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Set of Five (PFCD247) Double CD £15.00/£20.00
Daryl Runswick composer/piano, Keith Tippett piano, TCM Composers' Ensemble
CD 1
1. Spoken Introduction [1:37]2. No 1 [5:42]
3. No 2 [7:10]
4. No 4 [9:03]
5. No 3 [5:35]
6. No 5 [11:40]
CD 2
1. No 1 [8:03]2. No 2 [8:28]
3. No 3 [4:43]
4. No 4 [9:12]]
5. No 5 [13:10]
About this Album
This remarkable double album, featuring Keith Tippett, one of Britain’s – and indeed the world’s – greatest piano virtuosos, offers two astonishingly different performances of the same piece: Set of 5, Daryl Runswick’s aleatoric improvisation masterpiece. Ask yourself, can this be the same music? – and yet despite the differences – in lineup, in style, in approach – what we hear is recognisably the same work interpreted in fascinatingly contrasting ways.
Credits
CD1
TCM Composers' Ensemble:
Tarek Younis, voice
Reynaldo Young, guitar
Nikos Veliotis, cello
Danny Ledesma, piano
Daryl Runswick, pipes, children’s percussion
(London Borough of Marylebone, ambience)
World Premiere: live recording
Recorded at Hinde Street Church, Marylebone, 6.5.99
Recording engineer Kit Venables
Sonic rescue Phil Hardman
CD2
Keith Tippett and Daryl Runswick, 2 pianos
Recorded in live performance at Dartington Great Hall, 26.7.99
Recording engineer Mike Skeet
Sonic rescue Phil Hardman
You can read the sleevenotes from this album on the Prima Facie blog, Recitative
Daryl Runswick
Composer/performer Daryl Runswick (b. 1946) was educated at Cambridge University and Ronnie Scott’s Club. He spent his early career writing and performing jazz and pop; more recently concert pieces. He has also been involved with free improvisation and indeterminate music, one of the few (to quote John Wickes) who can claim to have worked with both Ornette Coleman and John Cage. This duality has permeated his career as an improvising pianist, singer with Electric Phoenix, bassplayer, arranger, record producer, broadcaster, educator, community animateur and film/TV composer. Head of Composition at Trinity College of Music in London for 10 years before retiring, he has searched for a synthesis of the improvising skills of jazz with the more complex structures of concert music.