Collected Piano Pieces: 55 Pieces Including Well, Well,

Featuring fifty-five short pieces, the earliest of which dates from 1967, the most recent from 1993. This title provides an overview of the keyboard music of one of Britain's most original and fascinating composers. Review: Skempton's harmony is nothing if not explicit, and precise, and he wrings maximum effect from a pared minimum of matter. This music is Irreduciblist. The pieces contain nothing they do not need, and nothing could be subtracted without loss. There's no rhetoric, no bravura display, no smokescreen of Postmodern irony, no false naivety. Skempton composes essences, and they go straight to the heart. Tempo Table of Contents: Air; Beginner; Campanella; Campanella 3; Campanella 4; Chorale; Colonnade; The Durham Strike; Eirenicon; Eirenicon 2; Eirenicon 3; Eirenicon 4; Even Tenor; First Prelude; Friday's Child; A Humming Song; Intermezzo; Invention; June 77; Maestoso; Memento; The Mold Riots; Of Late; One for Martha; One for Molly; passing fancy; Piano Piece 1969; Piano Piece for Trevor Clarke; Postlude; Quavers; Quavers 2; Quavers 3; Quavers 5; Resolution; Riding the Thermals; Ring in the Valiant; Rumba; Saltaire Melody; Seascape; Second Gentle Melody; senza licenza; September Song; Simple Piano Piece; Slow Waltz; Surface Tension 3; Swedish Caprice; Sweet Chariot; Tender Melody; Toccata; Trace; Two Highland Dances; una barcarola eccentrica; Well, well, Cornelius