Performed by Murray McLachlan, recorded 1996.

Redbook Records RBCD002.

John McLeod’s Piano Sonata No 1 was commissioned by Peter Evans and first performed by him at the 1978 Edinburgh Festival. It was given its London premiere at the Wigmore Hall by Bryn Turkey in April 1980. Many pianists have since taken it up and in 1996 it was recorded by Murray McLachlan on a complete CD of McLeod’s piano music.

Dr Roger B Williams writes in the CD sleeve note: Like Schubert’s Wanderer Fantasy, which in turn inspired Liszt’s great Sonata in B minor, McLeod’s sonata is a compact single movement which contains within its structure the contrasting fast-slow-fast components of classical form.

The dramatic introduction alternates Maestro brillante and Allegro moderato statements, setting out the main ideas of the sonata in fragmented form These are then subjected to extension and development, culminating in a brilliant fugato and a virtuosic coda.

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Composed for piano, 1992. Dedicated to Murray McLachlan.

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Composition for solo viola, composed 2020 for the bicentenary celebrations of the Royal Academy of Music for which 200 composers were invited to write 200 new works for solo instrument or voice.

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Arranged from the music for the film, Another Time, Another Place directed by Michael Radford.

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Commissioned by the University of Aberdeen to mark the quincentenary celebrations of the University in 1995.

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For violin and piano, composed 1976. Duration: 9 mins.

First performed by Sam Bor and Roderick Brydon on 19 February 1976 at the University of Glasgow. It was subsequently performed many times, recorded and broadcast by Peter Mountain and Angela Dale.

Recording available on Moments in Time CD.

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For flute and piano (‘A Suite for Elspeth’) composed 1963, revised 2007. 9 minutes.

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