Piano Solo
Piano Solo
Fantasy 1988
Saturday, March 5, 1988
This is an ANCIENT recording of a VERY early work I wrote and performed in Hungary for a concert for the American Ambassador to Hungary. Its really not very "mature" but there are many good things in it, and I really like some of the ideas. At that time, it really pushed my compositional senses- since I was trying to reject the 12-tone system (even though the work uses it somewhat as a starting point) but I felt confused about going back to any kind of "tonality". The obvious influences are Skriabin, Bartok, Stravinsky and maybe a little Debussy. This is not the premiere recording, but another live performance in the USA, the recording quality is pretty bad, so please forgive me. This is really just a musical "curio" from me.
premiered in Hungary 1988,
n Hamden, CT in 1989