While the fugues on this album have expositions, episodes, and stretto sections, they diverge from the strict forms of the Baroque period.
Composer Biography
Steve Perillo, the composer, is also the president of the international tour company, Perillo Tours.
Recording & Production
The composer believes that new technology, which allows composers to render their piano compositions precisely as intended, would have been embraced by every composer in history.
Composition History
All the preludes and fugues on this album were composed in the late 1970s while the composer, Steve Perillo, was a student at Boston University.
Instruments
An acoustic grand piano is considered superior to sampled pianos because its 230 strings create an almost infinite complexity of sympathetic vibrations off the soundboard.
Composer's Artistic Vision
The composer, Steve Perillo, believes that if you have one life to live, you should write the kind of music you like.
Composer Biography
Steve Perillo's composition studies were almost entirely under the guidance of David del Tredici, a composer who also wrote fully tonal music, at Boston University.
