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Chopin Preludes 4 and 9 (remastered) Updated: 2007-03-26 01:35:25 Description: 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’s E minor prelude out on the piano. It turns out that his wife, children’s book illustrato...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Nomade à Clef Updated: 2007-03-07 07:20:51 Description: I don’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 à Clef is the result. Todd premiered it ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Manic Dance (rough) Updated: 2007-01-19 23:13:14 Description: Things may have been quiet on the blog, but I’ve been doing tons of music work lately. The recent round of Zo went well: I took a bit of a risk playing mostly pieces that were fresh out of the practice oven (or, in a couple of cas...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Bach Sinfonia 5 and Schumann Bunte Blätter 6 (remastered) Updated: 2006-10-07 20:27:59 Description: As regular readers of In the Hands know, I’ve been working through my older recordings and applying my up-to-date mastering process — making them sound better, in other words. As I went through the list, I found that these two r...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Bach Sinfonia 5 and Schumann Bunte Blätter 6 (remastered) Updated: 2006-10-07 20:27:59 Description: As regular readers of In the Hands know, I’ve been working through my older recordings and applying my up-to-date mastering process — making them sound better, in other words. As I went through the list, I found that these two recordings make a n...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Todd Harper: Questions Updated: 2006-09-20 22:00:45 Description: Perhaps it would have been better if I’d just admitted to myself (and the world) that I’d be taking the summer off from In the Hands. But where’s the fun without the suspense? Here’s what I currently have in the...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Northwoods Police Report Updated: 2006-05-10 23:15:18 Description: After a cold (which left my voice in bad shape for podcasting) and MinneBar (which was a great pleasure), it’s back to In the Hands! I’m continuing from last time the series of recordings I made recently with soprano Kim Sue...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD First Autumn Night Updated: 2006-04-16 22:07:03 Description: Here, for the first time in a long time, is something I wrote — but it’s not the music! A couple of weeks ago, I recorded some of my friend Todd Harper’s songs with Kim Sueoka, a marvelous local soprano who sings with...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Carei Thomas: The Usual Topic Updated: 2006-04-09 23:00:17 Description: Here is a second selection from this year’s Keys Please to follow Todd’s little musical rattlesnake adventure. This is an improvisation by Carei Thomas, the rattlesnake’s narrator, now on piano. I thought — and h...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Todd Harper: Rattlesnake Song #2 Updated: 2006-03-24 04:03:37 Description: Things don’t look good for me to create more new piano recordings in my home studio in the immediate future, so I’m going to have to stall — but I figure I might at least stall with something good! This is a piece fro...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Brahms Intermezzo 117.2 (remastered) Updated: 2006-03-02 04:53:07 Description: Ahoy there. It’s been a while! I’ve been busy. It’s a sad fact of life that I have bills to pay, and in spite of the tremendous generosity of some of this podcast’s listeners, a whole year’s worth of donati...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD A new audio logo! Updated: 2005-12-10 22:34:22 Description: Sorry for the long hiatus. It’s been a busy time: my latest sabbatical is running to its end, I’m broke, and back to job hunting. So I’ve been having to put aside the music and be all practical lately. Still, I have n...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Song for Lost Things (rough) Updated: 2005-11-16 10:15:29 Description: I’m doing something today that I haven’t done in far too long: sharing a recording of a new composition in progress. I’ve been working for some time on a set of piano pieces, all of them dances in one way or another &...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Chopin Nocturne 15.2 (remastered) Updated: 2005-11-12 10:15:51 Description: I had a request for “MORE CHOPIN!” which made me realize that I’ve been neglecting the poor fellow — and he’s such a favorite of mine! I’ve been working on two new Chopin nocturnes, and I’ll ho...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Schubert Impromptu D899.4, played by Don Betts Updated: 2005-11-06 14:34:23 Description: This is a very familiar piece (to piano aficionados, anyway) — but you’ll find Don’s performance a little refreshingly unfamiliar. It’s not a wild departure from custom, but there’s just a subtle tip in the...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Brahms Intermezzo 116.4 (remastered) Updated: 2005-10-31 06:31:57 Description: This was the first Brahms I ever learned to play. It looked to me like a relatively easy piece, simply because it doesn’t have all that many notes — but I was wrong: never having played Brahms, I didn’t recognize the d...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD In a Perfectly Wounded Sky (remastered) Updated: 2005-10-20 22:13:40 Description: Here’s an older piece of mine, newly remastered. I’ve gone back and forth in the past on whether I like this one, but I like it very much today, so I’m publishing it! The title is based on my mishearing of a Tori Amos...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Schubert D946.1, played by Don Betts Updated: 2005-10-12 21:27:32 Description: I’m a fellow of diverse musical tastes, and there are a great many composers I love who don’t appear in the meager list over on the right of this page. So it’s a delight to post this recording, because I get to add a &...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Chopin Nocturne 55.1 (remastered) Updated: 2005-09-22 21:08:50 Description: Continuing with the work of remastering all my existing home recordings, here’s a Chopin nocturne I posted almost exactly one year ago. It is a subtle, spare thing, and its spareness makes it much more difficult than it sounds. Li...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD |
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