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John McCabe piano discography - solo recordings

John McCabe piano discography - solo recordings

Piano discography

Solo Recordings

 

ADAMS
Phrygian Gates
    
 [+Bennett, Carter, Copland, Previn, Rochberg]
     (2CD) Continuum CCD 1028/9
     Album: Transatlantic Piano
     Published 1991

BAX
Sonata in E flat (original version of Symphony No 1); Sonata No 2 in G; Legend

 
   (CD) Continuum CCD 1045
     Published 1992

Sonata No 4 in G: Allegretto quasi andante
 
    [+ Holst, Ireland, Moeran, Vaughan Williams, Warlock]
     (LP) Decca SDD 444
     Album: Pastorale
     Published 1974

     [+ Britten/Holst/Ireland/Joubert/Moeran/Vaughan Williams/Warlock]
     (CD) British Music Society BMS103CDH
     Album: An English Recital [all reissues]

BEARDSLEY, CHRISTOPHER
Stars in a Dark Night (Diptych, No 1)

     [+ Ellis, Forshaw, Golightly, Pitfield, Rawsthorne, JR Williamson]
     (CD) ASC Classical Series CS CD3
    Album: Contemporary British Piano Music [NWCA disc]
     Published 1998

BENNETT
Noctuary

  
   [+ Adams, Carter, Copland, Previn, Rochberg]
     (2CD) Continuum CCD 1028/9
     Published 1991
     Album: Transatlantic Piano

BRAHMS
Variations and Fugue on a theme of Handel, Op 24; Three Intermezzi, Op 117; Four Pieces, Op 119

     
Oryx (LP) BRL 78 / (Cassette) BRL 78
     Recorded 1972

BRIDGE
Heart's Ease (Three Lyrics, No. 1)

     [+ Casken/Howard/McCabe/Ravel/Schubert]
     (CD) Toccata Classics TOCC 0139
     Published 2011
     Album: John McCabe Farewell Recital

BRITTEN
Notturno (Night Piece) (1963)

  
   [+ Copland, McCabe, Nielsen, Rawsthorne, Schönberg, Webern]
     (LP) Pye GSGC 14116 Published 1969
     Reissued: PRT (LP) GSGC 2069 / (Cassette) ZCGC 2069
     Reissued 1983
     Album: Twentieth-Century Piano Music

     [+ Bax/Holst/Ireland/Joubert/Moeran/Vaughan Williams/Warlock]
     (CD) British Music Society BMS103CDH
     Album: An English Recital [all reissues]

CARTER
Sonata (1945-6)

     [+ Adams, Bennett, Copland, Previn, Rochberg]
     (2CD) Continuum  CCD 1028/9
     Published 1991
     Album: Transatlantic Piano

CASKEN, JOHN
The Haunting Bough

     [+ Bridge/Howard/McCabe/Ravel/Schubert]
     (CD) Toccata Classics TOCC 0139
     Published 2011
     Album: John McCabe Farewell Recital  

CLEMENTI
Sonata in D, Op 40, No 3; Sonata in F, Op 33, No 2; Sonata in G minor, Op 50, No 3 (Didone Abbandonata); 3 Monferrine, Op 49, Nos 3, 4, 12

     (LP) Hyperion A66057
     Published 1982

COPLAND
Sonata (1939-41)

     [+ Adams, Bennett, Carter, Previn, Rochberg]
     (2CD) Continuum CCD 1028/9
     Published 1991
     Album: Transatlantic Piano

Variations (1930)
   
  [+ Britten, McCabe, Nielsen, Rawsthorne, Schönberg, Webern]
     (LP) Pye GSGC 14116
     Published 1969
     Reissued: PRT (LP) GSGC 2069 / (Cassette) ZCGC 2069
     Reissued 1983
     Album: Twentieth-Century Piano Music

ELGAR
Adieu; Chantant; Concert Allegro; Griffinesque; In Smyrna; May Song; Minuet; Serenade; Skizze; Sonatina

  
   (LP) Prelude PRS 2503
     Published 1976

ELLIS, DAVID
Piano Sonata No 1

  
   [+ Beardsley, Forshaw, Golightly, Pitfield, Rawsthorne, JR Williamson]
     (CD) ASC Classical Series CS CD3
    Album: Contemporary British Piano Music [NWCA disc]
     Published 1998

FORSHAW, DAVID
4 Pieces after Charles Messier

 
    [+ Beardsley, Ellis, Golightly, Pitfield, Rawsthorne, JR Williamson]
     (CD) ASC Classical Series CS CD3
    Album: Contemporary British Piano Music [NWCA disc]
     Published 1998

