Album Notes

Jane Beament has an international reputation as a contemporary music specialist.
She has given more than fifty premieres and has had many works written
for her. Here she performs' her husband David Osbon's piano sonatas released for the first time.
David says: ‘Although composed over several years these 3 sonatas were always
designed to be a set of works that could be performed together or individually.
There are some very obvious thematic and harmonic links between each of the
sonatas that, I hope, create a unity across the three works. I have deliberately set
each of these in a traditional 3 movement format and I have stayed very close
to traditional formal structures such as Sonata Allegro form, Ritornello form
etc. It worked for Mozart, it worked for Beethoven so why shouldn’t it work for
me? If there is any inspiration behind this music it is my wife, Jane Beament’s playing.’