Robert Simpson: Complete Solo Piano Music

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Catalogue No: CDA66827
Label: Hyperion
Length: 65 minutes

Simpson, R: Piano Sonata

Work length23:41

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Raymond Clarke (piano)

I. Allegro molto moderato

Track length7:07

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II. Molto adagio e tranquillo

Track length10:25

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III. Allegro vivace

Track length6:09

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Simpson, R: Variations and Finale on a theme of Haydn

Work length22:49

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Raymond Clarke (piano)

Part 1. Theme. Tempo di menuetto

Track length0:57

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II. Variations 1 – 4

Track length4:57

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III. Variations 5 – 8

Track length6:22

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IV. Variations 9 – 12

Track length3:05

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Part 5. Finale. Allegro moderato

Track length7:28

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Simpson, R: Michael Tippett, His Mystery

Work length1:39

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Raymond Clarke (piano)

Simpson, R: Variations and Finale on a theme by Beethoven

Work length17:07

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Raymond Clarke (piano)

Part 1. Theme. Allegretto quasi Andante

Track length0:31

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II. Variations 1 – 11

Track length4:17

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III. Variations 12 – 21

Track length2:26

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IV. Variations 22 – 23

Track length3:48

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Part 5. Finale. [No tempo marking]

Track length6:05

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Issued to celebrate the seventy-fifth birthday of Robert Simpson on 2 March 1996. This, the seventeenth issue in the Hyperion cycle of the works of the prolific composer Robert Simpson, features all of his works for solo piano. The programme opens with the Sonata from 1946. This is Simpson's first published work and already shows traces of that large-scale organization of tonality which so characterizes his output. The Variations on a theme of Haydn takes the palindromic theme from Haydn's Symphony No 47 (also found in his piano Sonata No 41 and Simpson's own ninth String Quartet) and is a fascinating exercise in the rhythmic structure of music as well in basic tonality. Written for a symposium celebrating the life and works of Tippett, Michael Tippett, his mystery was first performed in 1993 by the soloist on this recording, Raymond Clarke, for whom Variations on a theme of Beethoven was also written (Simpson having heard the pianist give an impressive performance of Beethoven's Opus 111). Here the theme is a little-known miniature inscribed by Beethoven in a visitors' book in 1825. Simpson's work is similarly a triumph of organization in miniature.

Robert Simpson: Complete Solo Piano Music

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