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score available from Wise Music program note This short work for solo piano was commissioned by Vanessa Sharman for an album of new music taking the idea of a lullaby as a starting or departure point. The title of this work – Entering the Universe of Dreams – suggests a doorway into the subconscious, fantasy, … Read more
Spotify recordings available Satellite Mapping Complete works for solo piano (1989–2014) Amir Farid Move Records, MD3402, 2016 800 Million Heartbeats Sarah Watkins ABC Classics CD+score available Firestarters II Emma Sayers Promethean Editions score available from Promethean Editions program note The title of this piece refers to the use of contrary motion, which defines its thematic … Read more
Spotify recordings available Satellite Mapping Complete works for solo piano (1989–2014) Amir Farid Move Records, MD3402, 2016 Veiled Virtuosity Amir Farid, piano Move Records score available from Wise Music program note This piece was commissioned to commemorate the life of Daniel McCluskey, who died suddenly in January of 2006. He was an accomplished law and … Read more
Spotify recordings available Satellite Mapping Complete works for solo piano (1989–2014) Amir Farid Move Records, MD3402, 2016 First Light Yvonne Lau, piano Fellowship of Australian Composers Oneness Diana Blom, piano Wirripang score available from Promethean Editions program note Around 1997, I started thinking more deeply about the music of composers such as Chopin – effectually … Read more
Spotify recording available Mercurial Patrick Lawrence, Hildy Essex (pianos) Reed Music score available from Wise Music program note The title of this piece deliberately separates ‘forever’ into its two constituent parts: not because the meaning is radically different, but to underline its implications. We use the word in phrases like ‘forever and a day’ which … Read more
YouTube (The End of Winter) recordings available Satellite Mapping Complete works for solo piano (1989–2014) Amir Farid Move Records, MD3402, 2016 Mercurial Patrick Lawrence, piano Reed Music score available from Wise Music program note These Four Thoughts (2001/04) reveal the use of solo piano as a direct medium for artistic expression but also as a … Read more
YouTube (The Petrarch Ascension) recording available Satellite Mapping Complete works for solo piano (1989–2014) Amir Farid Move Records, MD3402, 2016 score available from Wise Music program note i: Barcarole Allusion ii: Schubert: 1828, an introspection iii: The Petrarch Ascension These 3 pieces for solo piano re-interpret harmonic progressions taken from great classics of 19th Century … Read more