#3055: Ambitious Solo Piano Works

For this New Sounds, we'll hear new music for solo piano, including Michael Byron's monumental work, written for the brave pianist Joseph Kubera - the exotic and long-form "Dreamers Of Pearl." From it, we’ll hear the second part, "A Bird Revealing the Unknown to the Sky." Also, we’ll visit Michael Harrison's "Revelation," a major work for harmonic piano in the alternate tuning system known as "just intonation." Plus, hear selections from the "Time-Curve Preludes," a huge post-minimalist work by William Duckworth. There is also a short work for starters by Francois Couturier, "Un jour si blanc," inspired by a film-maker Andrei Tarkovsky, and the poem, "A White Day." "Un jour si blanc" is the title track from a new ECM recording of solo piano pieces that tip their hat to Bach, Debussy, or old jazz standards.

PROGRAM #3055, works for solo piano (First aired on 3/25/2010)