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"Sonatra - live​!​" by Michael Gordon

by Lisa Moore, piano

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In 2003 I asked Michael to compose a work for solo piano. "Sonatra" was born. Here is my archival LIVE recording, from the world premiere performance in a NYC concert in May 2004 (tuned in equal temperament). Michael wanted it even faster, like, really really super human player-piano kind of fast. It's unrelenting and unstoppable. I'm offering it here because I'll never get a chance to record it again. Please enjoy.

Michael Gordon writes:
I grew up playing, or miss-playing, the piano. My fear of writing for instruments I can't play is minute in comparison to the fear I have of writing for the piano. But I did finally write this piano piece and I called it Sonatra, less as a tribute to Frank than as an acknowledgment that what I am aiming for is somewhere between sonata and Sinatra.

When I started writing Sonatra I decided that since I would probably only ever write one piano piece in my entire life, I wanted to use all of the keys on the piano and use them often. I constructed long chains or links of major and minor thirds that ceaselessly wind their way up and down the piano. Eventually they start cascading and intersperse with glissandos half the length of the keyboard, sounding to me like the performer has at least four hands.

—Michael Gordon

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released September 12, 2017
Piano played by Lisa Moore
Music composed by Michael Gordon
Recorded live in concert in 2004 NYC
Photo of 'beach driftwood' by Lisa Moore
First Performer/World Premiere by Lisa Moore Merkin Concert Hall, New York, 9 May 2004
Commissioner:
Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center
Publisher Red Poppy/Schirmer

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Lisa Moore New York, New York

Lisa Moore is an Aussie-New Yorker pianist with 10 solo CDs (Cantaloupe, IGM, Tall Poppies, Orange Mountain) & 40 ensemble CDs (Sony, Nonesuch, DG, BMG, New World, ABC Classics, Albany, New Albion, Starkland, Harmonia Mundi). Lisa has performed with London Sinfonietta, Steve Reich Ens, Bang On A Can All-Stars, NYC Ballet, Australian Chamber Orch, Grand Band, Ensemble Signal. ... more

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