Partituras para piano

The exploration of Romantic Repertoire Level 2 takes a look at the composers and musical styles of France, Russia and America, including well-known masterpieces as well as great new discoveries. Suita...

'Still Sorrowing' - a lament which is also a homage to Romantic sentiments - proved to make the most ingenious use of a prepared' piano that I have heard in a long time. While a recurrent plaint tinti...

Book of the Bells was written in Roger Woodward’s home in Brixton, London in late 1980 and early 1981, just before the first riots there. Woodward, as is well known, is a pianist of prodigious technic...

Track 1 - the electronic accompaniment (everything on the score except piano solo part) Track 2 - a silence (separator) Track 3 - solo part with accompaniment (for rehearsal)

Vers was commissioned by the Royal Festival Hall, for Pierre Boulez on the occasion of his 75th birthday. Following the double meaning of the word 'vers', this is a verse which leads 'towards' a brief...

‘… deliberately provocative, musical leftovers seasoned with wit.’ North Shore Times (Fred Blanks), 11 April 2001 ‘Getting up each other’s noses is a game that critics and performers often play in pri...

‘…a piece that sounds as if Khachaturian may have thought of it while primed with vodka and facing a Russian firing squad. This had wit.’ The Sydney Morning Herald (Fred Blanks), 16 August 1994

Description: This piece is a blues in ABA form with brief introduction and coda. The melody is built on a short melodic phrase: a riff. The bass part is a separate but related melodic phrase which bec...