Lockdown Blues / Peter Dickinson, piano

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Label
SOMM Recordings
Release Date
November 19, 2021
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Various
    • PERFORMER
      Peter Dickinson
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 19, 2021
    • UPC
      748871064423
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SOMMCD 0644
    • LABEL
      SOMM Recordings
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Visual/Audio Compilations
    Works ⌄

    1. Freda's Blues

      Composer: Peter Dickinson

      Performer: Peter Dickinson

    2. Woodland Sketches, Op. 51: No. 1. To a Wild Rose

      Composer: Edward MacDowell

      Performer: Peter Dickinson

    3. Blue Rose

      Composer: Peter Dickinson

      Performer: Peter Dickinson

    4. Elegiac Blues (version for piano)

      Composer: Constant Lambert

      Performer: Peter Dickinson

    5. Lockdown Blues

      Composer: Peter Dickinson

      Performer: Peter Dickinson

    6. Nocturnes, FP 56: No. 4 in C Minor, "Bal fantôme"

      Composer: Francis Poulenc

      Performer: Peter Dickinson

    7. Canzonetta, Op. 48 (arr. P. Dickinson for piano)

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Performer: Peter Dickinson

    8. 6 Preludes, Op. 23: No. 6. Andante

      Composer: Lennox Berkeley

      Performer: Peter Dickinson

    9. Three-Quarter Blues, "Irish Waltz"

      Composer: George Gershwin

      Performer: Peter Dickinson

    10. Pastourelle, FP 45

      Composer: Francis Poulenc

      Performer: Peter Dickinson

    11. Gnossienne No. 1

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Peter Dickinson

    12. Gnossienne No. 2

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Peter Dickinson

    13. Gnossienne No. 3

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Peter Dickinson

    14. Who cares? (version for piano)

      Composer: George Gershwin

      Performer: Peter Dickinson

    15. Kaleidoscope, Op. 18: X. Lament for a Departed Doll (version for piano)

      Composer: Eugène Goossens

      Performer: Peter Dickinson

    16. No. 1. Lent et douloureux

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Peter Dickinson

    17. No. 2. Lent et triste

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Peter Dickinson

    18. No. 3. Lent et grave

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Peter Dickinson

    19. It Don't Mean a Thing (If it Ain't Got That Swing) (arr. P. Dickinson for piano)

      Composer: Duke Ellington

      Performer: Peter Dickinson

    20. Solitude (arr. P. Dickinson for piano)

      Composer: Duke Ellington, Eddie De Lange, Irving Mills

      Performer: Peter Dickinson

    21. Don't Get Around Much Anymore (arr. P. Dickinson for piano)

      Composer: Duke Ellington

      Performer: Peter Dickinson

    22. Lost in Meditation (arr. P. Dickinson for piano)

      Composer: Duke Ellington

      Performer: Peter Dickinson

    23. I Never Felt This Way Before (arr. P. Dickinson for piano)

      Composer: Duke Ellington

      Performer: Peter Dickinson

    24. Sophisticated Lady (arr. P. Dickinson for piano)

      Composer: Duke Ellington

      Performer: Peter Dickinson

    25. In a Sentimental Mood (arr. P. Dickinson for piano)

      Composer: Duke Ellington

      Performer: Peter Dickinson

    26. Azure (arr. P. Dickinson for piano)

      Composer: Duke Ellington

      Performer: Peter Dickinson

    27. Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me (arr. P. Dickinson for piano)

      Composer: Duke Ellington

      Performer: Peter Dickinson

    28. Mood Indigo (arr. P. Dickinson for piano)

      Composer: Duke Ellington, Barney Bigard

      Performer: Peter Dickinson

    29. Day Dream (arr. P. Dickinson for piano)

      Composer: Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn

      Performer: Peter Dickinson

    30. Prelude to a Kiss (arr. P. Dickinson for piano)

      Composer: Duke Ellington

      Performer: Peter Dickinson

    31. In a Landscape

      Composer: John Cage

      Performer: Peter Dickinson


SOMM Recordings announces the perfect escape from Lockdown Blues with a collection of appealing piano miniatures compiled and performed by Peter Dickinson to chase all your cares away. Lockdown Blues includes soothing masterpieces by Erik Satie (Trois Gnossiennes, Trois Gymnopédies), Francis Poulenc (Bal fantôme, Pastourelle) and Edward MacDowell (To a Wild Rose), alongside Eugene Goossens' melancholic Lament for a Departed Doll and Samuel Barber's valedictory Canzonetta. There is whimsy in George Gershwin's Three-Quarter Blues (familiar to British audiences as the theme to radio and television's After Henry) and Who Cares? from the musical Of Thee I Sing. Of interest are 12 iconic jazz tunes by Duke Ellington. Heard here in their original sheet-music versions, they are pure Ellington, the product of a sophisticated composer. Among featured classic songs are Solitude, Don't Get Around Much Anymore, Mood Indigo and It Don't Mean a Thing (If it Ain't Got That Swing). In his introduction, renowned broadcaster and writer Humphrey Burton describes Lockdown Blues as 'a delightful hour of discovery', hailing the Ellington selections as 'a real find that will surely be much anthologized long after Lockdown has been forgotten'. The disc is completed by three pieces by Dickinson - the titular Lockdown Blues, Freda's Blues and Blue Rose, a take on MacDowell's To a Wild Rose - together with Constant Lambert's Elegiac Blues, Lennox Berkeley's Prelude VI and John Cage's Satie-influenced In a Landscape. Peter Dickinson's career as a pianist has largely been in recitals, broadcasts and recordings with his sister, mezzo Meriel Dickinson, and he has worked with many other performers. Dickinson's Paraphrase II is included on Nathan Williamson's 20th-century British piano music collection, Colour and Light (SOMMCD 0196) and was praised by the British Music Society as 'a Theme with six hugely contrasting variations exploring the outer edges of tonality in a brilliant, structurally refined way'.