Tim Buckley - Work In Progress - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Philip Cannon's Concertino for piano and strings (1951) dates from his formative years. It was written for the Petersfield Festival, where it was premiered on 27 January 1951 by soloist Joseph Cooper, with the Petersfield Orchestra conducted by Kathleen Merritt. This lively, neo-classical piece has achieved over a thousand performances internationally. Though John Addison's Concertino for piano and orchestra is, for the most part, couched in a light-hearted language, it is the product of a serious, and unfailingly inventive, approach to keyboard and orchestral writing. Speaking of the work to Lesie Ayre of the London Evening News, the composer remarked that, 'it is a real concerto in the full sense of the word I would not be ashamed to show the work to any first-class pianist'. Francis Chagrin maintained an intensely practical and unpretentious attitude towards his own craft, observing that, 'My music is not for first performances - it is just to be played'. His Piano Concerto was first performed by soloist Franz Osborn, with the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by the composer, at an SPNM Experimental Rehearsal held at the Royal College of Music on 4 February 1944. Conversation Piece by John Addison was written in 1958 to a commission from the BBC Concert Orchestra for that year's British Light Music Festival. John Addison felt that, by the late-1950s, too great a divide had opened up between serious and light music 'Concertgoers think contemporary music is so alarmingly serious that when confronted with a mildly witty turn of phrase, they assume something has gone wrong. I remember the astonished sigh of relief when, in the course of introducing one of my chamber works, I told the audience I would not mind if they smiled'. In Conversation Piece, Addison exploits to the full his talent to amuse and divert. Album Tracks 1. Concertino for piano and strings~I

Album Tracks 1. Today 2. Hide Away 3. People Like Us 4. You're Alive 5. Air 6. He Knows the Sun 7. Something Good 8. I Want to Be Like Everybody Else 9. Heaven Will Wait 10. So Much for Tomorrow 11. These Old Hearts of Ours 12. Do You Remember Riley

Digitally remastered edition. Released in May 1973, Sefronia was Tim Buckley's eighth album, his first on manager Herb Cohen's DiscReet tag, and followed the critically successful Greetings From LA. It features his studio version of Fred Neil's 'Dolphins', a song he had originally performed in London in 1968, captured on the Dream Letter live album. Also featured are three co-writes with his original collaborator Larry Beckett, and a cover of Tom Waits Martha'. The album has been remastered from the original tapes by Dave Schultz in 2017, and the booklet features the lyrics and new annotation. Album Tracks 1. Dolphins 2. Honey Man 3. Because of You 4. Peanut Man 5. Martha 6. Quicksand 7. I Know I'd Recognize Your Face 8. Stone in Love 9. Sefronia - After Asklopiades, Fater Kafka 10. Sefronia - the King's Chain 11. Sally Go 'Round the Roses