This piano album visits the raga in Morning Meditation, folk fiddle and bass from the American square dance, dream images in Nocturne, heroism’s selflessness in Eroica, the impetuous melodies of jazz pianist Thelonious Monk, Claude Debussy’s water music from his...
Baroque styling of Domenico Scarlatti and Johann Sebastian Bach is combined here with a freedom of tempo, tonality and density, embracing a unique modern expression for the harpsichord. Preludes and fugues are through-composed, sometimes with baroque-inspired motives...
Arpa is Italian for harp. Every voice in each movement is an arpeggio, the act of unfurling a selected group of tones, best expressed in the sweep of a harp. Lines of differing tempi interact, causing an expansion of western counterpoint, first refined in the music of...
The sounds and gestures of distinct cultural genres are explored here, and expanded to create new musical forms beyond tradition. Tu tu mbira (10:36) In Sudanese, tu tu mbira means something that is good, reflecting a positive mood. The mbira instrument is an African...
Stile Brillante is a term for 19th century virtuosity, which I have redefined in this album, from a single effort to a union of interlaced forces. The Chopin etudes were used as a model, through unbridled emotion and utilization of the entire piano range. Imagine a...
surf raga (10:27) arctic raga (10:34) fjord raga (11:04) pelagic raga (12:44) squall raga (11:50) reef raga (12:03) Ocean Ragas explores the tradition of the Indian raga form, for solo piano and percussion. 1 – surf raga Listening to the rhythm beating against...
