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May 13, 2016 - 6:33 AM
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mastadge
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Greenaway's "Reflections of Earth" and "Tapestry of Dreams" from the Disney Millennium Celebration CD used to get quite a lot of play from me, so it's nice to hear that he's got some new work coming out.
John Powell just posted on fb: Gavin Greenaway and I met whilst studying at Trinity College of Music in London. So since 1983 he and I have worked together in one way or another. Sometimes we have written together for performance art pieces, art installation works and even an opera. Sometimes we have written apart; jingles, TV, films and concert works. But a lot of our friendship has been just sitting drinking coffee and bullshitting ideas across a table. Form, structure, the very nature of what music means to us have been discussed at length, knowing that only a trusted friend will not judge.
But both of us have been experimenting with some new solo works recently and I have judged Gavin's latest music to be wonderful. Where as I went off full cocked with giant orchestras, crying tenors and diverging choirs, he has produced a perfectly crafted album of solo piano music that is artfully thoughtful but packed with all the withheld passions of a classic romanticist.
http://www.tenutorecords.com/
Greenaway writes: "This was a return home for me, in more ways than one. The piano was my first instrument and it’s always where I go to when I want to connect most directly with music; my first tentative composition (as a 12 year old student of Junior Trinity College) was for piano; and the piano on the recording, my parents’ Steinway, was the piano I practised on for many hundreds of hours as a teenager."
From the post-minimalist insistence of the first track il falco bianco, via the majestic sur vents solaires and jazz-tinged oiseaux étranges, to the last track ottantotto (featuring prepared piano with 88 table tennis balls) Greenaway will take you on a compelling musical journey.
https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/album/il-falco-bianco/id1098127578?app=itunes
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I listened to three or four tracks on youtube. Got bored, gave up.
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