COMPOSERS: O'leary
LABELS: Greendog
WORKS: Piano works
PERFORMER: Anthony Byrne (piano)
CATALOGUE NO: GDD 001 (available from greendog@eircom.net)
Victorian salon pieces from a Leipzig-trained Irishman who taught piano at the Royal Academy of Music in London for 50 years. There’s eccentric charm and unexpected harmonic twists, but the performances are heavy-handed, and the recording occasionally distorts and shifts perspective alarmingly. Martin Cotton
O'leary
Victorian salon pieces from a Leipzig-trained Irishman who taught piano at the Royal Academy of Music in London for 50 years. There’s eccentric charm and unexpected harmonic twists, but the performances are heavy-handed, and the recording occasionally distorts and shifts perspective alarmingly. Martin Cotton
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Published: January 20, 2012 at 1:16 pm