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Arrangements and Variations for Digital Piano by Gordon Green
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11 tracks | 61 minutes
Released Nov 2005
on Centaur Records
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Imaginative and varied transcriptions for computer-controlled digital piano, like Conlon Nancarrow, but more familiar.
Bio / Background
Like a modern-day Nancarrow, Gordon Green takes advantage of technology, in this case, computer-generated MIDI sequences, to create torrents of piano sound that ten human fingers alone could not produce. Because Gordon's keyboard, a Yamaha Clavinova, is so realistic-sounding, and because Green is so tasteful in his handling of the material, the effect of this music is uncanny. There are giddy moments when the listener is bombarded with relentless waves of notes, but there are many passages when the effect is quite subtle. Remember the monster piano concerts a few years ago, featuring Gottschalk arrangements of potboilers for a dozen or so pianists? Green achieves a similar dense texture, but even if the recording engineers for the Gottschalk project were able to capture a less muddy sound (what a Herculean task they had!), I doubt the result would have been quite so elegant as what Green produces.
It helps immensely that Green is a skillful, even inspired composer.
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