Wordsworth: Complete Music for Solo Piano / Guild

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Label
Toccata
Release Date
September 1, 2023
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      William Wordsworth
    • PERFORMER
      Christopher Guild
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 01, 2023
    • UPC
      5060113446978
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      TOCC0697
    • LABEL
      Toccata
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Piano
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Maestoso - Allegro deciso

      Composer: William Wordsworth

      Performer: Christopher Guild

    2. II. Largamente e calmato

      Composer: William Wordsworth

      Performer: Christopher Guild

    3. III. Allegro molto - Poco adagio - Tempo I

      Composer: William Wordsworth

      Performer: Christopher Guild

    4. No. 1. Prelude

      Composer: William Wordsworth

      Performer: Christopher Guild

    5. No. 2. Scherzo

      Composer: William Wordsworth

      Performer: Christopher Guild

    6. No. 3. Rhapsody

      Composer: William Wordsworth

      Performer: Christopher Guild

    7. I. Prelude

      Composer: William Wordsworth

      Performer: Christopher Guild

    8. II. Scherzo

      Composer: William Wordsworth

      Performer: Christopher Guild

    9. III. Nocturne

      Composer: William Wordsworth

      Performer: Christopher Guild

    10. IV. Fughetta

      Composer: William Wordsworth

      Performer: Christopher Guild

    11. Ballade, Op. 41

      Composer: William Wordsworth

      Performer: Christopher Guild

    12. A Tale from Long Ago

      Composer: William Wordsworth

      Performer: Christopher Guild

    13. March of the Giants

      Composer: William Wordsworth

      Performer: Christopher Guild

    14. Ding Dong Bell

      Composer: William Wordsworth

      Performer: Christopher Guild

    15. Snowflakes

      Composer: William Wordsworth

      Performer: Christopher Guild

    16. Fireside Story

      Composer: William Wordsworth

      Performer: Christopher Guild

    17. Bedtime (Six O'Clock)

      Composer: William Wordsworth

      Performer: Christopher Guild

    18. Bedtime Story

      Composer: William Wordsworth

      Performer: Christopher Guild

    19. Hornpipe

      Composer: William Wordsworth

      Performer: Christopher Guild

    20. Valediction, Op. 82

      Composer: William Wordsworth

      Performer: Christopher Guild


The reputation of the Anglo-Scottish composer William Wordsworth (1908–88), great-great-grandnephew of the poet, has recently been restored by a series of Toccata Classics albums of his orchestral music. His piano music, too, was poorly known before now, none of it recorded since a handful of pieces appeared on LP 60 years ago – though his epic Piano Sonata is a work of major importance. This first ever complete recording reveals an honest, unfussy approach to the keyboard akin to that of two other major symphonists, Sibelius and Rubbra: like them, Wordsworth’s primary concern seems to have been the expression of deep feeling – which makes the gentle story-telling of his miniatures for children all the more surprising.