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Centrediscs CMC

Burge: 24 Preludes

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Details

Composer
BURGE, JOHN
Artist
Philip Chiu
Format
CD
Label
Centrediscs CMC
Released
Nov 01, 2019
Catalog #
CMCCD 27319
UPC
773811273191

About

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.

Tracklist 24 tracks

  1. 1 No. 1 in C Major 01:45
    Track
    1
    Title
    No. 1 in C Major
    Duration
    01:45
    Composer
    John Burge
    Performer
    Philip Chiu
  2. 2 No. 2 in A Minor: Bells in Winter 01:24
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 2 in A Minor: Bells in Winter
    Duration
    01:24
    Composer
    John Burge
    Performer
    Philip Chiu
  3. 3 No. 3 in G Major: Playground Games 01:06
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 3 in G Major: Playground Games
    Duration
    01:06
    Composer
    John Burge
    Performer
    Philip Chiu
  4. 4 No. 4 in E Minor 02:30
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 4 in E Minor
    Duration
    02:30
    Composer
    John Burge
    Performer
    Philip Chiu
  5. 5 No. 5 in D Major: Linear Reverberations 02:19
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 5 in D Major: Linear Reverberations
    Duration
    02:19
    Composer
    John Burge
    Performer
    Philip Chiu
  6. 6 No. 6 in B Minor: Off-beat Waltz 01:30
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 6 in B Minor: Off-beat Waltz
    Duration
    01:30
    Composer
    John Burge
    Performer
    Philip Chiu
  7. 7 No. 7 in A Major 01:33
    Track
    7
    Title
    No. 7 in A Major
    Duration
    01:33
    Composer
    John Burge
    Performer
    Philip Chiu
  8. 8 No. 8 in F-Sharp Minor 02:01
    Track
    8
    Title
    No. 8 in F-Sharp Minor
    Duration
    02:01
    Composer
    John Burge
    Performer
    Philip Chiu
  9. 9 No. 9 in E Major: The Singing Clock 02:30
    Track
    9
    Title
    No. 9 in E Major: The Singing Clock
    Duration
    02:30
    Composer
    John Burge
    Performer
    Philip Chiu
  10. 10 No. 10 in C-Sharp Minor 01:56
    Track
    10
    Title
    No. 10 in C-Sharp Minor
    Duration
    01:56
    Composer
    John Burge
    Performer
    Philip Chiu
  11. 11 No. 11 in B Major: The Autoharp 01:56
    Track
    11
    Title
    No. 11 in B Major: The Autoharp
    Duration
    01:56
    Composer
    John Burge
    Performer
    Philip Chiu
  12. 12 No. 12 in G-Sharp Minor: Das Thema 03:09
    Track
    12
    Title
    No. 12 in G-Sharp Minor: Das Thema
    Duration
    03:09
    Composer
    John Burge
    Performer
    Philip Chiu
  13. 13 No. 13 in F-Sharp Major: One-note Ostinato 03:20
    Track
    13
    Title
    No. 13 in F-Sharp Major: One-note Ostinato
    Duration
    03:20
    Composer
    John Burge
    Performer
    Philip Chiu
  14. 14 No. 14 in E-Flat Minor 01:02
    Track
    14
    Title
    No. 14 in E-Flat Minor
    Duration
    01:02
    Composer
    John Burge
    Performer
    Philip Chiu
  15. 15 No. 15 in D-Flat Major: Polytonality 05:36
    Track
    15
    Title
    No. 15 in D-Flat Major: Polytonality
    Duration
    05:36
    Composer
    John Burge
    Performer
    Philip Chiu
  16. 16 No. 16 in B-Flat Minor: The Hummingbird 02:01
    Track
    16
    Title
    No. 16 in B-Flat Minor: The Hummingbird
    Duration
    02:01
    Composer
    John Burge
    Performer
    Philip Chiu
  17. 17 No. 17 in A-Flat Major: The Aeolian Harp 02:00
    Track
    17
    Title
    No. 17 in A-Flat Major: The Aeolian Harp
    Duration
    02:00
    Composer
    John Burge
    Performer
    Philip Chiu
  18. 18 No. 18 in F Minor 02:20
    Track
    18
    Title
    No. 18 in F Minor
    Duration
    02:20
    Composer
    John Burge
    Performer
    Philip Chiu
  19. 19 No. 19 in E-Flat Major: The Deadline 02:16
    Track
    19
    Title
    No. 19 in E-Flat Major: The Deadline
    Duration
    02:16
    Composer
    John Burge
    Performer
    Philip Chiu
  20. 20 No. 20 in C Minor 01:37
    Track
    20
    Title
    No. 20 in C Minor
    Duration
    01:37
    Composer
    John Burge
    Performer
    Philip Chiu
  21. 21 No. 21 in B-Flat Major 01:58
    Track
    21
    Title
    No. 21 in B-Flat Major
    Duration
    01:58
    Composer
    John Burge
    Performer
    Philip Chiu
  22. 22 No. 22 in G Minor 01:01
    Track
    22
    Title
    No. 22 in G Minor
    Duration
    01:01
    Composer
    John Burge
    Performer
    Philip Chiu
  23. 23 No. 23 in F Major: Spring Thaw 03:07
    Track
    23
    Title
    No. 23 in F Major: Spring Thaw
    Duration
    03:07
    Composer
    John Burge
    Performer
    Philip Chiu
  24. 24 No. 24 in D Minor: La Fin 03:56
    Track
    24
    Title
    No. 24 in D Minor: La Fin
    Duration
    03:56
    Composer
    John Burge
    Performer
    Philip Chiu