Burge: 24 Preludes

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Centrediscs CMC
Release Date
November 1, 2019
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BURGE, JOHN
    • PERFORMER
      Philip Chiu
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 01, 2019
    • UPC
      773811273191
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CMCCD 27319
    • LABEL
      Centrediscs CMC
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1 in C Major

      Composer: John Burge

      Performer: Philip Chiu

    2. No. 2 in A Minor: Bells in Winter

      Composer: John Burge

      Performer: Philip Chiu

    3. No. 3 in G Major: Playground Games

      Composer: John Burge

      Performer: Philip Chiu

    4. No. 4 in E Minor

      Composer: John Burge

      Performer: Philip Chiu

    5. No. 5 in D Major: Linear Reverberations

      Composer: John Burge

      Performer: Philip Chiu

    6. No. 6 in B Minor: Off-beat Waltz

      Composer: John Burge

      Performer: Philip Chiu

    7. No. 7 in A Major

      Composer: John Burge

      Performer: Philip Chiu

    8. No. 8 in F-Sharp Minor

      Composer: John Burge

      Performer: Philip Chiu

    9. No. 9 in E Major: The Singing Clock

      Composer: John Burge

      Performer: Philip Chiu

    10. No. 10 in C-Sharp Minor

      Composer: John Burge

      Performer: Philip Chiu

    11. No. 11 in B Major: The Autoharp

      Composer: John Burge

      Performer: Philip Chiu

    12. No. 12 in G-Sharp Minor: Das Thema

      Composer: John Burge

      Performer: Philip Chiu

    13. No. 13 in F-Sharp Major: One-note Ostinato

      Composer: John Burge

      Performer: Philip Chiu

    14. No. 14 in E-Flat Minor

      Composer: John Burge

      Performer: Philip Chiu

    15. No. 15 in D-Flat Major: Polytonality

      Composer: John Burge

      Performer: Philip Chiu

    16. No. 16 in B-Flat Minor: The Hummingbird

      Composer: John Burge

      Performer: Philip Chiu

    17. No. 17 in A-Flat Major: The Aeolian Harp

      Composer: John Burge

      Performer: Philip Chiu

    18. No. 18 in F Minor

      Composer: John Burge

      Performer: Philip Chiu

    19. No. 19 in E-Flat Major: The Deadline

      Composer: John Burge

      Performer: Philip Chiu

    20. No. 20 in C Minor

      Composer: John Burge

      Performer: Philip Chiu

    21. No. 21 in B-Flat Major

      Composer: John Burge

      Performer: Philip Chiu

    22. No. 22 in G Minor

      Composer: John Burge

      Performer: Philip Chiu

    23. No. 23 in F Major: Spring Thaw

      Composer: John Burge

      Performer: Philip Chiu

    24. No. 24 in D Minor: La Fin

      Composer: John Burge

      Performer: Philip Chiu


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.