Percy Turnbull: Piano Music Volume 10: Piano: Instrumental Album

Pasticcio On A Theme Of Mozart-Percy Turnbull born near Newcastle Upon Tyne in 1902 had his earliest musical training as a cathedral chorister. At the RCM in the 1920s Turnbull studied with Vaughan Williams Holst and John Ireland. Turnbull was a highly accomplished pianist and spent much of his life earning his living as an accompanist performer and teacher. His understandng of the instrument and his extremely wide knowledge of the piano repertoire led him to produce highly varied and colourful output. His interests were almost entirely for miniature forms: suites preludes studies variations and character pieces. All of these pieces be they athletically virtuoso or deftly simple show a flair forthe idiom and perhaps more importantly they lend an historically significant and stylistically interesting perspective to the literature of twentieth-century British piano music.

Seven Character Pieces-A wonderful collection of pieces for Piano Solo by one of the great British pianists of the last century Percy Turnbull. These wonderful pieces were written between 1923 and 1927 and it is clear that they are sketches of friends and colleagues at the Royal College of Music. These pieces reveal his versatility and technical dexterity and demonstrate his ear for both detail and melody. Book three in this series of Turnbull's Piano music.

The work of British composer Percy Turnbull is less well known than some of his counterparts but interest in his works is steadily on the increase. Drawing from wide influences such as Roussel Fauré Delius and Bartok his individual and original compositional style often incorporates French and English music. Dating from the mid-1930s his Romance for Violin and Piano is typical of his work; unostentatious and uncomplicated while maintaining a sense of harmonic and technical mastery. Wonderfully written for Violin and Piano this is a vivid and eloquent piece that will be enjoyed by both listeners and performers.