Benjamin Lees: Piano Music, 1947-2005

Benjamin Lees: Piano Music
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Catalogue No: TOCC0069
EAN/UPC: 5060113440693
Release Date: 05.05.2008
Composer: Benjamin Lees
Artists: Mirian Conti

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Benjamin Lees (1924–2010) was one of the senior figures in American music, with a large catalogue of powerful and inventive music to his credit. The works on this CD span almost sixty years of compositional activity but are unified by a number of consistent stylistic features: a wiry and muscular athleticism with its distant roots in Prokofiev and Bartók, a quasi-Impressionist awareness of piano sonority, a tough, no-nonsense sense of humour and an exhilarating onward drive.

Mirian Conti, piano

Listen To This Recording:

  1. Toccata (1947)

    2. Six Ornamental Etudes (1957)

  2. No. 1
  3. No. 2
  4. No. 3
  5. No. 4
  6. No. 5
  7. No. 6

    8. Three Preludes (1962)

  8. No. 1
  9. No. 2
  10. No. 3
  11. Sonata Breve (1956)

    12. Odyssey Nos 1–3 (1971, 1986, 2005)

  12. No. 1
  13. No. 2
  14. No. 3

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2 reviews for Benjamin Lees: Piano Music, 1947-2005

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    “torrential power … Lees engages a dark and fantastic imagination” —Rob Barnett, MusicWeb International

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    “…for those with an interest in this area, Toccata Classics’ Benjamin Lees: Piano Music 1947-2005 will prove essential. Conti’s performance is dedicated and authoritative, and Toccata Classics’ recording is stunningly realistic.” —Uncle Dave Lewis, AllMusic

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