Category: Piano

• Benedetto Boccuzzi: À Claude

  The Claude in question is Mr Debussy but if you’re expecting an album of Clair de Lune delicacy you’d be mistaken, as Boccuzzi’s album takes off from where Debussy leads, moving from the dreamy to the avante garde, the idea being to show the link between Debussy and composers old and new, including Boccuzzi himself. […]

  jerobear

  July 6, 2021

  Classical, Piano

  À Claude, Benedetto Boccuzzi, Claude Debussy, Congleton Chronicle, George Crumb, Jem Condliffe, Messiaen

• Zeynep Ucbasaran: 1847, Liszt in Istanbul

  This lively and more-ish album of piano music consists of a selection of works from the 1847 Istanbul recitals of Franz Liszt.Lizst had arrived to entertain and was given a seven-octave piano by craftsman Sébastien Pierre Erard to play on while he was in what was then Constantinople. He played at the Royal Palace, the […]

  jerobear

  July 6, 2021

  Classical, Piano

  1847, Congleton Chronicle, dda 25213., Divine Art, Liszt in Istanbul, Review Corner, Zeynep Ucbasaran

• Jill Crossland: JS Bach Keyboard Works

  This is one of those CDs we struggle to review: “Bach keyboard played well” is a little short, so we resorted to the biography and sleeve notes. The playing sounds difficult but Crossland is up to the task; for most of the CD the music flows around the listener like a fast river of notes, […]

  jerobear

  March 15, 2021

  Classical, Piano

  baroque, Blues, brother, buy busic, Classical, early, English Suite No.2, funk, good new music, jazz, Jem Condliffe, Jill Crossland, JS Bach Keyboard Works, pop, Reggae, reviews, rock, soul

• Mirian Conti: Tangorama, An Anthology of 20th Century Tango, Vol.1

  Conti writes in the sleeve notes that when she studied at the conservatory in Buenos Aires in the 1970s, she did not analyse a tango let alone play one; she herself dismissed tango orchestras and singers as “those old tango guys”. It was only when she moved to the US that she discovered her home […]

  jerobear

  March 7, 2021

  Classical, Piano

  An Anthology of 20th Century Tango, baroque, Blues, brother, buy busic, CDs, Chronicle Series, Classical, Congleton Chronicle, early, funk, good new music, GP856, jazz, Jem Condliffe, Mirian Conti, music, pop, Reggae, Review Corner, reviews, rock, soul, support music, tango, Tangorama, Vol.1, Yamaha Disklavier

• Roderick Chadwick: La Mer Bleue

  This technical and slightly self-involved album revolves around Catalogue d’Oiseaux (“Catalogue of birds”), a work for piano solo by Olivier Messiaen. The full work is 13 pieces, devoted to birds and dedicated to his second wife Yvonne Lorio. The CD takes in the first three, the Alpine chough (chocard des Alpes), The Eurasian golden oriole […]

  jerobear

  January 8, 2021

  Classical, Piano

  baroque, Blues, brother, buy busic, Catalogue d’oiseaux, CDs, Chronicle Series, Classical, Congleton Chronicle, DDA 25209, early, funk, good new music, interlude for violins, jazz, Jem Condliffe, La Mer Bleue, music, Op. 36, Piano Sonata No. 3, pop, postlude for violins, Reggae, Review Corner, reviews, rock, Roderick Chadwick, soul

• Zeynep Ucbasaran and Sergio Gallo: Liszt to Milhaud, A journey With Piano Four hands

  This is one for those of you who like Last Night of the Proms, not to sing along to the traditional/jingoistic lyrics (delete as applicable) but because you like to turn the stereogram up loud and listen to cracking tunes to which you can hum along. The sleeve notes explain that before the invention of […]

  jerobear

  December 31, 2020

  Classical, Piano

  A journey With Piano Four hands, baroque, Blues, brother, buy busic, CDs, Chronicle Series, Classical, Congleton Chronicle, early, funk, good new music, jazz, Jem Condliffe, Liszt to Milhaud, music, pop, Reggae, Review Corner, reviews, rock, Sergio Gallo, soul, Zeynep Ucbasaran

• Murray McLachlan: Gregson: Complete Piano

  This is an appealing collection of piano pieces. It takes in different styles and sounds, and ranges from the intimate to the more extravagantly romantic, but it’s got a definite charm throughout. It gets off to a cheery start with An Album For My Friends, 11 pieces written for friends and showing a love of […]

  jerobear

  October 1, 2020

  Classical, Piano

  8574222, A Song for Sue, An Album For My Friends, baroque, Blues, brother, buy busic, CDs, Chronicle Series, Classical, Congleton Chronicle, early, Four Pictures, funk, good new music, Gregson: Complete Piano, jazz, Jem Condliffe, Murray McLachlan, music, pop, Reggae, Review Corner, reviews, rock, soul

• Pete Judge: Piano 2

  Kicking sand in the face of under-achievers everywhere is Pete Judge, a professional trumpet player with the jazz / rock quartet Get The Blessing, but who can play more than one instrument, in this case the piano; this is a collection of tunes he wrote for another band he’s in, Three Cane Whale. It’s a […]

  jerobear

  September 30, 2020

  Ambient, Classical, Piano

  baroque, Blues, brother, Brute Angels, buy busic, CDs, Chronicle Series, Classical, Congleton Chronicle, Cruc, early, funk, Get The Blessing, good new music, It Pains The Lips To Think Of Bugles, jazz, Jem Condliffe, music, Pete Judge, petejudgemusic.com, Piano 2, pop, Purr, Reggae, Review Corner, reviews, rock, soul, Stonecrop, Three Cane Whale, West-Running Brook, Wheatfield With Crows

• Murray McLachlan: Gregson: Complete Piano

  This is an appealing collection of piano pieces. It takes in different styles and sounds, and ranges from the intimate to the more extravagantly romantic, but it’s got a definite charm throughout. It gets off to a cheery start with An Album For My Friends, 11 pieces written for friends and showing a love of […]

  jerobear

  September 22, 2020

  Classical, Piano

  Gregson: Complete Piano, Murray McLachlan

• Thomas Bartlett: Shelter

  Pianist/producer Thomas Bartlett has toured the world and worked with people from The National to David Byrne and produced the likes of St Vincent and Sufjan Stevens, with whom he earned Academy award and Grammy award nominations. But like all the rest of us, come lockdown he was stuck at home with only his piano […]

  jerobear

  September 15, 2020

  Ambient, Classical, Piano

  Arvensis, baroque, Blues, brother, CDs, Chronicle Series, Classical, Congleton Chronicle, early, funk, jazz, Jem Condliffe, Lucida, Moschato, Multiflora, music, Phoenicia, pop, Reggae, Review Corner, reviews, rock, Rubrifolia, Rugosa, Shelter, soul, Thomas Bartlett, Xanthina