Greetings!

PTE closes out the month of September by celebrating National Piano Month with a taste of numerous musical genres featuring the instrument that Andrés Segovia described as, " a monster that screams when you touch its teeth" or as author Maria Cristina noted, “The piano keys are black and white but they sound like a million colors in your mind.”

That being said, I'm particularly fond of Thelonius Monk's observation, “The piano ain’t got no wrong notes.”

Enjoy!

Joel

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9-28-24 PTE Playlist: Celebrating National Piano Month

• Battle for Britain / Loneliest Guy / Disco King - Mike Garson - The Bowie Variations for Piano - Reference Recordings (2011)
• https://referencerecordings.com/recording/the-bowie-variations-garson/

• Book Four: Twelfth Station / Thirteenth Station / Fourteenth Station - composer: Ian Wilson / piano: Matthew Schellhorn - Stations - Diatribe Recordings (2017)
• https://diatriberecords.bandcamp.com/album/stations

• Sewing In Thin Air - composer: Yi-Ting Lu / piano: Lam Wong - An Unopened Seashell - New Focus Recordings (2024)
• https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/an-unopened-seashell

• Concierto De Aranjuez/Spain - Chick Corea / Hiromi - Duet - Stretch Records (2008)
• https://chickcorea.com/discography/duet-2/

• That Day (2020) - In Memory of George Floyd - piano: Clipper Erickson / composer: Laurie Altman - From Somewhere - Navona Records (2024)
• https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6635/

• Etudes No. 1 & 3 - Petridisch - Piano Etudes - digital release (2022)
• https://petridisch.bandcamp.com/album/piano-etudes

• Shattered Apparitions of the Western Wind (2013) - piano: Kathleen Supové / composer - electronics: Annie Gosfield - The Debussy Effect - New Focus Recordings (2016)
• https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-debussy-effect

• N + R (Love Is Friends) - Cecil Taylor - Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! - MPS (1981)

• Wichita Sutra Vortex - piano/composer: Philip Glass - Solo Piano - CBS Records (1989)
• https://philipglass.com/

• Portraits of the Dead: Billy Strayhorn - Joseph Benzola - Portraits of the Dead Complete: 1995​-​2022 - Amanita Music (2022)
• https://josephbenzola.bandcamp.com/album/portraits-of-the-dead-complete-1995-2022

• What Next? - Joel Krutt - What Next? - self-release (2003)
• https://soundcloud.com/joelkru/sets/what-next

• Incantatie IV: Sections 78-120 - The Piano Ensemble (Irene Russo, Fred Oldenberg, Sandra & Jeroen van Veen) / composer: Simeon Ten Holt - Complete Multiple Piano Works - Brilliant Classics (2005)
• https://www.brilliantclassics.com/articles/t/ten-holt-complete-multiple-piano-works/