Paul Crossley

Piano

Born in Yorkshire, his piano teacher was Fanny Waterman in Leeds. While a student at Oxford University, he was discovered by Olivier Messiaen and his wife Yvonne Loriod, who heard him play and immediately invited him to come to Paris to study with them. In 1968 he won the Messiaen Competition in Royan, France. Crossley is particularly associated with the music of Messiaen and British composers such as Michael Tippett, Nicholas Maw and George Benjamin. Tippett wrote his third and fourth Piano sonatas specifically with Crossley in mind. His extensive discography includes the piano works of Tippett, Fauré, Debussy and Ravel and the Fauré Violin sonatas with Arthur Grumiaux.

Paul Crossley was artistic director of the London Sinfonietta from 1988 to 1994.

He presented a landmark television series on avant garde classical music entitled Sinfonietta for Channel 4.

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Takemitsu: Quotation of Dream

Paul Crossley & Peter Serkin

London Sinfonietta, Oliver Knussen

Gramophone Awards 1999

Best of Category - Contemporary

DG Gramophone Awards Collection - 4767114

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Fauré - Piano Music

Fauré:

Trois Romances sans paroles, Op. 17

Valse-caprice, Op. 30

Barcarolle No. 1 in A minor, Op. 26

Nocturne No. 6 in D flat major, Op. 63

Barcarolle No. 5 in F sharp minor Op. 66

Barcarolle No. 6 in E flat major Op. 70

Thème & Variations, Op. 73

Nocturne No. 8 in D flat major, Op. 84 No. 8

Nocturne No. 13 in B minor, Op. 119

Paul Crossley

Penguim 3 Star Award

Regis - RRC1187

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Ravel - Favourite Piano Music

Ravel:

Gaspard de la Nuit

Valses nobles et sentimentales

Jeux d'eau

Pavane pour une infante défunte

Sonatine

Paul Crossley (piano)

Penguin 3 star

Regis - RRC1179

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Janácek: Chamber & Orchestral Works

A 5 CD box to mark the 150th anniversary of Janácek's birth

Janacek:

On an Overgrown Path

Paul Crossley (piano)

String Quartet No. 1 'The Kreutzer Sonata'

Gabrieli String Quartet

Violin Sonata

Kenneth Sillito (violin) Paul Crossley (piano)

Dumka for violin and piano

Kenneth Sillito (violin) Paul Crossley (piano)

Mládí (Youth), for wind sextet

Capriccio for Piano (left hand) & Chamber ensemble

Concertino

Pohádka (Fairy Tale) for Cello and Piano

Presto for Cello & Piano

Sinfonietta

Taras Bulba

Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Charles Mackerras

Lachian Dances

London Philharmonic Orchestra, François Huybrechts

Suite for string orchestra, Op. 3

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Neville Marriner

Rikadla (Nonsense Nursery Rhymes)

Members of the London Sinfonietta London Sinfonietta Chorus

Glagolitic Mass

Eva Urbanová soprano; Marta Benackova mezzo-soprano; Vladimir Bogachov tenor; Richard Novák bass; Thomas Trotter organ

Slovak Philharmonic Choir Wiener Philharmoniker, Riccardo Chailly

String Quartet No. 2 'Intimate Letters'

Gabrieli String Quartet

Romance for violin and piano

Kenneth Sillito (violin) Paul Crossley (piano)

London Sinfonietta and Wiener Philharmoniker

Building a Library

Modern Choice - April 2005

Decca Collectors Edition - 4755232

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Debussy & Ravel: Complete Piano Music

Gordon Fergus-Thomson (piano), Paul Crossley (piano)

Both French Impressionist composers par excellence Debussy and Ravel have written a distinct oeuvre for the solo piano. They were both pianists and wrote extensively for their instrument. Debussy even more so than Ravel. Together the works of this duo comprise the best music written in France in the second half of the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries. Ravel being the more original of the two.

Brilliant Classics - 6126

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