Michael Brough: 25 Picture-Preludes, Op. 19 Michael Brough

• Michael Brough: 25 Picture-Preludes, Op. 19:
• 1 No. 1 in B Minor 01:43
• 2 No. 2 in D Major 03:02
• 3 No. 3 in F Major 02:01
• 4 No. 4 in D Minor 02:37
• 5 No. 5 in F Minor 03:36
• 6 No. 6 in A-Flat Major 03:23
• 7 No. 7 in G Minor 03:43
• 8 No. 8 in B-Flat Major 02:56
• 9 No. 9 in G-Sharp Minor 03:58
• 10 No. 10 in B Major 03:45
• 11 No. 11 in C Minor 03:58
• 12 No. 12 in E-Flat Major 04:27
• 13 No. 13, Free 01:57
• 14 No. 14 in F-Sharp Major 05:33
• 15 No. 15 in E-Flat Minor 02:29
• 16 No. 16 in G Major 03:52
• 17 No. 17 in E Minor 01:38
• 18 No. 18 in A Major 02:39
• 19 No. 19 in F-Sharp Minor 03:19
• 20 No. 20 in C Major 01:56
• 21 No. 21 in A Minor 02:49
• 22 No. 22 in E Major 02:12
• 23 No. 23 in C-Sharp Minor 02:29
• 24 No. 24 in B-Flat Minor 03:02
• 25 No. 25 in D-Flat Major 06:45
• Total Runtime 01:19:49

Info for Michael Brough: 25 Picture-Preludes, Op. 19

The English composer Michael Brough (born in Yorkshire, in northern England, in 1960) is rather an unusual character: he is also a full-time solicitor. Late in 2013, with a commission from the Swaledale Festival, he sat down at his piano sat down at his piano and began to improvise the first of what would become 25 Picture-Preludes, in the major and minor keys. Like Rachmaninov's Etudes-Tableaux and Medtner's Skazki, these short pieces are intended to stimulate a response in the listener's imagination. Rachmaninov and Medtner are audible influences on Brough's bluesy, late-Romantic musical language. This recording was made on the ‘Bosendorfer 290', a piano with an extended range in the bass.

Michael Brough, piano

Michael Brough
is a Yorkshire pianist, organist and composer who moonlights as a lawyer during the day. He has written about a hundred songs, mainly to German texts but including a very raucous duet setting of Bacchus and the Pirates (Alfred Noyes); chamber works including a half-hour bass clarinet sonata; and choral, organ and piano music. He has been a commissioned writer at the Swaledale Festival for several years.

Booklet for Michael Brough: 25 Picture-Preludes, Op. 19