Contains:
"En Face Du Miroir (Facing The Mirror)"
- taken from the Isadar solo piano complete collection, "Red" (also available on SMP)

Sounds like: Keith Jarrett, Bill Evans, Vince Guaraldi, Liz Story, George Winston, early Windham Hill solo piano artists

Transcribed by: David Shenton ( https://www.shentonmusic.com/ ) verbatim to the sound recording

Album & Songbook Review by: Kathy Parsons

Red is pianist/composer Isadar?s genre-defying tenth solo piano album and seventeenth independent release from the past twenty years. It is also the third installment in a trilogy of solo piano albums released in the past year - Reconstructed, a Will Ackerman-produced anthology of some of Isadar?s best piano pieces; O Christmas, Isadar?s second piano Christmas album; and now Red, a bittersweet love-themed album that took seven years to produce and that consists of the first new original solo piano material Isadar has released in more than ten years.

I have been reviewing and thoroughly enjoying Isadar?s releases since his second piano album, 1999?s Active Imagination, which still stands as one of my favorite recordings. Even though I have been a big fan for many years, I was still blown away by Isadar?s live performance in my house concert series in July 2010. The man has magic fingers and an extraordinary piano touch that are perfectly suited to express his imaginative, distinctive, and emotionally powerful music.

Isadar is also a singer/songwriter and an electronic musician who creates the music videos for much of his music, dramatizing the stories that inspired the songs. I will always be partial to Isadar?s piano albums because his voice and vision are unique, incorporating jazz, new age, pop, and classical stylings into a musical language all his own.

Red opens with ?Broken Valentine,? a free-flowing expression of heartbreak and the broad range of emotions that go with it, alternating between grief and confusion then shifting to perhaps anger and resignation - a great beginning. The title track conveys the freedom of an improvisation while weaving together a variety of upbeat themes. ?The Man Who Broke My Heart? is energetic and in constant swirling motion - also very free and from deep within. ?The Stairwell? is darker and much more mysterious, overflowing with Isadar?s intriguing accented rhythms and picturesque compositional style. My favorite track is the almost nine-minute ?Letting Go,? a piece that intertwines a series of musical vignettes into a powerful, colorful musical collage. I love the way Isadar seamlessly goes from flowing and smooth to a bouncy jazz style to high drama without missing a beat. Great stuff! ?En Face Du Miroir (Facing the Mirror)? is much lighter, with fingers dancing nimbly around the piano keyboard. The album closes with ?Blood ... Thicker Than Water,? again a combination of changing themes that could well be a musical family portrait - different personalities working separately and as a unit, bound together by the unseen ties that keep families together through thick and thin.

Isadar has created another piano masterpiece that should be more widely heard than his previous releases due to the success of Reconstructed. I hope so, anyway! Red is available from isadar.com, Amazon, iTunes, and CD Baby. Very highly recommended!

Isadar?s Red: Solo Piano Sheet Music Collection is a note-for-note transcription of all seven pieces from Isadar?s 2013 CD/download release by the same name. The music was transcribed by David Shenton (shentonmusic.com) with clear, concise notation that includes dynamics, pedaling and metronome settings.

Isadar is an amazing pianist with a style all his own, so this isn?t a book that most pianists will be able to just sit down and play. It will take some work and attention to detail to get this music right, but it will be well worth the effort. Having the recording for handy reference would be a big help.

Rhythms are often complex and syncopated, but are usually repeated within each piece, so once you have them, the rest will follow fairly easily. There are only a few chords with a reach of more than an octave and none of the key signatures are terribly difficult. The layout and spacing of the music is excellent, and the paper stock is a bright white 9?x12? format with a stapled binding.

If you enjoy listening to Isadar?s music, I?m sure you will enjoy playing it, too! This songbook is available from isadar.com. Recommended!

