Oxford Contemporary Repertoire series
Über den Autor
Robert Sherlaw Johnson was born in Sunderland in 1932 and died in November 2000. He was educated at the University of Durham and the Royal Academy of Music, later studying piano in Paris with Jacques Février and composition with Nadia Boulanger, as well as attending some of Messiaen's classes at the Conservatoire. After that, he taught in schools, played the piano for a touring ballet company and a group of Spanish dancers, and established a considerablenreputation as a concert pianist, specialising in performances of piano music by major 20th-century composers.
Klappentext
This sonata for piano is formed from a set of variations with intervening cadenza and coda. It is a very rhythmic atonal work, and demonstrates the strong influence of Messiaen on Sherlaw Johnsons music.
