Michael Parsons: Patterns of Connection Composer_Kendall; Hannah The title track Boogie Nights

The title track Boogie Nights (featuring a genuine 1920’s mechanical dancehall organ) plays on the pun of giant organs

and first broadcast by BBC Radio 3 on 22 October 2011 on Hear and Now

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Piano Quintet

Michael Parsons: Patterns of Connection Composer_Kendall; Hannah The title track Boogie NightsThis release is the first major survey of the music of Michael Parsons. Spread across two discs, Patterns of Connection features chamber and solo music dating from 1962, whilst Parsons was still a student at the Royal College of Music, to the present day. The music presented here spans a wide range of writing tonal and chromatic, simple and complex but always coheres to the rigorous ordering principles underlying the music, while displaying a striking