Anthony Burgess – Selected Piano Pieces

This video has been made possible by the kind permission of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation ➡️ Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) is nowadays mostly known for his literary output: his name has been made popular by Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of his novel A Clockwork Orange, but his other works encompass a wide range of genres, including sci-fi/dystopian, historical, bios, comic/grotesque (The Wanting Seed, 1985, the Malayan Trilogy, Napoleon Symphony...). But, as Burgess himself said: “I wish people would think of me as a musician who writes novels, instead of a novelist who writes music on the side.“ The International Anthony Burgess Foundation offers many pages dedicated to his music, and yet a vast amount of his works are still unpublished and unperformed. In this video, I present a selected number of piano pieces for which both recordings and scores are currently available. Richard Casey is playing, from the album The Piano Music of Anthony Burgess. Preludes (1965) I. Modéré [00:00] II. Très Modéré [01:57] III. Vivo [03:02] IV. Maestoso [03:46] V. Molto lento, ma grazioso [05:51] VI. Energico [09:00] Master Coale’s Pieces (1978) Rhapsody [09:52] Two Pieces – I. (or II.) [12:14] Two Pieces – II. (I.), Chaconne [12:56] Master Coale’s Maggotte [15:39] Tango (1984) [19:26] Follow the International Anthony Burgess Foundation: ➡️ ➡️ ➡️ ➡️ 🎶 SUBSCRIBE to my PATREON! → 🎶 PAYPAL for free donations! →