The Complete Piano Works of John McCabe

Even more than her actual playing, which is exciting enough, the project is being realised by a pianist and label with no particular connection to McCabe the man: the quality of his piano music... — International Piano, January 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 8th Sep 2017
Catalogue No: PFCD054
Label: Prima Facie
Length: 65 minutes

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McCabe, J: 3 Impromptus

Work length4:03

Jane Ford

Impromptu 1

Track length0:45

Impromptu 2

Track length2:14

Impromptu 3

Track length1:04

McCabe, J: 5 Bagatelles for Piano

Work length5:38

Jane Ford

I. Capriccio

Track length0:30

II. Aria

Track length1:20

III. Elegia

Track length1:40

IV. Toccata

Track length0:42

V. Notturno

Track length1:26

McCabe, J: Paraphrase On Mary Queen Of Scots

Work length10:00

Jane Ford

I. Prelude

Track length5:49

II. Fugue

Track length4:11

McCabe, J: Afternoons And Afterwards

Work length11:52

Jane Ford

I. Swans at Stratford

Track length2:05

II. On the Beach

Track length1:53

III. Champagne Waltz

Track length1:54

IV. Sports Car

Track length1:38

V. A Game of Darts

Track length1:05

VI. Forlane

Track length1:56

VII. The Artful Dodger

Track length1:21

McCabe, J: Lamentation Rag

Work length1:31

Jane Ford

McCabe, J: Snowfall In Winter

Work length5:21

Jane Ford

McCabe, J: Tunstall Chimes

Work length6:34

Jane Ford

McCabe, J: Epithalamium

Work length13:22

Jane Ford

McCabe, J: Berceuse

Work length7:34

Jane Ford

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John McCabe's contribution to 20th and 21st Century music in every genre except the grandest of opera is hard to overvalue, for its variety, quality and boundless invention within a consistent self-contained aesthetic. It is often thoughtful or delicate but can achieve great, organically generated, expressive force, seen nowhere more clearly than in the keyboard works. The piano music overall is a hugely rewarding treasure house for performers interested in contemporary repertoire: it contains things that disturb, things that beguile, things that intrigue, things of complexity, things of startling simplicity and virtuosic tours-de-force. While never holding back from making great demands on players' technique or relishing sonoric possibilities, bravura writing is the outcome of thematic development or structural working rather than indulgence in gratuitous pyrotechnics. The greatest masterpieces, are broad in outline, meticulous in detail; the lightest trifles effective and engaging; all are original in concept, technicality and articulation, distinguished by clarity of vision, process and expression, powerful without rhetoric or light without triviality. The commonality of intent in McCabe's kaleidoscopic expressive range lies not in the genre - he was not a slave to genre - but in the mind and imagination of the composer.

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January 2018

Even more than her actual playing, which is exciting enough, the project is being realised by a pianist and label with no particular connection to McCabe the man: the quality of his piano music speaks for itself. Ford’s colourful playing shows a clear understanding of the music’s wide variety of moods. Prima Facie’s sound is excellent.

The Complete Piano Works of John McCabe

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