CD - Modern Music for Piano 3
Featured in the release are 12 new fascinating and ingenious works written for piano solo by the selected winners of the Call for Piano Works 2020.
The track-list includes:
01. Hovering No. 12 from Paul Klee: Painted Songs, composed by Jonathan Posthuma
02. The Oul’ Winda Rag, composed by Fergus Johnston
03 – 06. Piano Sonata no.1, composed by Gary Smart
07. Berkano, composed by Tatev Amiryan
08. Spread, composed by Bradley Robin
09. Prelude 5, composed by Allen McCullough
10. Tehuda, composed by Eli Korman
11 – 12. Balladen op. 10, composed by Jonathan Wang Hou
With a hundred years of history, the piano repertoire never ceases to surprise. In this album, we find multi-textured works that move spontaneously between forms, at times borrowing from the past, while remodelling and reinventing their revolving structures at others.
In “Prelude 5”, “Piano Sonata no. 1”, Balladen op. 10 and “The Oul’ Winda Rag”, we can find forms that adhere more to their iconic classic counterparts. They all have points of contact in their structures with their predecessors, though the harmonic-melodic material and their progressions flow freely and are more emancipated than their rigid classic or romantic ‘cousins’.
We then start to diverge with “Hovering” and “Spread”, two works were ambiguity and freely evolving material, horizontal lines, and harmonic structures repeat, merge and reform, generating a kaleidoscope of ideas and piano gestures. In “Berkano” and “Tehuda”, we find the final exploration of the piano resonance. The sound dissolves and becomes progressively more and more abstract, creating a landscape where the piano is suspended in time.
