Richard Casey, Ian Buckle - Burgess: Piano Works, Vol. 2 (2026) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Piano Sonatina: I. Moderato - Allegro
02. Piano Sonatina: II. Poco lento
03. Piano Sonatina: III. Allegretto con anima
04. Moses, Title Music
05. To Susan for Piano 4 Hands
06. 3 Fugues: No. 1 in D Minor
07. 3 Fugues: No. 2 in G Major
08. 3 Fugues: No. 3 in C Major
09. Untitled
10. Natale
11. Schnee in Savosa
12. Interlude for Small Organ
13. Allegro
14. Ringing in the Same (Or What I Owed to Joy)
15. Suite for Piano 4 Hands: I. Overture
16. Suite for Piano 4 Hands: II. Menuetto
17. Suite for Piano 4 Hands: III. Air I
18. Suite for Piano 4 Hands: IV. Musette
19. Suite for Piano 4 Hands: V. Gavotte
20. Suite for Piano 4 Hands: VI. Air II
22. Suite for Piano 4 Hands: VIII. Passacaglia
23. Suite for Piano 4 Hands: IX. Hornpipe
24. Suite for Piano 4 Hands: X. Fantasy on the Keel Row

Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) was a novelist, poet, playwright, lecturer, translator and literary journalist. Best known for his literary novels, including The Pianoplayers, Earthly Powers and A Clockwork Orange, he was also a prolific composer and arranger, writing a Symphony in C, a Piano Concerto, a Violin Concerto for Yehudi Menuhin, and more than 250 other musical works. Burgess writes about his formation as a composer in This Man and Music, his musical autobiography.

Piano Works Volume 2 brings together several pieces which have been very recently discovered in the Burgess archives in Texas and Manchester. Taken together, they illustrate the unexpected range and variety of his writing for piano. Some of the pieces are undated, but the most substantial work, Suite for Four Hands, can be dated to 1975, the year in which Burgess befriended the translator Susan Roberts, to whom the suite is dedicated. Previous Burgess recordings on CD have included 24 Preludes and Fugues, a selection of his orchestral music including the Shakespeare ballet Mr W.S., and The Piano Music of Anthony Burgess, a first selection of shorter piano works. Piano Works Volume 2 was recorded on Anthony Burgess’s own Bösendorfer piano at the Burgess Foundation in Manchester, by Richard Casey and Ian Buckle.

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