Three Fantastic Variations on Lilliburlero for Two Pianos is a composition by the British composer Madeleine Dring, published in 1948.Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, "Lilliburlero Variations", Novello, 2008 Maurice Hinson describes it as being an octatonic work comprising three mildly contemporary, moderately difficult conventional variations in common time that rely too heavily on triplets.Music for More than One Piano: An Annotated Guide (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1983, 2001) The composition takes as its theme Lilliburlero, a dance tune sometimes attributed to Henry Purcell, who published it in his Musick's Handmaid (1689).
David Nettle and Richard Markham have recorded the variations for Netmark (catalogue number NEMACD200, released 11 November 2003).Presto Classical, accessed 8 July 2014.
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