The album "Seria Ludo" came about after Paul Sánchez and Graham Lynch, the composer, began corresponding following a premiere of Lynch's "Sappho Fragments" song cycle.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Graham Lynch's music often explores the distinction between the 'seen' world (city as spectacle, countryside as apparition) and the 'interior' world, positioning his works on a spectrum between these experiences.
Performer Biography
Paul Sánchez, one of the pianists on this album, is a recording artist with nine CD releases as of 2021, and his compositions have been featured on Soundset Recordings and Albany labels.
Performer Biography
Albert Kim, the other pianist on this album, is a founding member of TableTop Opera and the San Francisco International Piano Festival.
Performer Biography
Paul Sánchez is a co-founder of the San Francisco International Piano Festival, the Charleston Chamber Music Intensive, and Dakota Sky Foundation.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Graham Lynch's "White Books" series, including "White Book 3" on this album, was initially inspired by the harpsichord ordres of François Couperin, which are short keyboard pieces likened to miniature tone poems.
Compositional Technique
Graham Lynch's piano writing is highly detailed, with complex layering, conflicting articulations, and intricate finger substitutions, as exemplified in "Seria Ludo."
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