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Performances, by a roster of artists often associated with this composer, leave nothing to be desired in terms of finesse or commitment and have been persuasively recorded. — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2018

Release Date: 27th Jul 2018
Catalogue No: PFNSCD009
Label: Prima Facie
Length: 60 minutes

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Dickinson: Sonatina For Recorder And Piano

Work length6:09

Peter Lawson, John Turner

Track length2:16

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Track length1:39

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Track length2:14

Dickinson: Lullaby For Clarinet And Piano

Work length3:52

Peter Lawson, Stuart Eminson

Dickinson: Translations

Work length11:57

John Turner, Richard Tunnicliffe, Harvey Davies

Dickinson: Threnody for Cello and Piano

Work length6:53

Lydia Hillerudh, Joseph Havlat

Dickinson: Four Duos For Flute And Cello

Work length9:10

Rosanna Ter-Berg, Lydia Hillerudh

Track length2:33

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Track length1:33

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Track length2:44

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Track length2:20

Dickinson: Fantasy For Clarinet And Piano

Work length4:28

Stuart Eminson, Joseph Havlat

Dickinson: Sonatina For Solo Bassoon

Work length10:26

Rosie Burto

Track length2:44

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Track length3:01

III.

Track length4:41

Dickinson: Waltz For Elliott Schwartz For Piano

Work length1:06

Peter Dickinson

Dickinson: Freda's Blues For Piano

Work length2:53

Peter Dickinson

Lullaby for the Unicorns for Piano

Work length3:32

Peter Dickinson

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Translations: Early Chamber Music by Peter Dickinson (b. 1934) forms part of the Prima Facie Records NEW Series, which aims to encourage the younger generations to appreciate, promote and play contemporary music.

"A composer who has escaped the confines of the predictable without ever ceasing to communicate " -Arnold Whittall, Gramophone

This disc spans much of Dickinson's career, from his days as a university undergraduate (Sonatina for Recorder and Piano (1956) and Threnody for cello and piano (also 1956), the latter first recorded by Penelope Lynex and Alexander Wells) to recent works such as Waltz For Elliott Schwartz For Piano (2016), celebrating Schwartz's 80th birthday, and Freda's Blues For Piano (2016), a tribute to Lady Berkeley (1923-2016), based on Berkeley's song 'How Love Came In'.

It also includes works written some time ago but only recently performed, such as the Fantasy for Clarinet and Piano (1956), first performed in 2000. The inspiration for the works on this CD is characteristically diverse. For example, Lullaby for clarinet and piano (1967/82) is derived from Dickinson's sketches for an opera called The Unicorns, based on a story by John Heath-Stubbs (1918-2006), about two competing countries who wanted to secure unicorns for research.Four Duos for cello and flute (1962), the second movement of which was written in a room with a chiming clock, uses a twelve-note row from Charles Ives' Three Page Sonata (1908). The idea for the Sonatina for solo bassoon (1966) emerged whilst the Dickinsons were staying in Paris in a house in which a bassoonist was practising on the top floor. Translations for recorder, gamba and harpsichord (1971) was written for David Munrow, Oliver Brooks and Christopher Hogwood, and includes a range of extended techniques, as Munrow believed that early music instruments should be available to today's composers.

"As composer, performer and writer, Peter Dickinson has made a significant contribution to British musical life" - Philip Borg-Wheeler, Classical Music

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Awards Issue 2018

Performances, by a roster of artists often associated with this composer, leave nothing to be desired in terms of finesse or commitment and have been persuasively recorded.

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