Valerie Tryon
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Valerie Tryon is a British
-born classical
pianist
. Since 1971 she has resided in Canada
, but continues to pursue an international performing and recording career, and spends a part of each year in her native Britain. Among her specialisms is the music of Franz Liszt
, of which she has made a number of celebrated recordings. Currently 'Artist-in-Residence' at McMaster University
, Hamilton
, Ontario
, Valerie Tryon is active as a concerto soloist, recitalist, chamber musician, accompanist and adjudicator.
, Valerie Tryon was performing regularly in public while still a child. She toured with the Northern Youth Orchestra of Great Britain at the age of nine, and had broadcast for the BBC
before she was 12. Having received the ARCM and LRAM diplomas in 1948, she then became one of the youngest students ever to be admitted to the Royal Academy of Music
, where from 1950-55 she studied with Eric Grant. She made her London début in 1953.
While a student Valerie Tryon received the RAM's highest award in piano playing; she also won the coveted Boise Scholarship, which enabled her to study with Jacques Février
in Paris
(1955-6). In 1956 she was a prize winner at the Liszt Competition in Budapest
. A recital at the 1959 Cheltenham Festival
was acclaimed by some of the UK's foremost critics, and helped launch her adult concert career.
, South Africa
, Canada, and the USA. She has performed piano concerto
s with the Hallé Orchestra
, Royal Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra
, Toronto Symphony Orchestra
, and other major orchestras. The list of conductors with whom she has worked includes Sir Colin Davis
, Sir Adrian Boult
, Charles Dutoit
, Pierre Monteux
and Simon Streatfeild
.
As a soloist, Valerie Tryon is especially noted for her performances of the works of Chopin
, Liszt
and Rachmaninoff
.
In 1976 Valerie Tryon became Associate Professor of Music at McMaster University; in 1980, the post of Artist-in-Residence at McMaster was created for her. Within North America, Valerie Tryon has appeared in such cities as Toronto, Montreal, Boston, Washington, Pittsburgh, Minneapolis, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. She became a naturalised Canadian citizen in 1986.
Valerie Tryon was among the first concert and recording artists of the front rank to recognise the significance of the new music technologies and the internet, and is unique in having created a large number of MIDI sequences for web-based distribution. To prepare her 'live' sequences she uses a Roland FP8-88 weighted MIDI keyboard controller with 'real time' recording techniques; as of 2009 her recordings in this medium number almost 900, most of them produced in collaboration with PG Music, Inc. In 1993 she released with PG the computer based learning programm "Pianist" with 215 MIDI-Sequences of classical pieces. On the PC-screen you could see a piano keyboard and the notes she played when recording each piece.
One of Ms. Tryon’s chief enthusiasms is chamber music. Two of her best-known duo partners in England were Alfredo Campoli
(violin) and George Isaac (cello), with both of whom she made a number of significant recordings. In 1981, she entered into a duo partnership with cellist Coenraad Bloemendal
that resulted in 6 recording on the Dorian label from 1989-94. Her 1971 performance with Isaac of Rachmaninov’s Cello Sonata is now considered to be a collector's item. In 1986 she was a co-founder (with Gerard Kantarjian) of the Rembrandt Trio, and frequently appears with Camerata and Trio Canada.
and Scarlatti
to contemporary composers; it also includes more than sixty concertos and a significant amount of chamber music. Among modern British composers, both Alun Hoddinott
and John McCabe
have dedicated works to her, and she has been active in promoting such Canadian composers as Srul Irving Glick
, Murray Adaskin
, Milton Barnes
and Claude Champagne
.
She is well known for her interpretations of the romantics; when the BBC launched its Radio Enterprises record label, some years ago, Valerie Tryon's performance of Rachmaninov's 'Etudes Tableaux', op. 39, was the first classical disc to be released.
More recently she has recorded the complete Ballades and Scherzos of Chopin for the CBC's "Musica Viva" label, a disc which Harold Schonberg of the New York Times described as “the best Chopin recording of the past decade.”
Notwithstanding her involvement in the music of the nineteenth century, she retains a deep love of Scarlatti, whose keyboard sonatas she has delighted in playing in public since her childhood and early youth, and to which she remains deeply committed.
