This week I had the honor of receiving 5 performances of my music in a 36 hour period - all in different parts of the world. Duo 46 premiered L'Ecume des Temps in Cincinatti the same night that Daniel Beliavsky gave the New York premiere of Piano Preludes 6, 7 and 8 at the Sequenza21 Concert to rousing applause. Duo Ahlert und Schwab performed Cassotis for Mandolin and Guitar the night before. So it's been an exciting week!
Because of recent interest in my piano music, I spent most of the Thanksgiving vacation polishing the scores to my piano preludes. I'd written many of them at a time when my job required a lot of late nights and rather than slow down the compositional process I decided to postpone the output of the scores. Preludes 10, 11 and 13 are now available and I made new realizations of them to boot.
Number 10 and 11 are invention like preludes and were intended to be part of a suite of pieces for less than virtuoso performers.
Piano Prelude 10 - Acrobat Score
Piano Prelude 10 - New Recording
Piano Prelude 11 - Acrobat Score
Piano Prelude 11 - New Recording
Number 13 is a crazy virtuoistic piece, stopping and starting and using Caribbean rhythms ecstatictally throughout. It's also one of the longer preludes and harkens forward to the ambitious 16, 17 and 18.
Piano Prelude 13 - Acrobat Score
Piano Prelude 13 - New Recording
Also, Daniel Beliavsky found a few mistakes in the score to Piano Prelude 7 and those have now been corrected. The tempi indication were straight quarter notes instead of dotted quarter notes. Although the tempi were accurate, they were misleading.
Piano Prelude 7 - Corrected Acrobat Score
And at the suggestion of composer/pianist Bruce Stark I've made a new recording of my Piano Sonata #3 which is slowed down and possibly not quite so intimidatingly impossible in sound.
Piano Sonata 3 - New Recording
Piano Sonata 3 - Acrobat Score