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Howard Skempton - Well, Well, Cornelius - John Tilbury (1996)

Posted By: basa005

Date: 8 Jul 2011 13:10:07

Tracklist:
1. Well, Well, Cornelius
2. June '77
3. Trace
4. Air
5. Saltaire Melody
6. senza licenza
7. Invention
8. passing fancy, for piano
9. Sweet Chariot, for piano
10. Chorale
11. First Prelude
12. Piano Piece 1969
13. Rumba
14. Toccata
15. Quavers 5
16. A Roma
17. Of Late
18. Campanella 3
19. Campanella
20. Swedish Caprice
21. Quavers 3
22. una barcarola eccentrica
23-42. Images
43. The Durham Strike
44. Postlude

Howard Skempton (composer)
John Tilbury (piano)

Howard Skempton's musical language has discovered a beauty, a simplicity, but one that engages a large pallette of sound imagination, in that these various pieces always evoke always suggest different images. His compositions are minimal in a minimal way, meaning every note is painstakingly thought about, its placement, its conception where it sits on the piano,its register, its timbre,its length. For his piano music here, he relies almost exclusively on the rolled arpeggiated sonority, yet he finds himself there,by breaking a familiar pattern,adding a low tone outside the middle register thereby disrupting the melodic contour then nothing ever grows stale. Skempton knows how to manipulate time, and when his work is over, it never overspends itself within its durational frame. The various "Preludes" here are all the same gesture, broken chords, very gentle and disarming in a three-eight meter until the "Fifth Prelude" where a five-eight takes over with a jewel-like B-flat placed. Then not until the "Seventh Prelude" is the proceedings altered to a fanfare-like six-sixteenth,sometimes collecting a interval of a third or fifth to alter the sonority minimally. The static quality of the "preludes" I suspect are an aesthetic plan to interject the freer "interludes" which exhibit early Feldmanesque chords played indeterminately,not bound by a strict time sense, only that each chord is 2 seconds duration. This makes for a neat concise miniature dialogue. I don't ever envision playing the "preludes" consecutively, that would be taxing the frame,in that their static gesture doesn't travel well. Like seeing twins and determining what the nuance of facial differences exist,or discovering leaves which have an identical shape,something fractals have taught us. But then Skempton I suspect wanted to see how far he could push his creative frames in writing almost identical preludes thereby subverting their historical reference,as dramatically contrasting pieces as Chopin's or Debussy's celebrated sets.When Skempton does venture too close to tradition his imagination seems on hold,ot stymied. The "Variations" here are weak and labored,with chromatic movement which doesn't seem within the Skemptonian universe of gesture. "Postlude" subtitled "the keel row" is again a one-page short work and indeed the most beautiful piece here. His music is quite old,in that he has been writing music like this since the early Seventies. This music may remind you of the New Age music, with its incessant surface of artlessly conceived ways of extending a harmony,only with cascades of notes that are actually arbitrary. Skempton is the opposite in that he is a craftman and tone-painter, wanting the listener to engage within his beautiful music.
By Rachel Abbinanti

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