Title: Loughlin: Piano & Chamber Music Artist: Gladys Chua Label: Toccata Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 5060113447203 Genre: Classical Artists Release Date: 2024-07-05 Number of Discs: 1
The Liverpudlian George Loughlin (1914-84) was appointed professor of music at the University of Melbourne in 1958, remaining in that post for 21 years. That he was also a composer was generally unknown - a former colleague, hearing one of the pieces on this album, exclaimed: 'That's George?' The earliest works here are audibly by an English composer, one who knew his Vaughan Williams, and blend an honest sincerity with fleet-footed wit. The approach of the later pieces is more philosophical and searching, the harmony more at ease with dissonance and the melodic lines more angular - in both peppy counterpoint and long-breathed lyricism.
