2010 British Composer Award winner Rory Boyle celebrates his 60th birthday in 2011. Young virtuoso pianist James Willshire’s debut recording explores the full gamut of Boyle’s compositional personality – from the cragginess of his finely wrought Sonata to the intensely human lyricism of Tatty’s Dancing (itself a 60th birthday present for Boyle's wife).

“Willshire shaped and characterised every moment with freshness and lucidity” - The Herald, September 2007

“While Boyle’s scottish roots are never far away, his music has a strong, mainstream European, Stravinsky-based rigour, with its own brand of virile, challenging, but always comprehensible counterpoint, dissonance which is hardfought yet never gratuitous, an unsentimental lyricism and unerring sense of architecture” - Nicholas Cleobury

World première recordings made in the presence of the composer.

Contents:
- Arrivals and Departures
- Pour Beatrice
- Elegy on FS
- Berceuse for Bertie
- Flying
- Reeling
- Sonata
- Toccatas, Dances and Interludes
- Recitatives and Dreams,
- Games
- Capriccio on the Anniversary of a Beloved Master
- Studies for the one in the middle
- Rondo
- Intermezzo
- Toccata
- Tatty’s Dance
- Phaethon’s Dancing Lesson (Piano Trio No.2)