Catalogue

Summary:

Award-winning Irish pianist David Quigley, heralded by The Birmingham Post as a musician of “amazing maturity and concentration”, makes his AVIE label debut with a stunning and beautiful recital that takes the listener on a moonlit journey of the solo piano nocturne, beginning and ending with Quigley’s compatriot and the genre’s originator, John Field, and traversing the highways and byways of interpretations by composers through the centuries, from Chopin to Schumann, Liszt to Lowell Liebermann and many more in between.

Tracklist:

JOHN FIELD (1782–1837)
1. Nocturne No. 5 in B-flat, H37 (3.15)

FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN (1810–1849)
2. Nocturne in E-flat, Op. 55, No. 2 (5.14)

PYOTR ILLYCH TCHAIKOVSKY (1840–1893)
3. Nocturne, Op. 19, No. 4 (3.51)

CLARA SCHUMANN (1819–1896)
4. Notturno, Op. 6, No. 2 (4.51)

FRANK LISZT (1811–1886)
5. Les Cloches des Genève (7.28)

EDVARD GRIEG (1843–1907)
6. Nocturne, Op. 54, No. 4 (4.04)

CLAUDE DEBUSSY (1862–1918)
7. Nocturne, L89 (6.16)

OTTORINO RESPIGHI (1879–1936)
8. Notturno (4.42)

PHILIP MARTIN (b. 1947)
9. Oiche Ceoil (Night Music for the Left Hand) (5.48)

LOWELL LIEBERMANN (b. 1961)
10. Nocturne No. 2, Op. 31 (7.41)

PHILIP HAMMOND (b. 1951)
11. Is Im Bo agus Eiriu (Nocturne) (6.39)

FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN (1810–1849)
12. Nocturne in D-flat, Op. 27, No. 2 (6.37)

JOHN FIELD (1782–1837)
13. Nocturne No. 10 in E minor, H54 (3.38)

Total time: 70.04

Recorded 20 – 21 October 2017, Elgar Concert Hall, The Bramall, University of Birmingham, UK
Producer: Les Pratt
Sound engineer: Tony Wass
Post production: David Marshalsea