Perle/Del Tredici/Thorne: Piano Works
Liner Notes   Cat. No. 80380     Release Date: 1989-01-01

Michael Boriskin, piano

The vastly divergent reactions to twelve-tone composition of George Perle, David Del Tredici and Nicholas Thorne are a vivid reflection not only of their different generations, but of the unfolding of musical style change in America. Perle, born in 1915 and educated here at a time when twelve-tone composition was little understood, felt the urge to revise Schoenberg's method so as to reconcile serial chromaticism with the hierarchical elements of tonal practice. The system he evolved, known as “twelve-tone tonality,” has been the basis of most of his compositions until 1969, and all since.

Del Tredici, born in 1937, studied at Princeton at a time when serialism had become dogma. Yet he eventually repudiated the technique and turned to a highly eccentric form of tonality.

Thorne, born in 1953, gave little thought to twelve-tone composition. “It was the generation before me who had this monkey on its back,” he says. Instead, Thorne came to maturity amid the welter of styles, from minimalism to neo-Romanticism, that characterized America during the 1970s. All three attitudes offer us invaluable insights into the composers and their music.

Michael Boriskin

Perle/Del Tredici/Thorne: Piano Works

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Track Listing

Soliloquy
David Del Tredici
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Sonatina: I. Allegretto
George Perle
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Sonatina: II. Molto adagio
George Perle
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Sonatina: III. Allegro
George Perle
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Three Love Songs: I. Searing, pointed lyricism. With great intensity
Nicholas Thorne
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Three Love Songs: II. Gently, with flow
Nicholas Thorne
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Three Love Songs: III. Hallowed, rarified. From the spirit
Nicholas Thorne
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Virtuoso Alice
David Del Tredici
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Lyric Intermezzo: I. Andante
George Perle
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Lyric Intermezzo: II. Grazioso
George Perle
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Lyric Intermezzo: III. Rondoletto
George Perle
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Lyric Intermezzo: IV. Fantasy variations
George Perle
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Lyric Intermezzo: V. Postlude
George Perle
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Piano Sonata (In one movement)
Nicholas Thorne
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