Likewise, her ongoing series of the complete piano music of Claude Debussy, represents a special passion: she has twice performed this important repertoire in a demanding cycle of five successive recitals.
Ms. Tryon now broadcasts frequently for the BBC as well as for Canadian and American broadcasting networks. Her solo performances and appearances with the Rembrandt Trio have been recorded on the Omnibus, Pye, Argo, Lyrita, Educo and CBC labels. Currently, Valerie Tryon is involved with several other world-class pianists in recording the complete works of Franz Liszt for Naxos.
In early 2009, Valerie Tryon was in London to record an all-Mozart disc with the LSO (for release on the APR label). The works recorded were the Piano Concerto in C minor, K.491 (cadenza by Godowsky), Piano Concerto in C major, K.503 (cadenza by Hummel), and the Concert Rondo in A major, K.386.
. In 1986 the Hungarian Minister of Culture awarded her the Ferenc Liszt Medal of Honour for "outstanding achievement" in the interpretation of Liszt's music. In 1987 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music, and in 1991 was granted an Honorary Licentiate Diploma (LWCM) from the Western Ontario Conservatory of Music (now Conservatory Canada).
Valerie Tryon's recording Debussy Songs, performed with soprano Claudette LeBlanc, won a Canadian Juno Award
for "best classical album" in 1994. Her album "The Joy of Piano" brought a second Juno nomination in the same category the following year.
An honorary D. LITT was granted to Valerie Tryon in 2000 by McMaster University.
"She happily pointed Walton's rhythms and, generally, insinuated her instrument into the variable textures with remarkable discretion and sensibility. I have long admired Valerie Tryon's piano playing, and take pleasure in this opportunity to do some measure of justice to her gifts." (Sir Neville Cardus
, The Guardian [Manchester])
Solo Recordings:
Chamber Music & Songs:
United Kingdom
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-born classical
Classical music
Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...
pianist
Pianist
A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers.-Choice of genres:...
. Since 1971 she has resided in Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
, but continues to pursue an international performing and recording career, and spends a part of each year in her native Britain. Among her specialisms is the music of Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt ; ), was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher.Liszt became renowned in Europe during the nineteenth century for his virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age...
, of which she has made a number of celebrated recordings. Currently 'Artist-in-Residence' at McMaster University
McMaster University
McMaster University is a public research university whose main campus is located in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is located on of land in the residential neighbourhood of Westdale, adjacent to Hamilton's Royal Botanical Gardens...
, Hamilton
Hamilton, Ontario
Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, Hamilton has become the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe...
, Ontario
Ontario
Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....
, Valerie Tryon is active as a concerto soloist, recitalist, chamber musician, accompanist and adjudicator.
Early life
Born in Portsmouth, EnglandEngland
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
, Valerie Tryon was performing regularly in public while still a child. She toured with the Northern Youth Orchestra of Great Britain at the age of nine, and had broadcast for the BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
before she was 12. Having received the ARCM and LRAM diplomas in 1948, she then became one of the youngest students ever to be admitted to the Royal Academy of Music
Royal Academy of Music
The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is a conservatoire, Britain's oldest degree-granting music school and a constituent college of the University of London since 1999. The Academy was founded by Lord Burghersh in 1822 with the help and ideas of the French harpist and composer Nicolas...
, where from 1950-55 she studied with Eric Grant. She made her London début in 1953.
While a student Valerie Tryon received the RAM's highest award in piano playing; she also won the coveted Boise Scholarship, which enabled her to study with Jacques Février
Jacques Février
Jacques Février was a French pianist and teacher.Jacques Février was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, the son of the composer Henry Février. He studied with Édouard Risler and Marguerite Long at the Paris Conservatoire, taking a premier prix in 1921...
in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
(1955-6). In 1956 she was a prize winner at the Liszt Competition in Budapest
Budapest
Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...
. A recital at the 1959 Cheltenham Festival
Cheltenham Festival
The Cheltenham Festival is one of the most prestigious meetings in the National Hunt racing calendar in the United Kingdom, and has race prize money second only to the Grand National...
was acclaimed by some of the UK's foremost critics, and helped launch her adult concert career.
