FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 1:19:49 |185 Mb
Classical, Instrumental
In 2015, composer Michael Zev Gordon took up the idea of writing musical diary entries, which subsequently spawned this ongoing series of small pieces for solo piano. With most written in a single day, with only minor subsequent refinements, Gordon beautifully captures a feeling, a nuance, an image and, as is the nature of a diary, often with personal associations. Cellist Joseph Houston beautifully captures Gordon’s reoccurring themes of the bitter-sweet waltz, unwavering stillness, elegiac simplicity, folk-like dances and fleeting brilliance.
Tracklist
1. Diary Pieces 2016: I. Before Playing Bach (0:54)
2. Diary Pieces 2016: II. A Still Moment (0:45)
3. Diary Pieces 2016: III. Ferragosto (0:23)
4. Diary Pieces 2016: IV. A Hoopoe Lands in Front of Me (0:31)
5. Diary Pieces 2016: V. Invention (0:46)
6. Diary Pieces 2016: VI. Distance (2:24)
7. Diary Pieces 2016: VII. After Playing Bach (0:58)
8. Diary Pieces 2018: I. Summer Waltz No. 2 (1:00)
9. Diary Pieces 2018: II. Butterflies (0:22)
10. Diary Pieces 2018: III. Ferragosto in campagna (1:28)
11. Diary Pieces 2018: IV. Folkish (0:31)
12. Diary Pieces 2018: V. Gondolalied (2:10)
13. Diary Pieces 2018: VI. Invention (1:15)
14. Diary Pieces 2018: VII. Between New Year and Yom Kippur (1:58)
15. Diary Pieces 2019, Set 1: I. May Day 1 (1:19)
16. Diary Pieces 2019, Set 1: II. May Day 2 (2:00)
17. Diary Pieces 2019, Set 1: III. Flower (1:19)
18. Diary Pieces 2019, Set 1: IV. Dondolo (1:01)
19. Diary Pieces 2019, Set 1: V. A Moment of Jazz (1:01)
20. Diary Pieces 2019, Set 1: VI. Always Near (1:08)
21. Diary Pieces 2019, Set 1: VII. Last Day (1:54)
22. Diary Pieces 2019, Set 2: I. Held Up (1:08)
23. Diary Pieces 2019, Set 2: II. Another Epitaph (1:39)
24. Diary Pieces 2019, Set 2: III. Invention for Jamie (1:11)
25. Diary Pieces 2019, Set 2: IV. Sfumatore (2:13)
26. Diary Pieces 2019, Set 2: V. Simple Song (0:33)
27. Diary Pieces 2019, Set 2: VI. Judah Halevi (2:26)
28. Diary Pieces 2019, Set 2: VII. Long, Long Ago (2:42)
29. Diary Pieces 2020: I. 75th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz (23rd January) (0:54)
30. Diary Pieces 2020: II. Locked-down, Opened up (1:50)
31. Diary Pieces 2020: III. Wild Raspberries in Queen’s Wood (1:08)
32. Diary Pieces 2020: IV. This One for Jacob (2:10)
33. Diary Pieces 2020: V. For Mum (2:03)
34. Diary Pieces 2020: VI. Darkening (0:32)
35. Diary Pieces 2020: VII. First day at Castellucia (2:26)
36. Diary Pieces 2021, Set 1: I. Slow Fade (0:57)
37. Diary Pieces 2021, Set 1: II. Folksong (1:32)
38. Diary Pieces 2021, Set 1: III. Apollo (1:41)
39. Diary Pieces 2021, Set 1: IV. Slow Waltz (1:20)
40. Diary Pieces 2021, Set 1: V. As If Floating (0:44)
41. Diary Pieces 2021, Set 1: VI. 1564 (3:03)
42. Diary Pieces 2021, Set 1: VII. White Roses, September Morning Sun, My Son Leaving Home (1:14)
43. Diary Pieces 2021, Set 2: I. Oxford Blues for Josh (3:12)
44. Diary Pieces 2021, Set 2: II. Once More Raspberries in Queen’s Wood (0:54)
45. Diary Pieces 2021, Set 2: III. Song for Joe (1:18)
46. Diary Pieces 2021, Set 2: IV. Fugato per Ferragosto (1:38)
47. Diary Pieces 2021, Set 2: V. In memoriam Jane and Tony (0:42)
48. Diary Pieces 2021, Set 2: VI. Remembering Louis (1:39)
49. Diary Pieces 2021, Set 2: VII. Into the Distance (1:34)
50. Diary Pieces 2022: I. Fauré (1:13)
51. Diary Pieces 2022: II. Open-Hearted (for Andy) (0:38)
52. Diary Pieces 2022: III. Mancino (2:02)
53. Diary Pieces 2022: IV. After Icarus (1:16)
54. Diary Pieces 2022: V. Still Settling (1:54)
55. Diary Pieces 2022: VI. Es ist gewisslich an der Zeit (1:16)
56. Diary Pieces 2022: VII. Simplicity (2:23)
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