SKU: BT.SOLDES1014
SKU: HL.49018964
ISBN 9790001169325. UPC: 841886014350.
'Circle of Life' was commissioned for the International Piano Competition of the Wiesbaden Music Academy. At its centre is a Toccata which can also be played separately. In contrast, with regard to its use in piano programmes, it also has an Adagio which makes this piece a rather interesting cyclic work: Toccata, as 'vis vitalis', expresses the ecstatic feeling of spring through it's yearning and poetic nature: the music of youth. The adagio, 'Die Kunst der Ruhe', on the other hand, is a Zen exercise for piano, expressing infinity, tranquility and timelessness. It is a music of closure, of age.
SKU: TO.7130-2
ISBN 9790201536804.
SKU: IM.3928
SKU: HL.14011732
ISBN 9780853607441. UPC: 884088433628. 9.0x12.0x0.123 inches.
These extended and quite complex pieces were composed during the second half of 1986, and the first performance was given by the composer on 21 November 1987. The first piece is darkly intense, No.2 is a playful and rather sardonic Scherzo with two distinct ideas, and is followed without a break by No.3, an extended slow piece. No.4 is a headlong toccata with a contrasting lyrical second theme and the jazz element here is quite strong.
SKU: CU.EC4736
SKU: HL.49006513
ISBN 9790001070690. 9.0x11.75x0.568 inches.