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CDIn memoriam : Adam Pinto plays works for solo piano / by Roger Smalley, Stuart James, Katherine Potter, Lydia Gardner and Rebecca Erin Smith.
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Featured Australian works
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Three studies in black and white (2004) for solo piano Recorded/performed at: John Inverarity Music and Drama Centre, Hale School, Wembley Downs, WA., on Sep 21. |
Roger Smalley | Adam Pinto | 21 mins, 16 sec. |
Also includes: Negative tendencies / Stuart James -- Respires / Katherine Potter -- 5 stages of grief / Lydia Gardiner -- She falls in / Rebecca Erin Smith.
Product details
Roger Smalley AM (1943-2015) had a profound impact on the
development of contemporary musical composition in Australia, and
the initial inspiration for this project grew directly from his
virtuosity both as a pianist and as a composer of visceral music
for solo piano. A formidable pianist, Smalley had studied with
Stockhausen, given British premiere performances of several of
his Klavierstücke and, in the contemporary performance group
Intermodulation, was the first to combine live-electronics with
transcendental pianism to extend the sonic possibilities of the
instrument. Smalley brought this deep immersion in the European
experimental music scene with him to Perth along with his
appetite to explore new technologies and instrumental timbres
such as produced by the Australian made Stuart & Sons piano.
This project was born from a similar impulse to explore the
unique artistic possibilities of this remarkably colourful and
responsive instrument and features the first recording of
Smalley's Three Studies in Black and White made on the Stuart &
Sons piano. Developing on this inspiration, the trio of newly
commissioned works in this recording from Lydia Gardiner, Rebecca
Erin-Smith and Katherine Potter represent a process of creative
collaboration between composer, performer and instrument.
I. Gamelan : for the left hand alone (8 min.) -- II. Moto perpetuo (with interruptions) : for the right hand alone (4 min., 45 sec.) -- III. Dialogue : for both hands (5 min.)
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