Peter Dickinson: Solo Piano Music

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	Wild Rose Rag - Wild Rose Rag
	Blue Rose - Blue Rose
	Paraphrase 2 - Theme: quarter note = 80 or less
	Paraphrase 2 - Variation 1: quarter note = 120-132
	Paraphrase 2 - Variation 2: quarter note = 50
	Paraphrase 2 - Variation 3: quarter note = 120
	Paraphrase 2 - Variation 4: quarter note = 104-120
	Paraphrase 2 - Variation 5: quartet note = 54
	Paraphrase 2 - Variation 6: quarter note = 120-132
	Concerto Rag - Concerto Rag
	Quartet Rag - Quartet Rag
	Vitalitas Variations - Theme: Con moto
	Vitalitas Variations - Variation 1: Andante
	Vitalitas Variations - Variation 2: Allegretto
	Vitalitas Variations - Variation 3: Lento
	Vitalitas Variations - Variation 4: Moderato
	Vitalitas Variations - Variation 5: Andante
	Vitalitas Variations - Variation 6: Lento
	Vitalitas Variations - Variation 7: Vivace - Quasi lento - Allegro
	Satie Transformations - No. 1. —
	Satie Transformations - No. 2. —
	Satie Transformations - No. 3. —
	Bach in Blue - Bach in Blue
	Hymn-Tune Rag - Hymn-Tune Rag
	Patriotic Rag - Patriotic Rag
	Piano Blues - No. 1. Extremely slow and quiet
	Piano Blues - No. 2. Very slow and intense
	Piano Blues - No. 3. Very slow and intimate
	Piano Blues - No. 4. Slow and sustained
	5 Diversions - No. 1. Amiable
	5 Diversions - No. 2. Lyrical
	5 Diversions - No. 3. Gently jazzy
	5 Diversions - No. 4. Quiet and dreamy
	5 Diversions - No. 5. Lively and brash

Album Summary

Dickinson, Peter : Wild Rose Rag, for piano

Dickinson, Peter : Blue Rose, for piano

Dickinson, Peter : Paraphrase no 2, for piano

Dickinson, Peter : Concerto Rag, for piano

Dickinson, Peter : Quartet Rag, for piano

Dickinson, Peter : Vitalitas Variations, for piano

Dickinson, Peter : Satie Transformations (3), for piano (based on Satie's "Gnossiennes")

Dickinson, Peter : Bach In Blue, for piano

Dickinson, Peter : Hymn-Tune Rag, for piano

Dickinson, Peter : Patriotic Rag, for piano

Dickinson, Peter : Blues (4) for piano

Dickinson, Peter : Diversions (5), for piano

Performer

Peter Dickinson (Piano)

Composer

Peter Dickinson (1934 - )

Notes & Reviews:

This eccentric and often amusing collection contains Peter Dickinson's rags, blues and take-offs in first recordings of all but one of the works. Christopher Palmer said about Dickinson's music, 'Conflicts, juxtapositions, attempted syntheses - his work is full of them, all shook-up, all mixed up, all jazzed-up... yet always keenly imagined and meticulously reasoned and realised'.

Gramophone
Gorgeous harmonies and fresh rhythmic invention [Dickinson] divines throughout his blues-to-boogie revamping of Satie's Gnossiennes never fail to delight and engage the ear. The same can be said for his slow and spacious Four Piano Blues.

Classic FM
Best of all are Blue Rose and Bach in Blue, a hauntingly lovely treatment of Bach's C major Prelude No.1 from The Well-Tempered Clavier. As you would expect, the composer's playing is immaculate - and he also provides an illuminating booklet; altogether an impressive achievement.

MusicWeb International
A more versatile listener than I will likely enjoy all of it, but Peter Dickinson is a composer comfortable in an impressive range of styles and able to play it all. This album is a pleasure.

American Record Guide
Mr Dickinson is a wonderful pianist, and the recordings... sound great.

MusicWeb International
This is an excellent CD. However as noted above there is a serious side to what is billed as 'eccentric and often amusing'. I like virtually every track on this disc. However I could just about manage to get by without the rags and the blues. The Paraphrase and the Vitalitas are much more enduring and demanding works that deserve to be in the repertoire for all time.

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