Career
Since 1959 Valerie Tryon has appeared as soloist and recitalist in major British concert halls and in EuropeEurope
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, South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
, Canada, and the USA. She has performed piano concerto
Piano concerto
A piano concerto is a concerto written for piano and orchestra.See also harpsichord concerto; some of these works are occasionally played on piano...
s with the Hallé Orchestra
The Hallé
The Hallé is a symphony orchestra based in Manchester, England. It is the UK's oldest extant symphony orchestra , supports a choir, youth choir and a youth orchestra, and releases its recordings on its own record label, though it has occasionally released recordings on Angel Records and EMI...
, Royal Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra
The London Symphony Orchestra is a major orchestra of the United Kingdom, as well as one of the best-known orchestras in the world. Since 1982, the LSO has been based in London's Barbican Centre.-History:...
, Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
The Toronto Symphony Orchestra is a Canadian orchestra based in Toronto, Ontario.-History:The TSO was founded in 1922 as the New Symphony Orchestra, and gave its first concert at Massey Hall in April 1923. The orchestra changed its name to the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in 1927. The TSO...
, and other major orchestras. The list of conductors with whom she has worked includes Sir Colin Davis
Colin Davis
Sir Colin Rex Davis, CH, CBE is an English conductor. His repertoire is broad, but among the composers with whom he is particularly associated are Mozart, Berlioz, Elgar, Sibelius, Stravinsky and Tippett....
, Sir Adrian Boult
Adrian Boult
Sir Adrian Cedric Boult CH was an English conductor. Brought up in a prosperous mercantile family he followed musical studies in England and at Leipzig, Germany, with early conducting work in London for the Royal Opera House and Sergei Diaghilev's ballet company. His first prominent post was...
, Charles Dutoit
Charles Dutoit
Charles Édouard Dutoit, is a Swiss conductor, particularly noted for his interpretations of French and Russian 20th century music...
, Pierre Monteux
Pierre Monteux
Pierre Monteux was an orchestra conductor. Born in Paris, France, Monteux later became an American citizen.-Life and career:Monteux was born in Paris in 1875. His family was descended from Sephardi Jews who came to France in the wake of the Spanish Inquisition. He studied violin from an early age,...
and Simon Streatfeild
Simon Streatfeild
Simon Streatfeild is a British-Canadian violist, conductor and teacher.Simon Nicholas Streatfeild was born in Windsor, Berkshire England in 1929. He studied viola with Frederick Riddle at the Royal College of Music from 1946 to 1950...
.
As a soloist, Valerie Tryon is especially noted for her performances of the works of Chopin
Frédéric Chopin
Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He is considered one of the great masters of Romantic music and has been called "the poet of the piano"....
, Liszt
Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt ; ), was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher.Liszt became renowned in Europe during the nineteenth century for his virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age...
and Rachmaninoff
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music...
.
In 1976 Valerie Tryon became Associate Professor of Music at McMaster University; in 1980, the post of Artist-in-Residence at McMaster was created for her. Within North America, Valerie Tryon has appeared in such cities as Toronto, Montreal, Boston, Washington, Pittsburgh, Minneapolis, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. She became a naturalised Canadian citizen in 1986.
Valerie Tryon was among the first concert and recording artists of the front rank to recognise the significance of the new music technologies and the internet, and is unique in having created a large number of MIDI sequences for web-based distribution. To prepare her 'live' sequences she uses a Roland FP8-88 weighted MIDI keyboard controller with 'real time' recording techniques; as of 2009 her recordings in this medium number almost 900, most of them produced in collaboration with PG Music, Inc. In 1993 she released with PG the computer based learning programm "Pianist" with 215 MIDI-Sequences of classical pieces. On the PC-screen you could see a piano keyboard and the notes she played when recording each piece.
One of Ms. Tryon’s chief enthusiasms is chamber music. Two of her best-known duo partners in England were Alfredo Campoli
Alfredo Campoli
Alfredo Campoli was an Italian-born British violinist, often known simply as Campoli. He was noted for the beauty of the tone he produced from the violin.-Biography:...
