Naresh Sohal: Complete Piano Music, Piano Trio

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Konstantinos Destounis
Cristina Anghelescu
Adrian Mantu
Mark Troop
Naresh Sohal

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Composer Biography

Naresh Sohal was the first person of Indian origin to make a successful career as a composer of Western music in the Western world.

Composer Biography

Naresh Sohal's exposure to Western classical music was transformative; he heard Beethoven's Eroica Symphony on All India Radio, which led him to move to Britain in 1962 to become a composer in that tradition.

Compositional Technique

Naresh Sohal often used 'space notation' in his scores, where the duration of notes is decided by the performer based on their visual spacing on the page, rather than traditional metre and bar-lines.

Compositional Technique

Sohal's music often features free atonality, occasional elements of twelve-tone music, and a free approach to form, unconstrained by convention.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Naresh Sohal's music is characterized by mysticism, raising questions about human existence and aiming for a connection with the divine, often drawing on Vedantic thought.

Cultural Impact

Beyond classical works, Naresh Sohal composed music for TV documentaries, a French feature film, an album of North Indian ghazal songs, and film songs for Indian director Vijay Anand.