Michael Brough: 25 Picture-Preludes, Op. 19 Michael Brough
Album info
Album-Release:
2018
HRA-Release:
06.07.2018
Label: Toccata Classics
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Artist: Michael Brough
Composer: Michael Brough
Album including Album cover Booklet (PDF)
- Michael Brough: 25 Picture-Preludes, Op. 19:
- 1No. 1 in B Minor01:43
- 2No. 2 in D Major03:02
- 3No. 3 in F Major02:01
- 4No. 4 in D Minor02:37
- 5No. 5 in F Minor03:36
- 6No. 6 in A-Flat Major03:23
- 7No. 7 in G Minor03:43
- 8No. 8 in B-Flat Major02:56
- 9No. 9 in G-Sharp Minor03:58
- 10No. 10 in B Major03:45
- 11No. 11 in C Minor03:58
- 12No. 12 in E-Flat Major04:27
- 13No. 13, Free01:57
- 14No. 14 in F-Sharp Major05:33
- 15No. 15 in E-Flat Minor02:29
- 16No. 16 in G Major03:52
- 17No. 17 in E Minor01:38
- 18No. 18 in A Major02:39
- 19No. 19 in F-Sharp Minor03:19
- 20No. 20 in C Major01:56
- 21No. 21 in A Minor02:49
- 22No. 22 in E Major02:12
- 23No. 23 in C-Sharp Minor02:29
- 24No. 24 in B-Flat Minor03:02
- 25No. 25 in D-Flat Major06:45
Info for Michael Brough: 25 Picture-Preludes, Op. 19
The English composer Michael Brough (born in Yorkshire, in northern England, in 1960) is rather an unusual character: he is also a full-time solicitor. Late in 2013, with a commission from the Swaledale Festival, he sat down at his piano sat down at his piano and began to improvise the first of what would become 25 Picture-Preludes, in the major and minor keys. Like Rachmaninov's Etudes-Tableaux and Medtner's Skazki, these short pieces are intended to stimulate a response in the listener's imagination. Rachmaninov and Medtner are audible influences on Brough's bluesy, late-Romantic musical language. This recording was made on the ‘Bosendorfer 290', a piano with an extended range in the bass.
Michael Brough, piano
Michael Brough
is a Yorkshire pianist, organist and composer who moonlights as a lawyer during the day. He has written about a hundred songs, mainly to German texts but including a very raucous duet setting of Bacchus and the Pirates (Alfred Noyes); chamber works including a half-hour bass clarinet sonata; and choral, organ and piano music. He has been a commissioned writer at the Swaledale Festival for several years.