Imagine if tango, Debussy and Gershwin all met in one album, and you’ll get a sense for Sainsbury’s music.
Jill Kimball, Second Inversion, Seattle, on Lionel’s piano album Andalusian Fantasy
Piano
- Duration: c.10 minutesInstrumentation: piano solo
Duration c.10 minutes, composed 1990. A virtuoso piece steeped in the world of the flamencos of Andalucia, and the work from which Lionel's piano album Andalusian Fantasy takes its title.
- Duration: c.24 minutesInstrumentation: piano solo
Duration c.24 minutes, completed in 2010; included on Lionel’s piano album Sunlight and Storms.
- Duration: c.23 minutesInstrumentation: piano solo
Duration c.23 minutes, composed in 2003; included on Lionel’s piano album Sunlight and Storms.
- Duration: c.26 minutesInstrumentation: piano solo
Duration c.26 minutes, an early collection, completed 1987. Premiered by Jack Gibbons at St. John’s, Smith Square, London. Included on Lionel’s piano album Andalusian Fantasy.
- Duration: c.9 minutesInstrumentation: piano solo
Duration c.9 minutes, composed in 1994. First broadcast in the composer’s own performance on BBC Radio 3. The work is included on Lionel’s piano album Andalusian Fantasy.
- Duration: c.7 minutesInstrumentation: piano solo
Duration c.7 minutes, composed in 1998 and first performed by the composer at St. John’s College, Oxford. It is included on Lionel’s piano album Sunlight and Storms.
- Duration: c.17 minutesInstrumentation: piano solo
Duration c.17 minutes, written in 1996. Included on Lionel’s piano album Andalusian Fantasy.
- Duration: c.8 minutesInstrumentation: piano solo
Duration c.7 minutes, written in 1991. Included on Lionel’s piano album Andalusian Fantasy.
- Duration: c.5 minutesInstrumentation: piano solo
Duration c.5 minutes. Written to a private commission in 1997, and first performed by the composer at a concert of his own work at St. John’s College, Oxford. Included on Lionel’s piano album Sunlight and Storms.
- Duration: c.5 minutesInstrumentation: piano solo
Duration c.5 minutes, written in 1991. Two song-like pieces in Cuban rhythm, included on Lionel's piano album Sunlight and Storms. The composer has made several arrangements: for violin & piano, for piano duet, for strings and for wind quintet.
- Duration: c.6 minutesInstrumentation: piano solo
Duration c.6 minutes. An introspective piece in Latin rhythms from 2000, included on Lionel’s piano album Sunlight and Storms.
- Duration: c.4 minutesInstrumentation: piano solo
Duration c.4 minutes, a homage to Ravel composed in 2020 during Covid lockdown.
- Duration: c.2 minutesInstrumentation: piano solo
Duration c.3 minutes. A ‘song without words’, composed in 2001, included on Lionel’s piano album Sunlight and Storms.
- Duration: c.3 minutesInstrumentation: piano solo
Duration c.3 minutes. A short early work included on Lionel’s piano album Andalusian Fantasy.
- Duration: c.4 minutesInstrumentation: piano solo
Duration c.4 minutes; a short piece written to commemorate Barber’s death in 1981.
- Duration: c.3 minutesInstrumentation: piano solo
Duration c.3 minutes. A bluesy improvisation from 1988.
Two Pianos
- Duration: c.6 minutesInstrumentation: piano duo
Duration c.6 minutes, written in 1978 while the composer was a student at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.
Piano, Four Hands
- Duration: c.5 minutesInstrumentation: piano four hands
Duration c.5 minutes. Originally for solo piano; the duet arrangement was made in 1998 at the request of French pianist François Doublier.