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| Title | Piano Sonata No 1, Op 14 |
| Contributors |
John McLeod (composer) |
| Composition date | 1978 1978 |
| Duration (mins) | 14 |
| Category | keyboard |
| Instrumentation | Pf |
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| Programme Note | John McLeod's Piano Sonata No.1 was commissioned by Peter Evans and first performed by him at the 1978 Edinburgh Festival. It was given its London premiere at the Wigmore Hall by Bryn Turley in April 1980. Many pianists have since taken it up and in 1996 it was recorded by Murray McLachlan on a complete CD of McLeod's piano music (Redbook Records RBCD002). This album can now be downloaded from the Chandos site www.theclassicalshop.net and entering in the search box John McLeod Mp3 or it can be purchased online at www.tutti.co.uk Dr Roger B Williams writes in the CD sleeve note: Like Schubert's Wanderer Fantasy, which in turn inspired Liszt's great Sonata in B minor, McLeod's sonata is a compact single movement which contains within its structure the contrasting fast-slow-fast components of classical form. The dramatic introduction alternates Maestoso brillante and Allegro moderato statements, setting out the main ideas of the sonata in fragmented form. These are then subjected to extension and development, culminating in a brilliant fugato and a virtuosic coda. Dr Roger B Williams, 1996 |
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