britten. It's a program that ranges from the freely passionate, rhapsodic Dramatic Fantasia of Bridge to the atonality and minimalism of Matthews. Each work or set of pieces takes full advantage of all the capabilities of the piano, whether it be lyrical melodies or percussive animation, crashing bass chords or delicate sparks at the top of the keyboard.