GOLIGHTLY, DAVID
Piano Sonata

 
    [+ Beardsley, Ellis, Forshaw, Pitfield, Rawsthorne, JR Williamson]
     (CD) ASC Classical Series CS CD3
     Album: Contemporary British Piano Music [NWCA disc]
     Published 1998

GRIEG
Slåtter, Op 72; Stimmungen, Op 73

   
  RCA (LP) GL 25329 / (Cassette) GK 25329
     Published 1980
     Reissued 2015
     (CD) Somm Recordings SOMMCD 0154

Lyric Pieces, Op 43 (Complete); Lyric Pieces, Op 54, Nos 3, 4; Lyric Pieces, Op 65 (Complete); Lyric Pieces, Op 71, Nos 2, 3; Four Humoresques, Op 6
   
  Oryx (LP) BRL 97 / (Cassette) BRL 97
     Recorded 1972

HAYDN
Sonata in E flat, L62 (Hob 52); Sonata in G, L13 (Hob 6); Sonata in E, L15 (Hob 13)

   
  (LP) HMV HQS 1301
     Published 1973

COMPLETE SONATAS; PLUS
Adagio in F; Capriccio in G; Fantasia in C; Seven Last Words of the Redeemer on the Cross; 7 Minuets from "Kleine Tänze für die Jugend"; 20 Variations in A; 6 Variations in C; 5 Variations in D; 12 Variations in E flat; Andante con Variazioni in F minor

  
   (12CD) Decca/London 443 785-2
     Reissued 1995 as complete CD set, now in numerical order

Complete Sonatas (Landon numberings): Volume 1:
Sonata in C, L6; Sonata in C, L10; Sonata in E flat, L18; Sonata in B minor, L47; Sonata in D, L50; Sonata in G, L52; Sonata in C, L60 (English); Fantasia in C; Andante con Variazioni in F minor

   
  (3LP) Decca 1HDN 100/2
     Published 1975

Complete Sonatas (Landon numberings): Volume 2:
Sonata in D, L9; Sonata in E flat, L17; Sonata in A flat, L31; Sonata in C, L36; Sonata in E flat, L43; Sonata in A, L45; Sonata in E, L46; Sonata in C, L48; Sonata in G, L54; Sonata in B flat, L55; Sonata in D, L56; Variations in A

   
  (3LP) Decca 2HDN 103/5
     Published 1975

Complete Sonatas (Landon numberings): Volume 3:
Sonata in G, L1; Sonata in G, L4; Sonata in B flat, L20; Sonata in D, L30; Sonata in G minor, L32; Sonata in A flat, L35; Sonata in A, L41; Sonata in G, L42; Sonata in E minor, L53; Sonata in F, L57; Sonata in E flat, L59; Adagio in F; Variations in C

  
   (3LP) Decca 3HDN 106/8
     Published 1976

Complete Sonatas (Landon numberings): Volume 4:
Sonata in C, L2; Sonata in F, L3; Sonata in G, L5; Sonata in D, L7; Sonata in B flat, L11; Sonata in G, L13; Sonata in D, L16; Sonata in E minor/major, L19; Sonata in D, L34; Sonata in E flat, L40; Sonata in F, L44; Sonata in C# minor, L49; Sonata in E flat, L51; Sonata in C, L58; Capriccio in G

 
    (3LP) Decca 4HDN 109/11
     Published 1977

Complete Sonatas (Landon numberings): Volume 5:
Sonata in A, L8; Sonata in A, L12; Sonata in C, L14; Sonata in E, L15; Sonata in E flat, L29; Sonata in E, L37; Sonata in D, L61; Sonata in E flat, L62; Sonata in D, L28 (completed McCabe); Sonata in B flat (Hob 17 - now attributed to Schwanenberg); Sonata in E flat (Hob 16 - now attrib. unknown); Variations in E flat; Variations in D (attrib. Haydn); Seven Last Words of the Redeemer on the Cross; Seven Minuets from "Kleine Tänze für die Jugend" (Hob. IX/8 Nos 1,2,5,7,8,10,11)

     (4LP) Decca 5HDN 112/15
     Published 1977

Variations in D; Variations in A; Variations in C; Adagio in F; Fantasia in C; Capriccio in G; Seven Minuets
     (LP) Decca 6.42455AS [German compilation disc]
     Published 1977

Sonatas: in F, L3; in G minor, L32; in G, L42; L47; in E flat, L59
     (LP) Pye Not issued
     Recorded 1968

