A Rare Breed

'... an excellent and diverse range of pieces covering three decades ...'

John McCabe, who very sadly died earlier this year at the age of seventy-five, was one of the most important figures in our contemporary British music scene. He also belongs to the great lineage of our classical composer-pianists. His compositions are known and played worldwide and his skills as a virtuoso pianist are well known. His major piano works are some of the greatest contributions to the piano repertory written over the last five decades — Tenebrae and Haydn Variations stand as monuments in twentieth century piano literature...