Great American Sonatas
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Label: Somm
Cat No: SOMMCD0163
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 3rd January 2017
Contents
Artists
Nathan Williamson (piano)Works
Piano SonataPiano Sonata
Largo ostinato
Piano Sonata no.3
Three-page Sonata
Artists
Nathan Williamson (piano)About
The disc includes sonatas by four very different American composers writing under very different circumstances: Leonard Bernstein, a charismatic, ambitious all-round musician in his student years; Aaron Copland, an established master at the height of his powers; Lou Harrison, an inveterate experimentalist setting himself a new problem; and Charles Ives, a dogged individualist insisting on his own way of doing things. In each case, the composer chose not to fit his music into conventional forms, but to rethink the whole idea of the sonata. America is after all the land of the clean sheet, the fresh start – of making things fresh, exciting and new.
Nathan, who leads a diverse and varied career as pianist, composer and artistic director, studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Joan Havill and Malcolm Singer, at Oxford University with Robert Saxton, and at Yale with Martin Bresnick and Joan Panetti and American composer Ezra Laderman Dean of the Yale School of Music and President of American Academy of Arts and Letters, who died last year at the age of 90. Nathan has dedicated this recording to Laderman as a tribute to a great teacher whose far-reaching influence has inspired him to study the work of American composers in great depth.
‘There are few recordings of these works that equal this. The artist’s technique and pianistic command allow him an ideal musical freedom. The effect is of intense commitment and an ultimate sense of poetry.’ - Bryce Morrison of Williamson’s debut solo disc Brahms & Schubert: Late Piano Works, released in 2013.
‘Williamson’s approach is visionary and romantic. But in this he is never crude, mannered or artificial. Rather one senses he has looked deep inside these works and explored their complex interior with thoughtful contemplation as well as love and empathy.’ - Donald Sturrock
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