Sadie Harrison's Impresa Amorosa is named after the 15th-century practice where jousting knights and ladies exchanged love tokens, known as 'impresa amorosa'.
Recording & Production
This recording was made in October 2007 at the Arthur Sykes Rymer Auditorium at the University of York, using a Fazioli piano.
Composition History
Jo Kondo's A Dance for Piano, 'Europeans' was composed very quickly on Christmas Day 1990, almost extemporaneously, directly on music paper.
Performer Biography
Nicky Losseff, the performer on this album, studied at the Menuhin School and the Royal Academy of Music and is a senior lecturer at the University of York's Music Department.
Composer's Artistic Vision
The subtitle 'Europeans' for Jo Kondo's piece comes solely from the fact that the composer was reading Henry James's novel of the same name at the time of composition, with no further connection to its content or structure.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Thomas Simaku's Des pas chromatiques is an homage to Debussy's piano piece Des pas sur la neige, exploring modality and its integration within a chromatic idiom, though without direct quotations.
Composer's Artistic Vision
David Lumsdaine's Six Postcard Pieces are ruminations on gesture, including musical gestures and the physical gestures of hands on the keyboard.
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