Lockdown Blues Peter Dickinson

• Peter Dickinson (b. 1934):
• 1 Dickinson: Freda's Blues 02:48
• Edward MacDowell (1860 - 1908):
• 2 MacDowell: Woodland Sketches, Op. 51: No. 1, To a Wild Rose 01:15
• Peter Dickinson:
• 3 Dickinson: Blue Rose 02:17
• Constant Lambert (1905 - 1951):
• 4 Lambert: Elegiac Blues 02:45
• Peter Dickinson:
• 5 Dickinson: Lockdown Blues 02:41
• Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963):
• 6 Poulenc: 8 Nocturnes, FP 56: No. 4, Bal fantôme. Lent, très las et piano 01:21
• Samuel Barber (1910 - 1981):
• 7 Barber: Canzonetta, Op. 48 (Arr. P. Dickinson for Piano Solo) 05:31
• Lennox Berkeley (1903 - 1981):
• 8 Berkeley: 6 Preludes, Op. 23: No. 6, Andante 01:45
• George Gershwin (1898 - 1937):
• 9 Gershwin: Three-Quarter Blues (From "After Henry") 01:04
• Francis Poulenc:
• 10 Poulenc: L'éventail de Jeanne: No. 8, Pastourelle, FP 45b 02:21
• Erik Satie (1866 - 1925): 3 Gnossiennes:
• 11 Satie: 3 Gnossiennes: No. 1, Lent 02:47
• 12 Satie: 3 Gnossiennes: No. 2, Avec étonnement 01:46
• 13 Satie: 3 Gnossiennes: No. 3, Lent 02:18
• George Gershwin:
• 14 Gershwin: Who Cares? (From "Of Thee I Sing") [Arr. for Piano Solo] 01:16
• Sir Eugene Goossens (1893 - 1962):
• 15 Goossens: Kaleidoscope, Op. 18: No. 10, Lament to a Departed Doll 01:13
• Erik Satie: 3 Gymnopédies:
• 16 Satie: 3 Gymnopédies: No. 1, Lent et douloureux 02:27
• 17 Satie: 3 Gymnopédies: No. 2, Lent et triste 02:05
• 18 Satie: 3 Gymnopédies: No. 3, Lent et grave 01:55
• Duke Ellington (1899 - 1974):
• 19 Ellington: It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) [Arr. P. Dickinson for Piano Solo] 00:46
• 20 Ellington: (In My) Solitude [Arr. P. Dickinson for Piano Solo] 01:32
• 21 Ellington: Don't Get Around Much Anymore (Arr. P. Dickinson for Piano Solo) 01:23
• 22 Tizol, Singer, Ellington: Lost in Meditation (Arr. P. Dickinson for Piano Solo) 01:28
• 23 Ellington: I Never Felt This Way Before (Arr. P. Dickinson for Piano Solo) 01:22
• 24 Ellington: Sophisticated Lady (Arr. P. Dickinson for Piano Solo) 02:04
• 25 Ellington: In a Sentimental Mood (Arr. P. Dickinson for Piano Solo) 02:02
• 26 Ellington: Azure (Arr. P. Dickinson for Piano Solo) 02:31
• 27 Ellington: Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me (Arr. P. Dickinson for Piano Solo) 01:40
• 28 Bigard, Ellington: Mood Indigo (Arr. P. Dickinson for Piano Solo) 01:41
• 29 Strayhorn, Ellington: Day Dream (Arr. P. Dickinson for Piano Solo) 01:53
• 30 Ellington: Prelude to a Kiss (Arr. P. Dickinson for Piano Solo) 02:08
• John Cage (1912 - 1992):
• 31 Cage: In a Landscape 07:38
• Total Runtime 01:07:43

Info for Lockdown Blues

"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. 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’."

Peter Dickinson, piano

Peter Dickinson
is a British composer, writer and pianist of the senior generation. His music has been written for some of the leading international performers and is well represented on CD. There are four CDs on Albany: Piano Concerto/Outcry/Organ Concerto; Songcycles; Rags, Blues & Parodies; and Pianos, Voices and Brass. Three CDs on Naxos: Complete Solo Organ Works and Mass of the Apocalypse/Larkin’s Jazz/Five Forgeries etc. These were followed by Piano Music performed by the composer; reissues of American Song and British Song, both on Heritage with Meriel Dickinson, the composer's sister; a recital with Ralph Holmes; Blue Clavichord; and a historic recording of his musical drama with Thomas Blackburn, The Judas Tree, released in 2014 - all on Heritage. Three Concertos and Merseyside Echoes followed and then seven Orchestral Works in 2016, launched in London along with the book of over fifty years of writings, Peter Dickinson: Words and Music, with an Introduction by Stephen Banfield and a memoir by Meriel Dickinson. Translations, early chamber music, was released on Prima Facie in 2018: a further CD of Chamber and Instrumental Music, again mostly first recordings, appeared on Toccata in 2020.

Dickinson's 75th birthday in 2009 was marked by performances including the Blue Rose Variations for organ in the BBC Proms, played by David Titterington; Tiananmen 1989 for double choir and tubular bells, sung by Commotio under Matthew Berry in Oxford; the American Trio played by the Zalas Trio at the Wigmore Hall; Jennifer Bate played several organ pieces at the Fourth Annual Festival of New Organ Music and she has recorded his complete solo organ works - see her article about Dickinson's organ music in The Organ (Spring 2018).

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