HINDEMITH
Ludus Tonalis; 1922 Suite

     (CD) Hyperion CDA66824
     Published 1996

HOLST
Nocturne; Jig; Two Folksong Fragments, Op 46 Nos 2, 3

     [+ Bax, Ireland, Moeran, Vaughan Williams, Warlock]
     (LP) Decca SDD 444
     Published 1974
     Album: Pastorale

     [+ Bax/Britten/Ireland/Joubert/Moeran/Vaughan Williams/Warlock]
     (CD) British Music Society BMS103CDH
     Album: An English Recital [all reissues]

HOWARD, EMILY
Sky and Water

     [+ Bridge/Casken/McCabe/Ravel/Schubert]
     (CD) Toccata Classics TOCC 0139
     Published 2011
     Album: John McCabe Farewell Recital

HOWELLS
Lambert's Clavichord; Howells' Clavichord

     (CD) Hyperion CDA66689
     Published 1994

     (CD) Hyperion Helios CDH55152
     Reissued 2005

IRELAND
Sonatina

     [+ Bax, Holst, Moeran, Vaughan Williams, Warlock]
     (LP) Decca SDD 444
     Published 1974
     Album: Pastorale

     [+ Bax/Britten/Holst/Ireland/Moeran/Vaughan Williams/Warlock]
     (CD) British Music Society BMS103CDH
     Album: An English Recital [all reissues]

JOUBERT
Sonata No 1, Op 24; Sonata No 2, Op 71; Dance Suite, Op 21

     (LP) Pearl SHE 520
     Published 1975
     Reissued: Maxsound (Cassette) MSCB 33
     Reissued 1986

Sonata No 1, Op 24; Sonata No 2, Op 71; Sonata No 3, Op 157
     (2CD) SommCD 060-2
     Published 2007
     Album: Joubert Chamber and Instrumental Music

Dance Suite, Op 21
     [+ Bax/Britten/Holst/Ireland/Moeran/Vaughan Williams/Warlock]
     (CD) British Music Society BMS103CDH
     Album: An English Recital [all reissues]

LAMBERT
Piano Sonata

 
    [+ other pianists: Bridge, Reizenstein]
     (CD) Continuum CCD 1040
     Published 1992
     Album: Best of British Piano

McCABE
Five Bagatelles (1964)

     [+ Britten, Copland, Nielsen, Rawsthorne, Schönberg, Webern]
     (LP) Pye GSGC 14116
     Published 1969
     Reissued: PRT (LP) GSGC 2069 / (Cassette) ZCGC 2069
     Reissued 1983
     Album: Twentieth-Century Piano Music

Variations (1963); Fantasy on a theme of Liszt (1967); Capriccio (Study No 1) (1969); Sostenuto (Study No 2) (1969); Gaudí (Study No 3) (1970); Aubade (Study No 4) (1970)
     (LP) RCA RL 25076
     Published 1977
Fantasy on a theme of Liszt (1967); Capriccio (Study No 1) (1969); Sostenuto (Study No 2) (1969)
     [+ Symphony No 1 'Elegy' (1965); Tuning (1985)]
     Reissued 2015
     (CD) Naxos 8.571370

Haydn Variations; Variations (1963); Gaudí (Study No 3); Aubade (Study No 4);
Mosaic (Study No 6); Five Bagatelles

 
    (CD) British Music Society BMS424CD
     Published 1999
     Reissued 2015
     (CD) Naxos 8.571367

Piano Concerto No 1
    
with BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Christopher Austin
     [+ Ballet Suite No 1: Arthur Pendragon; Pilgrim for double string orchestra]
     (CD) Dutton Epoch CDLX 7179
     Published 2006

Tenebrae 
 
    [+ Bridge/Casken/Howard/Ravel/Schubert]
     (CD) Toccata Classics TOCC 0139
     Published 2011
     Album: John McCabe Farewell Recital

MOERAN
Bank Holiday

     [+ Bax, Holst, Ireland, Vaughan Williams, Warlock]
     (LP) Decca SDD 444
     Published 1974
     Album: Pastorale

     [+ Bax/Britten/Holst/Ireland/Joubert/Vaughan Williams/Warlock]
     (CD) British Music Society BMS103CDH
     Album: An English Recital [all reissues]

MOZART
Sonata in A minor, K310; Sonata in F, K533/494; Sonata in C, K545

 
    Oryx (LP) BRL 27 / (Cassette) BRL 27
     Recorded 1972

Fantasia in C, K395; Fantasia in C minor, K 396; Fantasia in D minor, K 397; Rondo in D, K485; Rondo in A minor, K511; Andante in F, K616; Allegro (Sonata movement) in G minor, K312; March in C, K408; Marche funèbre in C minor, K 453a; Gigue in G, K574; Minuet in D, K355; Adagio in B minor, K540
     Oryx (LP) BRL 28 / (Cassette) BRL 28
     Recorded 1972

