The album features a diverse array of keyboard and percussion instruments, including prepared piano, celesta, toy piano, tubular bells, and almglocken, creating unique sound worlds.
Performer Biography
Aiyun Huang, a percussionist and conductor on this album, was the First Prize and Audience Award winner at the 2002 Geneva International Music Competition and has premiered over a hundred new works.
Composition History
The five works on this album were composed by Chris Paul Harman between 2006 and 2013, showcasing his focus on keyboard and percussion instruments during this period.
Compositional Technique
Chris Paul Harman's compositions on this album reconfigure existing musical materials—pitch, rhythm, and gesture—from works by Bach and Schumann, while maintaining varying degrees of similarity to the originals.
Performer Biography
MeiYi Foo, the pianist on tracks 1 and 8, has been praised as a "pianist to watch" by BBC Radio 3 and a "rising star" by International Piano, and won the Grand Prix Maria Callas in 2008.
Composer's Artistic Vision
The album's title, "After JSB-RS," refers to Johann Sebastian Bach and Robert Schumann, whose pre-existent music serves as "source material" for most of composer Chris Paul Harman's works since the mid-1990s.
Recording & Production
This album contains world premiere recordings of all the featured works by Chris Paul Harman.
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