In the HandsPaul Cantrell's music weblog: Original recordings of piano music old and new, classical and otherwise, from a devoted amateur. The podcast features complete pieces -- not just snippets! -- and spoken commentary. Music ranges from Chopin, Brahms, Schubert and Schumann to avante-garde improvisations.Chopin Preludes 4 and 9 (remastered)- March 26, 2007 Visiting the house of my composer friend Matthew Smith (who has an outstanding CD out now, by the way), I noticed the score to Chopin&8217;s E minor prelude out on the piano. It turns out that his wife, children&8217;s book illustrator and author Lauren Stringer, is taking piano lessons, and she has been working on it. I was delighted the piece is a favorite of mine. I dug out my recording of it for her to hear, and decided it was high time that I release a remastered version. The piece has...http://innig.net/music/inthehands/2007/03/25/125/ Nomade Clef- March 7, 2007 I don&8217;t usually write jazz tunes, but my friend Todd asked me to write one for him. It sounded like fun, and he had written several great pieces for me, so I took up the challenge. Nomade Clef is the result. Todd premiered it at this year&8217;s Keys Please, with David Edminster on tenor sax, and I think they did just a marvelous job with it. They really made it fly. I only wrote a lead sheet (just melody and chords)with a bare-bones piano part underneath to suggest voicings in the piano.http://innig.net/music/inthehands/2007/03/07/124/ |