NIELSEN
Chaconne, Op 32

     [+ Britten, Copland, McCabe, Rawsthorne, Schönberg, Webern]
     (LP) Pye GSGC 14116
     Published 1969
     Reissued: PRT (LP) GSGC 2069 / (Cassette) ZCGC 2069
     Reissued 1983
     Album: Twentieth-Century Piano Music

COMPLETE PIANO MUSIC
Festival Prelude; Piano Music for Young and Old, Books 1 and 2; Symphonic Suite, Op 8; Five Pieces, Op 3; Three Pieces, Op 59

     (LP) Decca SDD 475
     Published 1975
     Album: Nielsen Piano Music, Volume 1

Humoresque-Bagatelles, Op 11; Suite, Op 45; Chaconne, Op 32; Dance of the Lady's Maids; Theme with Variations, Op 40
     (LP) Decca SDD 476
     Published 1975
     Album: Nielsen Piano Music, Volume 2

Complete Piano Music from the above 2 LPs
     Reissued 2015
     (CD) Somm Recordings SOMMCD 0146-2

PITFIELD
Prelude, Minuet and Reel; Studies on an English Dance-Tune; Novelette in F

     [+ other Pitfield works] [see also With Other Artists]
     (CD) RNCM RNCMTP3
     Published 1994
     Reissued 2015
     (CD) Heritage Records Ltd HTGCD 210

Prelude, Minuet and Reel
     [+ Beardsley, Ellis, Forshaw, Golightly, Rawsthorne, JR Williamson]
     (CD) ASC Classical Series CS CD3
     Album: Contemporary British Piano Music [NWCA disc]
     Published 1998

PREVIN
The Invisible Drummer

     [+ Adams, Bennett, Carter, Copland, Rochberg]
     (2CD) Continuum CCD 1028/9
     Published 1991
     Album: Transatlantic Piano

RAVEL
Valses nobles et sentimentales 

     [+ Bridge/Casken/Howard/McCabe/Schubert]
     (CD) Toccata Classics TOCC 0139
     Published 2011
     John McCabe Farewell Recital

RAWSTHORNE
Four Bagatelles (1938)

     [+ Britten, Copland, McCabe, Nielsen, Schönberg, Webern]
     (LP) Pye GSGC 14116
     Published 1969
     Reissued: PRT (LP) GSGC 2069 / (Cassette) ZCGC 2069
     Reissued 1983
     Album: Twentieth-Century Piano Music

     [Alan Rawsthorne Complete Piano Music]
     (CD) Dutton Epoch CDLX 7167
     Published 2006

Ballade
     [Alan Rawsthorne Complete Piano Music]
     (CD) Dutton Epoch CDLX 7167
     Published 2006

Ballade in G sharp minor
     [Alan Rawsthorne Complete Piano Music]
     (CD) Dutton Epoch CDLX 7167
     Published 2006

Four Romantic Pieces
     [Alan Rawsthorne Complete Piano Music]
     (CD) Dutton Epoch CDLX 7167
     Published 2006

Sonatina
     [Alan Rawsthorne Complete Piano Music]
     (CD) Dutton Epoch CDLX 7167
     Published 2006

Theme and Four Studies
     [+ Beardsley, Ellis, Forshaw, Golightly, Pitfield, JR Williamson]
     (CD) ASC Classical Series CS CD3
     Album: Contemporary British Piano Music [NWCA disc]
     Published 1998
     Reissued 2016 [Album: Requiem]
     ASC Prima Facie PFCD 044

     [Alan Rawsthorne Complete Piano Music]
     (CD) Dutton Epoch CDLX 7167
     Published 2006

Valse
     [Alan Rawsthorne Complete Piano Music]
     (CD) Dutton Epoch CDLX 7167
     Published 2006

ROCHBERG
Carnival Music

     [+ Adams, Bennett, Carter, Copland, Previn]
     (2CD) Continuum CCD 1028/9
     Published 1991
     Album: Transatlantic Piano

SATIE
Trois Gymnopédies; Sonatine Bureaucratique; Véritable Préludes Flasques; Sports et Divertissements; Vieux sequins et vieilles cuirasses; Gnossiennes Nos 1, 4, 5; Sarabandes Nos 1, 3; Nocturne No 1; Passacaille; Six Posthumous Pieces; Rag-time Parade (trans. Ourdine)

     (LP) Saga SAGA 5387 / (also Cassette)
     Published 1974
     Album: Satie Piano Music
     Reissued: (CD) Saga EC 3369-2
     Reissued ?

