SKU: PO.PE014
ISBN 9781877218149.
Ideal for pianists looking for a work heavy in bravura, Sepuluh Jari is an exhilarating toccata incorporating non-Western styles. Drawing on the Indian saraswati scale and Balinese pelog scale for its harmonic material, Farr creates cascading scalar passages that eventually arrive at joyous declamatory moments. Its challenging passages require swift finger work, with insistent pulsed material is interspersed with elastic rushes of energy and brief snatches of stillness and reflection.
Idea l for pianists looking for a work heavy in bravura, Sepuluh Jari is an exhilarating toccata incorporating non-Western styles. Drawing on the Indian saraswati scale and Balinese pelog scale for its harmonic material, Farr creates cascading scalar passages that eventually arrive at joyous declamatory moments. Its challenging passages require swift finger work, with insistent pulsed material is interspersed with elastic rushes of energy and brief snatches of stillness and reflection.
SKU: PO.PE128
ISBN 9781877564284. 30.5 x 22 cm inches.
Balinese Pieces (1996-2003) is a set of three piano works influenced by gamelan music of Indonesia. This set includes Sepuluh Jari (ten fingers), Tentang Cara Gamelan (on the technique of gamelan), and Jangan Lupa (dont forget). Farr perfectly captures the exciting rhythms and beautiful sonorities of this gamelan music and combines it with sounds and textures reminiscent of French impressionism. His writing for piano in these pieces is virtuosic with fast melodic passages and complex rhythms. The three pieces can be performed together as a set or separately as stand-alone works. Balinese Pieces is sure to be a highlight in any professional piano recital programme.
