 
Harry Somers piano works
CMCCD 14509 (2 discs)
REISSUE/COMPILATION
Playing time: 47'57"/78'13" - TT 146'10"
Tracks: 23 + 16
Booklet pages: 44
© 1978 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 2008-9 Centrediscs
Sent to a reviewer on 8 March 2010
Listen: Allegro ma non troppo (Sonata No 3) (CD2 track 7, 0:00-0:48)
Harry Somers (1925-1999):
CD1:
Nothing Too Serious (1997)
1 It goes something like this ...
2 Sky blue, - Deep blue
3 Uptight
4 Somewhere in the Balkans
5 Alternating currents
6 Debussy
7 Who said it was easy?
Darrett Zusko, piano
Three Sonnets (1946)
8 Prelude
9 Lullaby to a Dead Child
10 Primeval
Karen Quinton, piano
11 Strangeness of Heart (1942)
Karen Quinton, piano
12 x 12 (Fugues for piano)
12 I
13 II
14 III
15 IV
16 V
17 VI
18 VII
19 VIII
20 IX
21 X
22 XI
23 XII
Jacinthe Couture, piano
CD2:
Testament of Youth (1945)
Sonata No 1
1 Largo
2 Adagio Molto
3 Largo - Allegro non troppo
Reginald Godden, piano
Sonata No 2 (1946)
4 Lento
5 Scherzando
6 Allegro
Paul Helmer, piano
Sonata No 3 (1950)
7 Allegro ma non troppo
8 Lento con moto
9 Scherzo: Allegro - Presto
André-Sébastien Savoie, piano
Sonata No 4 (1950)
10 Lento
11 Allegretto
12 Adagio
13 Andante
John McKay, piano
Sonata No 5 (1957)
14 Allegro
15 Lento
16 Allegro scherzando
Antonin Kubalek, piano
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