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Brian Chapple - Piano Duos and Solos

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Label: Divine Art

Cat No: DDA25056

Barcode: 0809730505621

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 28th January 2008

Works

Chapple, Brian

Bagatelles Diveres for solo piano
Burlesque, for two pianos
Piano Sonata
Pieces (4) from 'A Bit of a Blow' for piano duet
Requies for piano solo

Artists

Anthony Goldstone
Caroline Clemmow

Works

Chapple, Brian

Bagatelles Diveres for solo piano
Burlesque, for two pianos
Piano Sonata
Pieces (4) from 'A Bit of a Blow' for piano duet
Requies for piano solo

Artists

Anthony Goldstone
Caroline Clemmow

About

Brian Chapple was born in 1945. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music: composition with Lennox Berkeley and piano with Harry Isaacs. Early successes include Scherzos for four pianos (“a daring piece of musical collage… like an inspired improvisation”, wrote Felix Aprahamian in The Sunday Times), which was premièred at the 1976 Proms. The orchestral Green and Pleasant was winner of the BBC Monarchy 1000 Prize in 1972; its première in Bath, conducted by Norman del Mar, was broadcast and televised. In 1976 Elgar Howarth‘s performance with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra was chosen to represent the BBC in UNESCO’s International Rostrum of Composers in Paris.

One is struck by the widely varied styles and idioms of these five works. The earliest, the Piano Sonata of 1986, is the most challenging from the point of view of both the performer and the listener. The latest, Bagatelles Diverses (2005), is also pianistically demanding, but uses a more straightforward, tonal language. The element of freshness and surprise here is generated by the close juxtaposition of the strongly contrasted colours, textures and tempi of the nine fairly short movements.

Requies (1991) is perhaps the most striking, in its almost single-mindedly slow pace, simplicity of material and depth of feeling. The wittiest pieces and the lightest of touch are Burlesque (2000) for two pianos, four hands, and Four Pieces from “A Bit of a Blow” (2005) for piano duet.

With over thirty CDs and a busy concert schedule stretching back almost a quarter century, the British piano duo Goldstone and Clemmow is firmly established as a leading force. Described by Gramophone as ‘a dazzling husband and wife team’, by International Record Review as ‘a British institution in the best sense of the word’, and by The Herald, Glasgow as ‘the UK’s pre-eminent two-piano team’, internationally known artists Anthony Goldstone and Caroline Clemmow formed their duo in 1984 and married in 1989.

Their extremely diverse activities in two-piano and piano-duet recitals and double concertos, taking in major festivals, have sent them all over the British Isles as well as to Europe, the Middle East and several times to the USA, where they have received standing ovations and press accolades.

World Première Recordings of:
- Burlesque, for two pianos, four hands (2000 adapted 2005)
- Sonata for Piano Solo (1986)
- Bagatelles Diveres for solo piano (2005)
- Four Pieces from “A Bit of a Blow” for piano duet (2005)