SKU: FD.FD0321

ISBN 9790560243214.

Work for solo piano. My snapshots are scribblings in pencil or ink, with a little color, and that's all -Kees van Dongen. This collection of short pieces is neither akin to sketches nor to studies, nor to preludes, nor to variations in the classical meaning of the word. They are like the rough drawings that make up a kind of travel notebook, and as such they demand a piano writing that involves widely varied musical gestures. This multiplicity of very different motifs crates sudden ruptures in the sonic atmosphere. This writing doesn't develop but rather hints at things in order to reach equilibrium between light and deep. A play on variants of the core motifs runs right through across the work. Each piece centers on a motif or a group of motifs in particular that builds the shape of a palindrome.

SKU: BT.LCMLL375

English.

In concert: book 2 contains twelve piano works selected from London College of Music’s ALCM and LLCM Piano syllabus. These works give a snapshot of the huge range of repertoire available to pianists today, spanning nearly three hundred years of music from all over the world. We hope that this collection of works will provide inspiration for building original and creative concert programmes, be it in the exam room, at an audition or a professional recital. Includes an introduction and performance notes from one of the world’s most innovative musicians, Joanna MacGregor — concert pianist, curator, collaborator, Head of Piano at the Royal Academy of Music and Professor of theUniversity of London. Joanna’s distinctive insights into the technical and interpretative aspects of each work are drawn from her own extensive performing experience. As a director of numerous innovative festivals and concert series, she is also uniquely qualified to write about how to build a programme, one of the most creative and important skills for a musician to develop.