Judith Bingham : Piano Music : Judith Bingham : Musique pour piano

Piano International (Nov, 2013)
In her booklet note, Bingham states that ‘the piano is a difficult instrument that poses some problems for the composer’, needing ‘a fine player to produce a range of colour, and that also depends on the instrument’. If that seems an unpromising perception for a composer of piano pieces, it has – paradoxically – fired her imagination, the seven works on this disc tantamount to a rediscovering of the piano as a vehicle for compositional thought.

They range from Chopin (1979), a somewhat Lisztian evocation of one of her musical idols, to the coruscating Byron, Violent Progress (2008), based on her setting of She Walks in Beauty like the Night, …