The songs with their key signatures and the number of pages is listed below:

Broken Valentine - C minor (3 flats) - 4 pages
Red - A minor (0 sharps or flats) - 5 pages
The Man Who Broke My Heart - A minor - 6 pages
The Stairwell - F# minor (3 sharps) - 7 pages
Letting Go - F minor (4 flats) / C minor (3 flats) - 8 pages
En Face Du Miroir (Facing the Mirror) - Ab (4 flats) / F minor/ Bb minor (5 flats) / Db (5 flats) - 7 pages
Blood ... Thicker Than Water - A Minor/ C (0) / F (1 flat) - 7 pages

Isadar is an artist on both Enlightened Piano Radio & Whisperings Solo Piano Radio, the latter featuring some of today's biggest names in solo piano music, including Ludovico Einaudi, David Nevue, Brian Crain, Kevin Kern, Robin Spielberg, Michele McLaughlin, Philip Wesley and over 300 more...

Also available as sheet music in physical songbooks, digital downloads, as well as software for Yamaha Disklavier player-pianos.

For more information, visit his website at: http://www.isadar.com

The fifth of a series of five volumes that are geared toward smaller lever harps with a bass range that goes to the G which is one and � octaves below middle C. Volume five includes songs for Lent, Easter and Pentecost. These tunes have the added benefit of being arranged in keys that are accessible to most vocal ranges, which is especially helpful when playing along with congregational singing. Lever changes are indicated with diamond shaped notes. Some tunes have no lever changes, some have a lot. The left hand in a few of the tunes is quite active. 75 tunes, in all.
Table of Contents:
In the Hour of Trial, We Give Immortal Praise, Soldiers of Christ, Arise, How Firm a Foundation, Must Jesus Bear the Cross Alone, Lord Jesus Christ, My Life, My Light, Near to the Heart of God, Jesus, I My Cross Have Taken, Out of the Depths I Cry to Thee, Lenten Hymn, Break Thou the Bread of Life, O Love, How Deep, How Broad, How High, Here, O My Lord, I See Thee Face to Face, Tell Me the Story of Jesus, Forty Days and Forty Nights, Hail, Thou Once Despised Jesus, O Day of Rest and Gladness, Sing Praise to God Who Reigns Above, Wake, Awake, for Night Is Flying, The Lord Jehovah Reigns, Come, Thou Almighty King, Day by Day and with Each Passing Moment, I'll Praise My Maker While I've Breath, Ah, Holy Jesus, According to Thy Gracious Word, All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name, Jesus, Priceless Treasure, Before Jehovah's Awful Throne, There Is a Balm in Gilead, O Love That Will Not Let Me Go, Bread of Heaven, on Thee We Feed, Awake, My Soul, and With the Sun, The Heavens Declare Thy Glory, Lord, O the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus, Come, Christians, Join to Sing, A Wonderful Savior Is Jesus My Lord, I Am Thine, O Lord, I Am His, and He Is Mine, Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus, Amazing Grace!, Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross, Jesus Paid It All, There Is a Green Hill Far Away, Were You There?, Behold the Savior of Mankind, At Calvary, Come, Ye Faithful, Raise the Strain, The Old Rugged Cross, In the Cross of Christ I Glory, All Glory, Laud and Honor, O Sacred Head, Now Wounded, And Can It Be That I Should Gain?, The Day of Resurrection, Go To Dark Gethsemane, Hosanna, Loud Hosanna, Jesus Lives, and So Shall I, Christ, the Lord Is Risen Today, Bread of the World, in Mercy Broken, When I Survey the Wondrous Cross, Cross of Jesus, Cross of Sorrow, The Head That Once Was Crowned, My Savior's Love, The Strife Is O'er, The Battle Done, Christ Arose!, Never Further than Thy Cross, Beneath the Cross of Jesus, Let Us Break Bread Together, Alas! and Did My Savior Bleed?, Christ Jesus Lay in Death's Strong Bands, What Wondrous Love Is This?, Jesus Christ Is Risen Today, Loved With Everlasting Love, Low in the Grave He Lay, O Sons and Daughters, Let Us Sing, Welcome, Happy Morning