Brilliant on the composition side and the performance was simply amazing. The music that you composed back in our days together (2009?) still resounds here to me; the sensitive touch/dynamics, those subtle harmonic side slippins' and control of the energy is profoundly exciting. I loved 18:00 - 22:00 particularly but the connection to the text was superb. Thanks Paul!
Paul, I felt the need, since it was 100% complimentary, to leave something as a public comment. It might come as no surprise to you that, similar to Rachmaninoff's recordings of his own works, I think this might be the finest recording of this work, and I consider that an achievement as, considering myself highly as a pianist, I can't touch that first piece with a 12 foot pole before my hands burn up. The additions are great from the first two...the third piece using elements from the earlier two, even though it's not a sonata from the Classical period, great stuff. Thinking of the poetry of the third piece, I felt it important to mention that one of the videos next to this one in my queue is about the origins of Doomsday Batman, which is a Batman that infected himself with the Doomsday strain (I'll explain to you what that is when we meet up), in order to defeat Superman, corrupting himself more than just morally. Great job.
I just realized the point of this, aside from others, I'm sure, was that this was the unveiling of the 4th piece, so here's my 2 bits on it---I love how it keeps coming back to that pattern you made, like a Barber Excursions rondeau, and while not exactly being true to the poetry it's based on, I was thinking about how it might be amazing to juxtapose that with...big surprise here, the Rachmaninoff transcription of the Scherzo from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" or just the Scherzo from the Chopin 3rd piano sonata (2nd movement, I think).
Beautiful, Paul! A wonderful interplay between your work and the Strand.
Brilliant on the composition side and the performance was simply amazing. The music that you composed back in our days together (2009?) still resounds here to me; the sensitive touch/dynamics, those subtle harmonic side slippins' and control of the energy is profoundly exciting. I loved 18:00 - 22:00 particularly but the connection to the text was superb. Thanks Paul!
Paul, I felt the need, since it was 100% complimentary, to leave something as a public comment. It might come as no surprise to you that, similar to Rachmaninoff's recordings of his own works, I think this might be the finest recording of this work, and I consider that an achievement as, considering myself highly as a pianist, I can't touch that first piece with a 12 foot pole before my hands burn up. The additions are great from the first two...the third piece using elements from the earlier two, even though it's not a sonata from the Classical period, great stuff. Thinking of the poetry of the third piece, I felt it important to mention that one of the videos next to this one in my queue is about the origins of Doomsday Batman, which is a Batman that infected himself with the Doomsday strain (I'll explain to you what that is when we meet up), in order to defeat Superman, corrupting himself more than just morally. Great job.
I just realized the point of this, aside from others, I'm sure, was that this was the unveiling of the 4th piece, so here's my 2 bits on it---I love how it keeps coming back to that pattern you made, like a Barber Excursions rondeau, and while not exactly being true to the poetry it's based on, I was thinking about how it might be amazing to juxtapose that with...big surprise here, the Rachmaninoff transcription of the Scherzo from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" or just the Scherzo from the Chopin 3rd piano sonata (2nd movement, I think).