Artist: Christopher Guild

Title: Complete Music for Solo Piano

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Format: CD

Release Date: 2023

Label: Toccata

UPC: 5060113446978

Genre: Classical Artists

Album Tracks

1. I. Maestoso - Allegro Deciso [13:21]
2. II. Largamente E Calmato [06:13]
3. III. Allegro Molto - Poco Adagio - Tempo I [07:30]
4. No. 1. Prelude [04:40]
5. No. 2. Scherzo [02:04]
6. No. 3. Rhapsody [03:51]
7. I. Prelude [04:35]
8. II. Scherzo [01:34]
9. III. Nocturne [04:58]
10. IV. Fughetta [02:11]
11. Ballade, Op. 41 [07:55]
12. A Tale from Long Ago [01:48]
13. March of the Giants [01:16]
14. Ding Dong Bell [01:19]
15. Snowflakes [01:38]
16. Fireside Story [02:28]
17. Bedtime (Six O'Clock) [01:13]
18. Bedtime Story [01:25]
19. Hornpipe [01:03]
20. Valediction, Op. 82 [10:00

He reputation of the Anglo-Scottish composer William Wordsworth (1908-88), great-great-grandnephew of the poet, has recently been restored by a series of Toccata Classics albums of his orchestral music. His piano music, too, was poorly known before now, none of it recorded since a handful of pieces appeared on LP 60 years ago - though his epic Piano Sonata is a work of major importance. This first ever complete recording reveals an honest, unfussy approach to the keyboard akin to that of two other major symphonists, Sibelius and Rubbra: like them, Wordsworth's primary concern seems to have been the expression of deep feeling - which makes the gentle story-telling of his miniatures for children all the more surprising.