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In Your Head
New Music for Piano Four Hands

 

Composer: Various
Performed by: Dana Muller and Gary Steigerwalt
Label: Navona Records
navonarecords.com
RRP: £13.99
NV6190
896931004909
Release Date: 12 October 2018


Piano four-hand duo, Dana Muller and Gary Steigerwalt, come together once more for In Your Head, a collection featuring the work of six composers that highlights both fresh compositional talents and earlier successful works...

The compositions showcased on In Your Head span over five decades, with each piece brought to new life by the hands of Dana Muller and Gary Steigerwalt. The album's 16 tracks (1 hr, 10 min, 37 sec) have been carefully chosen to demonstrate a wide range of playing styles and emotional feelings.

The end result sees an interesting blend of approaches not to mention demonstrating the harmony and balance that the two pianists engage in as they take us on a trip through their impressive environment.

If piano music is not to your liking, then you might want to skip this one, but everyone else will find this to be a rich and multi layered release.

Track listing:

Mind Games (2017)
Donald Wheelock, Composer
01. I. High Expectations
02. II. Panic
03. III. Cogitation
04. IV. Reflection
05. V. Abandon

Dreamworlds (2015)
Lewis Spratlan, Composer
06. I. Dreams of a Saint St. Francis of Assisi
07. II. Dreams of a Madman Hitler
08. III. Dreams of a Bureaucrat

Sonata for Piano, Four Hands, Op. 25 (1965)
John LaMontaine, Composer
09. I. Preamble
10. II. Scherzo
11. III. Fugue

Iris (2017)
Daniel Asia, Composer
12. I. Jauntily
13. II. Slow, ethereal
14. III. Impetuously

15. Overture for a Lucid Dream (2017)
Matthew St. Laurent, Composer

16. The Silent Hearth (2018)
David Sanford, Composer

7

Darren Rea

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