Oxymorons - 24 Preludes (1993)
Автор: David Earl– pianist & composer
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Like the literary oxymoron, in which contradictory ideas are meaningfully associated, these Preludes, written in the early 1990s, were oxymorons in relation to much of what, in ‘serious music’ terms, was considered acceptable then and in the preceding decades. In recent times however, the pendulum has swung back again, and tonal music is no longer thought of, academically, as outmoded or passé. Schoenberg’s dictum - “a great deal of music remains to be written in the key of C major” - still stands.
The pieces are miniature tone poems reflecting friends and places I encountered during the years I lived in the Oxford home of my old school friend Kevan Martin, to whom the whole work is dedicated.
The order is the same as those by Chopin, Scriabin, Shostakovitch and others. Beginning in C, each major prelude is followed by its relative minor, then moves up the interval of a fifth through all the keys, eventually reaching F major and D minor.
No 1 C major Molto energico 00:08
No 2 A minor Lento lugubre 01:35
No 3 G major Allegretto 04:29
No 4 E minor Lento sostenuto 05:59
No 5 D major Presto 07:11
No 6 B minor Alla marcia quasi funebre 08:19
No 7 A major Vivace 10:20
No 8 F sharp minor Allegro risoluto 11:37
No 9 E major Molto lento 13:31
No 10 C sharp minor Andante poco lento 15:21
No 11 B major Allegretto 17:09
No 12 G sharp minor Lento melancolico 18:49
No 13 G flat major Allegro veloce 21:15
No 14 E flat minor Lento ruminato 22:12
No 15 D flat major Lento elegiaco 23:32
No 16 B flat minor Tempo di valse 29:31
No 17 A flat major Amabile 30:51
No 18 F minor Allegro tempestuoso 33:48
No 19 E flat major Languoroso con amore 35:58
No 20 C minor Adagio 39:11
No 21 B flat major Allegro 41:45
No 22 G minor Con moto 43:08
No 23 F major Andante maestoso 44:51
No 24 D minor Andante misterioso 47:09
David Earl
Recorded in the Fazioli Concert Hall, Sacile, Italy on 5th November 2025.
Production:
Federico Furlanetto and Fabio Polo
HvF Studio
Casrsa (PN) - Italy
[email protected]
Find out more at https://davidearlmusic.net/
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