Ronald Center: Piano Music

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This anthology gives a useful impression of the Scottish composer’s style and quality — Financial Times, 16th November 2013 More…

Release Date: 2nd Sep 2013
Catalogue No: TOCC0179
Label: Toccata Classics
Length: 67 minutes

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Center: Piano Sonata

Work length12:23

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Christopher Guild (piano)
Recorded: 26-27 April 2013
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom

I. Allegro molto

Track length4:04

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II. Adagio

Track length3:22

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III. Andante - Presto ed appassionato - Allegro

Track length3:01

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IV. Molto allegro

Track length1:56

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Center: 6 Bagatelles, Op. 3

Work length15:00

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Christopher Guild (piano)
Recorded: 26-27 April 2013
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom

No. 1. Poco adagio e teneramente

Track length2:13

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No. 2. Allegro

Track length2:24

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No. 3. Mesto

Track length5:14

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No. 4. Energico e ritmico

Track length1:37

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No. 5. Andantino

Track length2:26

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No. 6. Vivo

Track length1:06

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Center: Andante

Work length2:01

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Christopher Guild (piano)
Recorded: 26-27 April 2013
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom

Center: Sarabande

Work length1:50

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Christopher Guild (piano)
Recorded: 26-27 April 2013
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom

Center: Air

Work length1:53

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Christopher Guild (piano)
Recorded: 26-27 April 2013
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom

Center: Pantomime

Work length4:15

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Christopher Guild (piano)
Recorded: 26-27 April 2013
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom

No. 1. Pantaloon

Track length1:16

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No. 2. Columbine

Track length1:44

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No. 3. Harlequin

Track length1:15

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Center: Larghetto

Work length2:36

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Christopher Guild (piano)
Recorded: 26-27 April 2013
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom

Center: Sonatine

Work length7:57

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Christopher Guild (piano)
Recorded: 26-27 April 2013
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom

I. Allegro

Track length2:25

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II. Poco adagio

Track length3:31

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III. Vivace

Track length2:01

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Center: Hommage

Work length3:05

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Christopher Guild (piano)
Recorded: 26-27 April 2013
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom

Center: 3 Etudes

Work length5:35

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Christopher Guild (piano)
Recorded: 26-27 April 2013
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom

No. 1. Presto

Track length1:27

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No. 2. Andante

Track length2:34

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No. 3. Allegro moto

Track length1:34

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Center: Impromptu

Work length3:57

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Christopher Guild (piano)
Recorded: 26-27 April 2013
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom

Center: 3 Movements

Work length6:57

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Christopher Guild (piano)
Recorded: 26-27 April 2013
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom

No. 1. Prelude

Track length1:14

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No. 2. Poco Adagio

Track length3:41

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No. 3. Toccata

Track length2:02

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Ronald Center (1913–73) is sometimes described as ‘the Scottish Bartók’, and his music does indeed capture some of the wild energy of the Scottish landscape in a style of Bartókian asperity. It shows affinities with the music of Busoni, Debussy, Prokofiev, Shostakovich and Vaughan Williams, absorbed into an individual style that is audibly Scots. Center wrote with striking concision and meticulous craftsmanship, his works encompassing a range of emotions – heart-felt sorrow, grim humour, relaxed lyricism, dark despair – in a crisp and succinct manner, animated by sharp wit and irony. This April saw the centenary of Center’s birth, an anniversary unmarked in his native Scotland. This release came about through the efforts of three expatriate Scots: the pianist Christopher Guild, writer and Center expert James Reid Baxter and record-label-owner Martin Anderson of Toccata Classics. Center’s best-known student is the broadcaster James Naughtie, who has written fondly of his old teacher.

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16th November 2013

This anthology gives a useful impression of the Scottish composer’s style and quality

2nd December 2013

There is much here to attract the attention and maintain emotional and musical interest...This is a well recorded disc with a bloom but a natural sound. The Scottish pianist Christopher Guild is a fine advocate for this music.

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