Judith Bingham: Piano Music

Catalogue No: TOCC0181
EAN/UPC: 5060113441812
Release Date: 2013-06-03
Composer: Judith Bingham
Artists: David Jones

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:

  1. The Moon over Westminster Cathedral (2003)
  2. Limehouse Nocturne (2004)
  3. Byron, Violent Progress (2008)

  4. Movement One
    Theme (♩ = 93)
  5. Variation 1
  6. Variation 2
  7. Variation 3
  8. Variation 4
  9. Movement Two (♩. = 81)
    Variation 5
  10. Variation 6
  11. Variation 7
  12. Variation 8
  13. Movement Three (&#x2669. = 63)
    Variation 9
  14. Variation 10
  15. Variation 11
  16. Variation 12
  17. Variation 13
  18. Christmas Past, Christmas Present (1989)

  19. I. The Christmas Tree (minim = 60)
  20. II. Christmas Eve (♩ = 116)
  21. III. Giving (♩ = 60)
  22. IV. Christmas Past (♩. = 120)
  23. Chopin (1979)
  24. Annunciation II (2010)
  25. Pictured Within (1981)

  26. I. 2011; with tremendous energy
  27. II. 77:98; with a dreamy melancholy
  28. III. 06: MDC; very sombre and plain
  29. IV. 92; (♩ = 104)

1 review for Judith Bingham: Piano Music

  1. :

    ‘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

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