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Piano Nocturnes




 

 

 

Released: 2018
AV2388
Avie Records

David Quigley piano

 

 

David Quigley - Piano Nocturnes
       
     

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1 Nocturne No.5 in B flat major, H37 John Field  
2 Nocturne in E flat major, Op.55 No.2 Frédéric Chopin  
3 Nocturne, Op.19 No.4 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky  
4 Notturno, Op.6 No.2 Clara Schumann  
5 Les Cloches de Genève (Nocturne) Franz Liszt  
6 Nocturne, Op.54 No.4 Edvard Grieg  
7 Nocturne, L89 Claude Debussy  
8 Notturno Ottorino Respighi  
9 Oiche Ceoil (Night Music for the left hand) Philip Martin  
10 Nocturne No.2 Op.31 Lowell Liebermann  
11 Is Im Bo agus Eiriu (Nocturne) Philip Hammond  
12 Nocturne in D flat major, Op.27 No.2 Frédéric Chopin  
13 Nocturne No.10 in E minor, H54 John Field  
       
       
       

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Source: AllMusic

Reviewed by: James Manheim - 4/5

 

 

It's not so unusual to find recordings of music by John Field, the Irish composer who invented the nocturne, either with Field's nocturnes by themselves or paired with those of Chopin. Irish pianist David Quigley accomplishes the latter effectively on this Avie release, framing the program with pairs that suggest the influence of Field, whom Chopin met in the early 1830s. Field's Nocturne No. 5 deserves a bit better than it gets from the annotation here; of course it does not match Chopin in harmonic depth, but Field's way of thinking about texture in a new kind of work that was not precisely either genre composition nor character piece, was unique, and Chopin plainly studied it closely The really distinctive feature of Quigley's album is that most of it is not devoted to Field and Chopin at all. Instead, he offers a survey of the nocturne as it developed and persisted into the 20th century. A couple of Irish composers, perhaps following Field's example, are included, and there are some little-known pieces that catch the attention and are sympathetically performed. The "Notturno" of Ottorino Respighi, hardly known for piano music, sounds about like what you might expect from the composer of The Pines of Rome if his sound were reduced to keyboard dimensions. But the little-heard Notturno, Op. 6, No. 2, of Clara Schumann is positively haunting and yields nothing to Chopin or Robert Schumann in harmonic terms. Recommended for any lover of Romantic piano music.

 

 

"Stunning new CD of Nocturnes ... it sounds glorious"
Katie Derham, In Tune - BBC Radio 3

 

"He plays like a dream"
John Brunning, Drive - Classic FM

 

"A beautiful selection of Nocturnes"
Liz Nolan, The Full Score - RTÉ Lyric FM.

 
 
     

 

       
       
       
       
       
       

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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