Judith Bingham: Piano Music
Judith Bingham (born in Nottingham in 1952 and London-based since 1970) spent several years as a member of the BBC Singers, which may help explain the lyricism of her music. But the works on this CD also reveals her strong response to poetry and to place, a keen instinct for drama, an ear for keyboard colour and a Busonian sense of space and atmosphere.
David Jones, piano
Listen To This Recording:
- The Moon over Westminster Cathedral (2003)
- Limehouse Nocturne (2004)
- Movement One
Theme (♩ = 93) - Variation 1
- Variation 2
- Variation 3
- Variation 4
- Movement Two (♩. = 81)
Variation 5 - Variation 6
- Variation 7
- Variation 8
- Movement Three (♩. = 63)
Variation 9 - Variation 10
- Variation 11
- Variation 12
- Variation 13
- I. The Christmas Tree (minim = 60)
- II. Christmas Eve (♩ = 116)
- III. Giving (♩ = 60)
- IV. Christmas Past (♩. = 120)
- Chopin (1979)
- Annunciation II (2010)
- I. 2011; with tremendous energy
- II. 77:98; with a dreamy melancholy
- III. 06: MDC; very sombre and plain
- IV. 92; (♩ = 104)
Byron, Violent Progress (2008)
Christmas Past, Christmas Present (1989)
Pictured Within (1981)
Fanfare Magazine :
‘Judith Bingham is a highly imaginative composer who, on the evidence of the booklet notes of the current release, writes eloquently on her own music. The recording (made at The Venue, Leeds, October 2009) is wonderfully present. It [The Moon over Westminster Cathedral] is a touchingly atmospheric piece , almost but not quite Impressionist. David Jones’s playing here is marvelously sensitive, as it is throughout the recital.’
—Colin Clark, Fanfare Magazine