(violin) and George Isaac (cello), with both of whom she made a number of significant recordings. In 1981, she entered into a duo partnership with cellist Coenraad Bloemendal
Coenraad Bloemendal
Coenraad Bloemendal is a Canadian cellist, who has performed, taught and recorded primarily in the field of classical music during a career that has spanned more than four decades.-Formal Training:...
that resulted in 6 recording on the Dorian label from 1989-94. Her 1971 performance with Isaac of Rachmaninov’s Cello Sonata is now considered to be a collector's item. In 1986 she was a co-founder (with Gerard Kantarjian) of the Rembrandt Trio, and frequently appears with Camerata and Trio Canada.
Repertoire
Valerie Tryon's repertoire is large, ranging from BachJohann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
and Scarlatti
Scarlatti
Scarlatti was the name of several Italian composers:*Alessandro Scarlatti , Baroque composer known for operas and chamber cantatas*Francesco Scarlatti , Baroque composer and musician, brother of Alessandro Scarlatti...
to contemporary composers; it also includes more than sixty concertos and a significant amount of chamber music. Among modern British composers, both Alun Hoddinott
Alun Hoddinott
Alun Hoddinott CBE , was a Welsh composer of classical music, one of the first to receive international recognition.-Life and works:...
and John McCabe
John McCabe
John McCabe may refer to:*John McCabe , British composer and classical pianist*John McCabe , Shakespearean scholar and biographer*John McCabe , author and geneticist...
have dedicated works to her, and she has been active in promoting such Canadian composers as Srul Irving Glick
Srul Irving Glick
Srul Irving Glick, CM was a Canadian composer, radio producer, conductor, and teacher.Born in Toronto, Ontario, he received a Bachelor of Music from the University of Toronto 1955, and a Masters of Music , honorary FRCCO...
, Murray Adaskin
Murray Adaskin
-External links:*...
, Milton Barnes
Milton Barnes (composer)
Milton Barnes was a Canadian composer, conductor, and jazz drummer. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre, his music is noted for its frequent use of Jewish themes, its rejection of the avant garde in favor of tonality, and its blend of classical, jazz, and pop elements. His music has been...
and Claude Champagne
Claude Champagne
Claude Champagne was a Canadian composer.Born in Montreal, Quebec, he studied violin with Albert Chamberland, organ with Orpha-F. Deveaux, and piano with Romain-Octave Pelletier I and Alexis Contant at the Conservatoire national de musique. In 1921 he went straight to Paris to study music...
.
She is well known for her interpretations of the romantics; when the BBC launched its Radio Enterprises record label, some years ago, Valerie Tryon's performance of Rachmaninov's 'Etudes Tableaux', op. 39, was the first classical disc to be released.
More recently she has recorded the complete Ballades and Scherzos of Chopin for the CBC's "Musica Viva" label, a disc which Harold Schonberg of the New York Times described as “the best Chopin recording of the past decade.”
Notwithstanding her involvement in the music of the nineteenth century, she retains a deep love of Scarlatti, whose keyboard sonatas she has delighted in playing in public since her childhood and early youth, and to which she remains deeply committed.
Likewise, her ongoing series of the complete piano music of Claude Debussy, represents a special passion: she has twice performed this important repertoire in a demanding cycle of five successive recitals.
Ms. Tryon now broadcasts frequently for the BBC as well as for Canadian and American broadcasting networks. Her solo performances and appearances with the Rembrandt Trio have been recorded on the Omnibus, Pye, Argo, Lyrita, Educo and CBC labels. Currently, Valerie Tryon is involved with several other world-class pianists in recording the complete works of Franz Liszt for Naxos.
In early 2009, Valerie Tryon was in London to record an all-Mozart disc with the LSO (for release on the APR label). The works recorded were the Piano Concerto in C minor, K.491 (cadenza by Godowsky), Piano Concerto in C major, K.503 (cadenza by Hummel), and the Concert Rondo in A major, K.386.
Honours and awards
Valerie Tryon was an early recipient of the Harriet Cohen MedalHarriet Cohen International Music Award
The Harriet Cohen International Music Award was founded in 1951 by Sir Arnold Bax and others in 1951, in honour of the British pianist Harriet Cohen.- 1950s :1951*Philippe Entremont – Piano Medal1954*Ingrid Haebler – Beethoven Medal1955...
