Product Description
This piece
is the penultimate number in the collection: Five Longer Piano Pieces.
Duration: 5 minutes.
Difficulty:
Intermediate (Grade 3)
Appropriate for schools and students.
Charles McCreerys beautifully melodic, intricately
textured compositions are infused with classical, romantic and folk idioms. -
Samantha Gillogly, violinist
Charles
McCreery was educated at Eton and New College,
Oxford.
While at Eton he
won the Rowe Cup for junior pianists, and in his final year performed Weber's Konzertstück with a chamber orchestra.
As an
undergraduate he studied piano with Hilda Bor, and won a piano class,
adjudicated by Herbert Howells, at the Willesden Music Festival.
From 1988 to
1991 he held a Perrott Warrick Studentship from Trinity College, Cambridge, and
he has a doctorate from Oxford University.
From 1996 to
2000 he was a College Lecturer at Magdalen College, Oxford.
In 1996 Charles
McCreery's 'Elegy for Violin and Piano' was shortlisted for the Match
Composition Prize.
A comment on Charles McCreerys collection of
Tolkien songs:
For those who only know Tolkien via the recent
blood-and-thunder films, this song-cycle by Charles McCreery will give a very
different angle on the classic saga. Here we find a gentle and ethereal world,
where rhythms lilt and words echo. The twelve songs, suitable for choir, evoke
a dreamy, water-colour landscape with no harsh sounds, the tunes are singable
and in a traditional style that Tolkien would surely have approved. - Dr Julia
Gasper, LGSM
A bound and
illustrated vocal score (voice parts with piano accompaniment) of the complete
set of his Fourteen Tolkien Songs for Childrens Voices is available from
Amazon:http://www.amazon.com/Fourteen-Tolkien-Songs-Childrens-Voices/dp/1492187534
A CD of twelve
of Charles McCreerys orchestral pieces can also be purchased from Amazon:http://www.amazon.com/Music-King-Eldred-opera-children/dp/B00LWEEMHA/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&......
Individual
tracks from the CD can be purchased here: https://stmaurmusic.bandcamp.com/
Charles McCreerys Social Media Channels:
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/charles.mccreery
https://www.facebook.com/St-Maur-Music-164619846916182/
https://www.facebook.com/Tolkien-Songs-for-Childrens-Voices-259698587390960/
Twitter:
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