Transfiguration - The Piano Music Of Phillip Cooke

But what does 'transfiguration' mean? Or what do I take it to mean? Well, in its broadest sense it is a complete change of material from one form into a more beautiful or spiritual state - in many of these short pieces (or movements) I seeks to do something similar, taking the existing material and transfiguring it into something more ethereal and mystical. This act of composition has been present in my pieces for a long time, but it has only been recently that I have realised that it is a concept with deep resonances and significance in my work. The process began with the Folksongs, which I subtitled 'studies in transfiguration' as they not only suggest the beginning of a process, but also that the very nature of the change of form is often slight or ephemeral - the opening of a door to another mode of being or thinking. Later works carried on this process, with the final work (Theme and Transfigurations) taking a short extant piece of my own and transfiguring aspects of it into something entirely different. Phillip Cooke November 2022

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Format: CD
Artist: Duncan Honeybourne
Release Date: 21 April 2023
Genre: Classical Music
Label: Prima Facie
Distributor: MGM Music