{"product_id":"burge-chiu-twenty-four-preludes","title":"Burge \/ Chiu- Twenty-Four Preludes (CD)","description":"\u003cp\u003eJohn Burge (b. 1961, Dryden, Ontario) is a Canadian composer who has been teaching at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario since 1987. He has written a large body of vocal, chamber, and orchestral compositions, and received the 2009 JUNO Award for Classical Composition of the Year. Some critics have likened his compositional style to that of Benjamin Britten and Maxwell Davies. Philip Chiu is acclaimed for his brilliant pianism, sensitive listening, and a stage presence that eschews the hermit-pianist image in favour of openness, authenticity, and connection with audiences. Inaugural winner of the Mecenat Musica Prix Goyer, Chiu has become one of Canada's leading musicians through his infectious love of music and his passion for creation and communication. Given the number of precedents in the world of Classical music, it is fair to state that there is a long traditional of composing a set of Twenty-Four Preludes for solo piano. John Burge's preludes draw their primary influence from Chopin's Opus 28 set in that Burge also composes one prelude in each major and minor key, employing the exact same ordering of keys used by Chopin. While Chopin was writing music in the highly chromaticized harmonic language of the early 19th century, in 2015, the year that Burge completed his set, the concept of tonality has undergone so many developments since Chopin's time that there are now whole schools of musical techniques that produce music that is quite atonal. As an all-governing principle for his set of preludes though, Burge made it a personal requirement that each prelude had to embrace it's tonic key in a decisively audible fashion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e24 Piano Preludes: No. 1 In C Major\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e24 Piano Preludes: No. 2 In A Minor \u0026amp;quot;Bells In Winter\u0026amp;quot;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e24 Piano Preludes: No. 3 In G Major \u0026amp;quot;Playground Games\u0026amp;quot;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e24 Piano Preludes: No. 4 In E Minor\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e24 Piano Preludes: No. 5 In D Major \u0026amp;quot;Linear Reverberations\u0026amp;quot;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e24 Piano Preludes: No. 6 In B Minor \u0026amp;quot;Off-Beat Waltz\u0026amp;quot;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e24 Piano Preludes: No. 7 In A Major\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e24 Piano Preludes: No. 8 In F-Sharp Minor\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e24 Piano Preludes: No. 9 In E Major \u0026amp;quot;The Singing Clock\u0026amp;quot;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e24 Piano Preludes: No. 10 In C-Sharp Minor\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e24 Piano Preludes: No. 11 In B Major \u0026amp;quot;The Autoharp\u0026amp;quot;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e24 Piano Preludes: No. 12 In G-Sharp Minor \u0026amp;quot;Das Thema\u0026amp;quot;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e24 Piano Preludes: No. 13 In F-Sharp Major \u0026amp;quot;One-Note Ostinato\u0026amp;quot;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e24 Piano Preludes: No. 14 In E-Flat Minor\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e24 Piano Preludes: No. 15 In D-Flat Major \u0026amp;quot;Polytonality\u0026amp;quot;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e24 Piano Preludes: No. 16 In B-Flat Minor \u0026amp;quot;The Hummingbird\u0026amp;quot;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e24 Piano Preludes: No. 17 In A-Flat Major \u0026amp;quot;The Aeolian Harp\u0026amp;quot;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e24 Piano Preludes: No. 18 In F Minor\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e24 Piano Preludes: No. 19 In E-Flat Major \u0026amp;quot;The Deadline\u0026amp;quot;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e24 Piano Preludes: No. 20 In C Minor\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e24 Piano Preludes: No. 21 In B-Flat Major\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e24 Piano Preludes: No. 22 In G Minor\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e24 Piano Preludes: No. 23 In F Major \u0026amp;quot;Spring Thaw\u0026amp;quot;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e24 Piano Preludes: No. 24 In D Minor \u0026amp;quot;La Fin\u0026amp;quot;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Alliance - BT","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46986608607453,"sku":"773811273191","price":71.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/3730556-2512442.jpg?v=1762931301","url":"https:\/\/shop.darksiderecords.com\/ar-ae\/products\/burge-chiu-twenty-four-preludes","provider":"Darkside Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}