Tags: British  classical  piano  
Channel: Music
Uploaded: July 6, 2008 at 10:41 pm
Author: PSearPianist
Length: 02:25
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Alec Rowley (1892-1958) - who died while playing tennis - is best known today for his educational pieces and songs. His piano music is stylistically similar to that of York Bowen and John Ireland, but also sows similar expressionist tendencies to the later works of Frank Bridge and John Heath. Rowley wrote five nocturnes, the first two of which were published in 1932 and the last three in 1947. The first Nocturne seems to me dominated by evocations of bells of different types, some explicitly marked as such by the composer.--------------------- ---------------Played by Phillip Sear http://www.psear.co.uk