for two pianos, 2016, duration: 10 minutes
The music of Frederic Chopin is most elegant both in terms of expression and in terms of harmonic imagination. I am particularly enamored of the Nocturnes of Opus 27 and the Preludes of Opus 28. Chopin’s gestures seem particularly musical. I wondered about the possibility of combining this musicality with contrapuntal and harmonic textures of my own creation. I began to think about the possibilities and assembled some sketches.
The larger formal structure is;
A measures 1-61 introduction and canons, flowing,
B measures 62-93 slow and suspended
A’ measures 93-110 brief recall of section A
C measures 110-123 very slow
A’’ measures 123-end recall of section A
“Nocturne Canons” is composed for HOCKET, the Los Angeles piano duo.