NEW RELEASE FEBRUARY......CC9036CD. JOSEF HOLBROOKE (1878-1958) MUSIC FOR PIANO Vol.2.....PANAGIOTIS TROCHOPOULOS (piano).....Rhapsodie-Etudes Op.42 No.5 “Une nuit tenebreuse”, No.6 “Nocturne le Soir”, No.7 “Toccata", No.8 “Fantoches”, No.9 “Valse Fantasie”.....Nocturnes Op.121 No.3 “Juliet”, No.5 “Bridal Ballad", No.6 “Bronwen”, No.7 “Aerial”, No.8 “Ulalume”.....Celtic Suite Op.72 No.1 “Uliam Dhoan”, No.2 “All Thro’ the Night”, No.3 “Song of the Bottle”, No.4 “Strathspeys”.....Concert Valse, Talsarnau Op.79.....Four Futurist Dances Op.66 No.1 “Leprechaun Dance”, No.2 “Demons’ Dance”.....The Rhapsodie-Etudes, Op.42, and the Nocturnes, Op.121, complete these works commenced on Volume One.....Rob Barnett, Editor of Music Web International, wrote in his review of Volume One "Barrage demands and receives a virtuosic cauldron of a performance from Trochopoulos.... The Nocturne, Elan, with its main theme familiar from The Birds of Rhiannon is tellingly played – weighted with audacious deliberation". In his review of Volume 2 he wrote "At times Panagiotis does extraordinary things with this music where it careers along like a runaway pianola driven by Mussorgsky....There is much here to enjoy from the tempestuous to the poetic....An exciting virtuoso flare can be heard in the grand thunder and lightning of the Valse Fantaisie....Talsarnau begins explosively in the grand manner and sweeps on through episodes of dreamy languor, elegance and purposeful dark energy."....Trochopoulos, at 27 years of age, is already the world's foremost exponent of the piano music of Josef Holbrooke.