. In 1986 the Hungarian Minister of Culture awarded her the Ferenc Liszt Medal of Honour for "outstanding achievement" in the interpretation of Liszt's music. In 1987 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music, and in 1991 was granted an Honorary Licentiate Diploma (LWCM) from the Western Ontario Conservatory of Music (now Conservatory Canada).
Valerie Tryon's recording Debussy Songs, performed with soprano Claudette LeBlanc, won a Canadian Juno Award
Juno Award
The Juno Awards are presented annually to Canadian musical artists and bands to acknowledge their artistic and technical achievements in all aspects of music...
for "best classical album" in 1994. Her album "The Joy of Piano" brought a second Juno nomination in the same category the following year.
An honorary D. LITT was granted to Valerie Tryon in 2000 by McMaster University.
Quotations
"I love the challenge of making orchestral-like tone colours emerge from the instrument. While the pianistic element is uppermost, I often have orchestral coloring in mind for much of the music I play." (Valerie Tryon)"She happily pointed Walton's rhythms and, generally, insinuated her instrument into the variable textures with remarkable discretion and sensibility. I have long admired Valerie Tryon's piano playing, and take pleasure in this opportunity to do some measure of justice to her gifts." (Sir Neville Cardus
Neville Cardus
Sir John Frederick Neville Cardus CBE was an English writer and critic, best known for his writing on music and cricket. For many years, he wrote for The Manchester Guardian. He was untrained in music, and his style of criticism was subjective, romantic and personal, in contrast with his critical...
, The Guardian [Manchester])
Partial List of Recordings
No complete listing of Valerie Tryon's recordings currently exists. In the early stages of her career she made a number of records for Saga, Lyrita and Educo, but full details of these remain to be compiled.Solo Recordings:
- Hoddinott: Piano Works - Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 17; Nocturne No. 2, Op. 16, No. 1; Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 27; Nocturne No. 1, Op. 9; Elegy Op. 18, No. 3 (Lyrita REAM.2108; 1965)
- 'Valerie Tryon Plays Rachmaninov' (BBC REB-27/BBC RMC-4035 (cass); 1971)
- 'These You Have Loved: Romantic Piano Music' - including Chopin, Schumann, Liszt (BBC REC-112/BBC MRMC-015 (cass); 1975)
- 'Valerie Tryon Piano: In Public Concert': Chopin - Mozart - Liszt. 1978. CBC Musica Viva MV-1—1
- Liszt - Chopin et al. (Educo 3148; 1980)
- 'A Liszt Recital' - including Six ‘Paganini’ Studies, Gnomenreigen, Waldesrauschen (Educo 3086; 1980)
- 'The Joy of the Piano': including Balakirev: 'Islamey'; Ravel: 'Alborada del gracioso'; Chaminade: 'Automne' (CBC Records MVCD 1065; 1993)
- Chopin: Complete Scherzos and Ballades (CBC Records Musica Viva MVCD 1092; 1996)
- Liszt: Complete Piano Music Vol.11 - transcriptions of Mozart, Eduard Lassen, Robert Franz, Otto Lessman and Josef Dessauer (NAXOS 8.553508; 1998)
- 'Ferrucio Busoni: Visionary' - including Bach-Busoni Chaconne, Bizet-Busoni 'Carmen Fantasy', Indianisches Tagebuch (CBC Records MVCD 1126; 1999)
- Ignaz Friedman Vol.1 - including Passacaglia, op. 44; Studies on a Theme of Paganini, op. 47b; Concert Paraphrase on J. Strauss' 'Frühlingsstimmen' (Appian APR 5592; 2000)
- Liszt Complete Piano Music Vol.14 - Transcriptions of Ferdinand David's 'Bunte Reihe' (Naxos 8.553507; 2000)
- Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonatas K.1, 9, 11, 17, 19, 20, 25, 27, 29, 30, 33, 96, 147, 159, 201, 377, 427, 430, 525 & Sonata in F (attrib.) (Appian APR 5591; 2000)
