The Music Post: Piano Weekly

A sextet prelude, composed in lockdown by yours truly, recorded and synced with the members of Kassia Music, and Bach's Contrapunctus 11 from the Art of Fugue.

Today would have been my former teacher's birthday. Today, I share a Prelude and Fugue composed in her honor, plus an elegy for those affected by the pandemic

A prelude by me, inspired by Gabriela Montero, followed by a close look at the hidden rhythms in one of Bach's most famous pieces, the Prelude in C from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1.

A prelude by me, followed by a conversation with composer Marc Chan, and his fugue on the Disney theme "My Own Home" from the Jungle Book.

Ragtime toccata #2, composed and recorded in 2019

The first Prelude from Shostakovich's set of 24 Preludes and Fugues

Last movement from a 2019 Suite in Neo-Baroque style

Studio recording of the Pastoral Etude, Op. 40, #6 by Nikolai Kapustin

It's been a rough couple of days for me, for the country, for the world. A lament in music.

From the extreme of jubilance to the extreme of melancholy and frustration, to match my dire mood after Monday's news. J.S. Bach's Prelude and Fugue in C# Minor from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, recorded live in performance from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in 2019.