Imogen Cooper performs Britten's Night Piece (Notturno) in The Red House Library скачать в хорошем качестве

Imogen Cooper performs Britten's Night Piece (Notturno) in The Red House Library

Imogen Cooper playing Britten’s Night Piece (Notturno) in the Library at The Red House in October 2020. This is one of Britten’s rare solo piano pieces and was provided as a ‘test piece’ for the Leeds International Piano Competition. There is hardly any piano music in Britten’s mature catalogue and only one (other than Night Piece) that he published in his lifetime: Holiday Diary, op. 5 composed in 1934. Night Piece belongs to a group of pieces with a nocturnal theme that Britten composed shortly after moving to The Red House. Others include song cycle Nocturne, op. 60 (1958), the opera A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op. 64 (1960), and the guitar piece Nocturnal, after John Dowland, op. 70 (1963). Night Piece is published by Boosey & Hawkes. With grateful thanks to Imogen Cooper and to Boosey & Hawkes (A Concord Company).