- Liszt Complete Piano Music Vol.17 - Schubert song transcriptions including Müller Lieder and Erlkönig (Naxos 8.554729; 2001)
- Ravel: Piano Music, Vol.1 (Appian APR 5593; 2001)
- 'A Liszt Odyssey' - including 'Am stillen Herd', 'Liebestod' from 'Tristan' (Wagner-Liszt), Faust Waltz (Gounod-Liszt), Funérailles, Concert Studies, Hungarian Rhapsodies, and Liszt’s Buch der Lieder, vols. 1 and 2 (2 CDs; Appian APR 7039; 2004)
- Ravel: Piano Music, Vol.2 (Appian APR 5594; 2005)
- 'Valerie Tryon Plays Mendelssohn'- including Andante and Rondo Capriccioso, Op.14; Songs Without Words nos 1-3, 18, 25, 30, 34 & 37; Variations, Op.82; Three Fantasies or Caprices, Op.16; Variations, Op.83; Variations Serieuses, Op.54 (Appian APR 5595; 2005)
- 'Chopin: A Chronological Journey' - 46 works, including Andante spianato and Grand Polonaise, op. 22; Fantasie in F minor, op. 49; Sonata no. 2, in B-flat minor, op. 35; Sonata no 3, in B minor, op. 58; Barcarolle, op. 60; Nocturnes, Waltzes, and Mazurkas. (3CDs; APR 7301; 2007)
Chamber Music & Songs:
- Liszt: Violin Sonata ('Duo Sonata', G127); Strauss: Violin Sonata in E flat, Op. 18 (Alfredo Campoli, violin; Valerie Tryon, piano; Pye Virtuoso 0 TPLS13017; 1968)
- Rachmaninov: Cello Sonata in D minor, Op. 19; Hoddinott: Cello Sonata; Banks: Sequence for solo cello (George Isaac, cello; Valerie Tryon, piano; Argo ZRG-695; 1971)
- Hoddinott: Roman Dream; Piano Trio; Tate: Apparitions; Three Gaelic Ballads (Margaret Price, soprano; Gerald English, tenor; James Lockhart, piano; Douglas Tate, harmonica; Valerie Tryon, piano; Cardiff Festival Players dir. James Lockhart; Argo ZRG69; 1972)
- Mendelssohn: Trio for Piano and Strings no 1 in D minor, Op. 49; Schubert: Trio for Piano and Strings no 1 in B flat major, D 898/Op. 99 (Rembrandt Trio; Dorian Recordings DOR-90130; 1986)
- Brahms: Trio for Piano and Strings no 1 in B major, Op. 8; Antonín Dvořák: Trio for Piano and Strings no 4 in E minor, Op. 90/B 166 (Rembrandt Trio; Dorian Recordings; 1988)
- Ravel: Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello in A minor; Saint-Saëns: Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello no 1 in F major, Op. 18; Chaminade: Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello no 1 in G minor, Op. 11 (Rembrandt Trio; Dorian Recordings; 1989)
- Tchaikovsky: Piano trio in A minor, op. 50; Arensky: Piano trio no. 1 in D minor, op. 32 (Rembrandt Trio; Dorian Recordings; 1991)
- 'Salon Classics' - including works by Kreisler, Debussy, Suk, Dvorák, Herbert, Schumann, Liszt, Brahms, Chabrier, Grieg, Godard and Saint-Saëns (Rembrandt Trio; Dorian Recordings; 1991)
- Debussy: Songs (w. Claudette LeBlanc, soprano; Unicorn-Kanchana Records DKP CD 9133; 1992)
- 'Dances and Romances for Violin' - including works by Adaskin, Barnes, Bach, De Falla, Kreisler, Paganini (William BeauvaisWilliam BeauvaisWilliam Eugene Beauvais is a Canadian classical guitarist and composer who has performed in the United States, Europe, and across Canada....
, Valerie Tryon, Moshe Hammer; CBC Records MVCD 1071; 2001) - 'The Cantorial Voice of the Cello' - (Dorian 90208, 1994)
External links
- http://www.artset.net/ValerieTryon.html Valerie Tryon's official website
- http://www.thespec.com/article/208677 'Face to Face with Beethoven's Emperor' (interview in 'Hamilton Spectator', 2007)
- http://www.rockian.com.au/dor/dorrembp.htm Homepage of the Rembrandt Trio
- http://www.canadianencyclopedia.ca/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0003489 Encyclopedia of Music in Canada