Piano

The first sketches for this piece date back to 2002, written as a tribute to Argentinian friends during a period of great economic and social crisis in their country. This composition draws on a deep fascination and interest in the most archaic... Read more

In her Impromptu, Helena Winkelman conjures an atmosphere of timelessness, employing musical elements variously meditative and percussive, punctuated by shadowy accents in the contrabass register and delicate flourishes in the soprano. This... Read more

Sami's Piece was written for a jazz musician, and should be played with a jazz feel (and a nod to polyrhythmic Balkan folk music). It's an exuberant work, relatively short, but dizzying, full of surprises, musical humor, and changes of atmosphere.... Read more

L’enfance en éclats 2001 [Childhood Shattered]
As its title suggests, Childhood Shattered is program music. A simple and graceful tune, symbolizing childhood, is abruptly interrupted by a horrific, dissonant chord. The tune returns ; but the... Read more

Suite No. 1, written by Richard Lane between his 20th and 22nd year, marks the beginning of the high level music he composed for solo piano. The five movements follow one soul state after another. Polichinelle: Lane skillfully lets the notes run,... Read more

Characterized by impressionistic and modal elements with far-ranging moods, from a whimsical carnival first movement to a sad soul-searching second movement, followed by fairytale sounding third movement. Read more

The first movement has a dreamy and dramatic impressionistic quality, whereas the second movement is deeply melancholy and religious sounding. The third movement is playful with pulsating rhythms, which demonstrate a symphonic jazz feel. Read more

A bold and invigorating first movement, a mysterious and tender second movement and a third movement with several mood shifts from lyrical to highly rhythmical. Read more

Persistently melodic, with constant forward movement, accompanied by densely chromatic harmonies and many polyrhythmic sections, creating an intensely dramatic work. Read more

Julien-François Zbinden wrote this short spanish tinted Concerto de Gibraltar for piano, brass orchestra and percussion (instrumentation Roger Volet) for the Ensemble Romand d’Instruments de Cuivre (ERIC - attached to the broadcast Radio Suisse... Read more

The composer wrote this basically pedagogical work intended for young pianists. Beginning with each of the seven pitches of the diatonic scale, with the individual pieces having feminine first names, he proposed the following: - to assign a role of... Read more

The time had come to pay homage to someone who has been a faithful companion to me for 65 years and has witnessed of the joy and pain I have endured during the writing of all of my opuses, from 8 to 111. Today he still shares my fervor for jazz... Read more

The work is in one movement, about five minutes in duration, and divided into three sections. The overall thematic structure consists of short melodic motifs, which develop and grow into larger shapes. These shapes are sometimes inverted, mirrored,... Read more

“...In Georgi Mintchev’s Concerto for Piano the history of the whole genre is present: Grieg, Rachmaninov, Ravel, Prokofiev, Bartok. Yet Minchev’s work does not consist of quotations or stylistic borrowing, but rather of respective musical and... Read more

An enchanting splendour characterises Áskell Masson’s work Fantasiestück, combined with considerable emotional depth in the treatment of the piano, which at times somehow reminded the reviewer of Beethoven’s very last piano sonatas, although of... Read more

Talent Night At The Zoo is a small album with seven charming and imaginative short pieces which can be considered as “early to late intermediate”, although, with all the octaves, a child would have to be physically advanced enough to do those pieces... Read more

Richard Lane dedicated with pleasure smaller works to friends or students. All have his caracteristic musical signature, a synthesis between charm and an exceptional sense for melodic and harmonic forms. Few are the composers able to write simple,... Read more

The Piano Concerto No. 1 for Children is creating a sensational musical event when a (very) young talent is performing on stage as a “great” soloist. Ilia Chkolnik succeeded masterly to constrain the traditional three-movement concerto form to... Read more

Armenian Bas-Reliefs is a cycle of 5 short, very lively, stilized pieces with armenian roots piano pieces. Read more

 The “litte secret” (Petit secret) is a simple folksong hidden within the voicings of the three-pitch chords at the beginning of the piece, then through the harmonics of the Allegro, and finally within the clusters at the end. Read more

Each of the five movements of my suite was inspired by a phrase drawn from the poetry of Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891). The opening movement (“…vieilles fanfares d’héroïsme”) is a brief introductory fanfare. The second movement (“…la tristesse... Read more