Burge / Chiu: Twenty-Four Preludes - COMPACT DISCS

Title: Twenty-Four Preludes
Artist: Burge / Chiu
Label: Centrediscs
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 773811273191
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2019-11-01
Number of Discs: 1

John Burge (b. 1961, Dryden, Ontario) is a Canadian composer who has been teaching at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario since 1987. He has written a large body of vocal, chamber, and orchestral compositions, and received the 2009 JUNO Award for Classical Composition of the Year. Some critics have likened his compositional style to that of Benjamin Britten and Maxwell Davies. Philip Chiu is acclaimed for his brilliant pianism, sensitive listening, and a stage presence that eschews the hermit-pianist image in favour of openness, authenticity, and connection with audiences. Inaugural winner of the Mecenat Musica Prix Goyer, Chiu has become one of Canada's leading musicians through his infectious love of music and his passion for creation and communication. Given the number of precedents in the world of Classical music, it is fair to state that there is a long traditional of composing a set of Twenty-Four Preludes for solo piano. John Burge's preludes draw their primary influence from Chopin's Opus 28 set in that Burge also composes one prelude in each major and minor key, employing the exact same ordering of keys used by Chopin. While Chopin was writing music in the highly chromaticized harmonic language of the early 19th century, in 2015, the year that Burge completed his set, the concept of tonality has undergone so many developments since Chopin's time that there are now whole schools of musical techniques that produce music that is quite atonal. As an all-governing principle for his set of preludes though, Burge made it a personal requirement that each prelude had to embrace it's tonic key in a decisively audible fashion.

Tracks:
1.1 Twenty-Four Preludes for Solo Piano~No. 1 C Major
1.2 Twenty-Four Preludes for Solo Piano~No. 2 A Minor - Bells in Winter
1.3 Twenty-Four Preludes for Solo Piano~No. 3 G Major - Playground Games
1.4 Twenty-Four Preludes for Solo Piano~No. 4 E Minor
1.5 Twenty-Four Preludes for Solo Piano~No. 5 D Major - Linear Reverberations
1.6 Twenty-Four Preludes for Solo Piano~No. 6 B Minor - Off-Beat Waltz
1.7 Twenty-Four Preludes for Solo Piano~No. 7 A Major
1.8 Twenty-Four Preludes for Solo Piano~No. 8 F-sharp Minor
1.9 Twenty-Four Preludes for Solo Piano~No. 9 E Major - The Singing Clock
1.10 Twenty-Four Preludes for Solo Piano~No. 10 C-sharp Minor
1.11 Twenty-Four Preludes for Solo Piano~No. 11 B Major - The Autoharp
1.12 Twenty-Four Preludes for Solo Piano~No. 12 G-sharp Minor - Das Thema
1.13 Twenty-Four Preludes for Solo Piano~No. 13 F-sharp Major - One-note Ostinato
1.14 Twenty-Four Preludes for Solo Piano~No. 14 E-flat Minor
1.15 Twenty-Four Preludes for Solo Piano~No. 15 D-flat Major - Polytonality
1.16 Twenty-Four Preludes for Solo Piano~No. 16 B-flat Minor - The Hummingbird
1.17 Twenty-Four Preludes for Solo Piano~No. 17 A-flat Major - The Aeolian Harp
1.18 Twenty-Four Preludes for Solo Piano~No. 18 F Minor
1.19 Twenty-Four Preludes for Solo Piano~No. 19 E-flat Major - The Deadline
1.20 Twenty-Four Preludes for Solo Piano~No. 20 C Minor
1.21 Twenty-Four Preludes for Solo Piano~No. 21 B-flat Major
1.22 Twenty-Four Preludes for Solo Piano~No. 22 G Minor
1.23 Twenty-Four Preludes for Solo Piano~No. 23 F Major - Spring Thaw
1.24 Twenty-Four Preludes for Solo Piano~No. 24 D Minor - La Fin