MUSIC John Woolrich: Pianobooks I-VII Almeida Opera, London

From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: July 4, 1997| Author: | Copyright information

John Woolrich has written concertos and an opera, but his heart belongs with the miniature. The suite-like forms of his chamber pieces point this way, and his seven Pianobooks confirm it. In his larger scores, he uses spans of melody to hold the unfolding structure like the cables of a suspension bridge. The smaller pieces, by contrast, seem hardly melodic at all. They have a lyric essence yet withhold the lyrical act. They are miniatures without a trace of epigram.

Whether you've struggled with Beethoven's Fur Elise or bathed in the silvery light of Debussy's Clair de lune, this might seem ...

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