Long Journey Back - Lames Clapperton, piano

ID: MSVCD92033 (EAN: 5019148632924)  | 1 CD | DDD
Released in: 2002

LABEL:

METIER

Collection:

Instrumental

Composers:

CLAPPERTON, James

Interprets:

CLAPPERTON, James (piano)

Other info:

James Clapperton is a highly regarded pianist and composer, born in Scotland. Highly influenced at first by Ferneyhough, Finnissy and Xenakis his music has developed in a softer, more approachable and individual style which is at once "modern" and "romantic" in that it paints musical pictures and epicts programmes of personal and historic subjects. Ideal for those wanting to delve into modern repertoire without the extremes of modernism.

tracks:
(all by James Clapperton):
Long Journey Back
The Ressoning betuire Aige an Yowth
Steven's Piano Book
Mikhashoffschina
Hear
Michael's Piano Book
The Testament of Cresseid
Two North East Songs

“Clapperton (b. 1968) is a left-leaning Scottish pianist-composer much preoccupied with Scottish themes, though cosmopolitan in his technical outlook - an heir to Ronald Stevenson, perhaps. The title of this survey of his work, and of the first item, indicates a return from the avant-gardism that exercised him as a young composer and virtuoso exponent of Ferneyhough and Xenakis to a softer idiom made of decorative, trill-like figures, and suggests a rapturous contemplation of a lost folk paradise. The approach serves equally for pieces such as The Testament of Cresseid or The Resoning betuir Aige and Yowth and miniatures dedicated to friends.”
The Sunday Times