Intro [00:00]
00:12 No.1 Labyrinth
02:44 No.2 Water-Pearls
03:47 No.3 The Burning Joss-Stick
06:12 No.4 Floralia
Piano - Eric Parkin
William Baines was an English pianist and composer who wrote over 150 works for solo piano and a number of larger orchestral works before his premature death of tuberculosis at the age of 23. Despite his youth, William Baines completed roughly 150 works, mostly in the genre of the piano miniature and he left a symphony, a poem for piano and orchestra, and a number of chamber works. Many of his piano works are influenced by the natural world and often have descriptive titles. Perhaps his best-known works are the piano portrait "Goodnight to Flamboro'" and "The Lone Wreck" comprising the collection Tides, named after Flamborough Head, the promontory on the Yorkshire coast. His Seven Preludes from 1919 are considered to be amongst his finest compositions. There are recordings by Eric Parkin (1997) and by Peter Jacobs (2021). His Symphony in C minor was premiered by the Airedale Symphony Orchestra at the Grassington Festival in 1991.