Chapitres tournés en tous sens; Gnossiennes Nos 2, 3; Les trois valses distinguées du précieux dégoûtée; Avant-dernières pensées; Première pensée Rose + Croix; 2 rêveries nocturnes; Je te veux (Valse); Pièces froides; Prélude de la porte héroïque du ciel; Le Piège de Méduse; Nocturnes Nos 3, 5; Le Fils des Etoiles; Valse-Ballet; Rêverie du pauvre; Les Pantins dansent; 5 Grimaces
     (LP) Saga SAGA 5472 / (Also Cassette)
     Published 1980
     Album: More Satie Piano Music
     Reissued: (CD) Saga EC 3393-2
     Reissued 1994

Le Fils des Etoiles; 3 Gymnopédies; Sports et Divertissements; Les trois valses distinguées du précieux dégoûtée; Vieux sequins et vieilles cuirasses
     (CD) Continuum not issued
     (Recorded 1992)

Avant Dernières Pensées; Chapitres tournés en tous sens; 5 Grimaces; Gnossiennes 1-5; Gymnopédies 1-3; Je te veux - Valse; Nocturnes 1, 3, 5; Passacaille; Pièces Froides; Le Piége de Méduse; Ragtime Parade; Rêverie du Pauvre; Sonatine Bureaucratique; Sports et Divertissements; Valse-Ballet
     (CD) Regis RRC 1227
     Reissued 2005
     Album: The Velvet Gentleman

SAXTON
Chacony for left hand

     (CD) NMC D065
     Published 2000
     Album: Saxton piano and chamber music

SCARLATTI
Sonatas: in G, K105; G minor, K426; D minor, K517; D, K490; F minor, K69; F, K518; E, L28; E, K215; C, K133; G, K259; G minor, K43; C, K460

     (LP) Hyperion A66025
     Published 1981

SCHÖNBERG
Six Little Pieces, Op 19

     [+ Britten, Copland, McCabe, Nielsen, Rawsthorne, Webern]
     (LP) Pye GSGC 14116
     Published 1969
     Reissued: PRT (LP) GSGC 2069 / (Cassette) ZCGC 2069
     Reissued 1983
     Album: Twentieth-Century Piano Music

SCHUBERT
Sonata in A minor,D784 

     [+ Bridge, Casken, Howard, McCabe, Ravel]
     (CD) Toccata Classics TOCC 0139
     Published 2011
     Album: John McCabe Farewell Recital

Sonata in C, D840 (Relique); 3 Piano Pieces (Impromptus), D846
     (LP) Davjohn - not issued
     Recorded 1968

WILLIAM SCHUMAN
Piano Concerto

     with Albany Symphony Orchestra / David Alan Miller
     [+ Schuman]
     (CD) Albany TROY566
     Published 2003

SCHUMANN
Fantasiestücke, Op 12, Nos 2, 3, 4; Waldszenen, Op 82, Nos 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; Kinderszenen, Op 15; Romances, Op 28, Nos 2, 3

     Oryx (LP) BRL 59 / (Cassette) BRL 59
     Recorded 1972

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
The Lake in the Mountains; Hymn-Tune Prelude on "Song 13" (Gibbons); Suite of 6 Short Pieces

     [+ Bax, Holst, Ireland, Moeran, Warlock]
     (LP) Decca SDD 444
     Published 1974
     Album: Pastorale

     [+ Bax/Britten/Holst/Ireland/Joubert/Moeran/Warlock]
     (CD) British Music Society BMS103CDH
     Album: An English Recital [all reissues]

WARLOCK
Five Folk-song Preludes

     [+ Bax, Holst, Ireland, Moeran, Vaughan Williams]
     (LP) Decca SDD 444
     Published 1974
     Album: Pastorale

     [+ Bax/Britten/Holst/Ireland/Joubert/Moeran/Vaughan Williams]
     (CD) British Music Society BMS103CDH
     Album: An English Recital [all reissues]

WEBERN
Variations, Op 27

     [+ Britten, Copland, McCabe, Nielsen, Rawsthorne, Schönberg]
     (LP) Pye GSGC 14116
     Published 1969
     Reissued: PRT (LP) GSGC 2069 / (Cassette) ZCGC 2069
     Reissued 1983
     Album: Twentieth-Century Piano Music

WILLIAMSON, JOHN R.
3 Palindromic Preludes

     [+ Beardsley, Ellis, Forshaw, Golightly, Pitfield, Rawsthorne]
     (CD) ASC Classical Series CS CD3
    Album: Contemporary British Piano Music [NWCA disc]
     Published 1998

 

Updated and checked 20 July 2016

 

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