Touches & Traces – Bernstein & Dun Piano Music by Warren Lee (CD)

Composers:Leonard Bernstein & Tan Dun

Piano:Warren Lee

Both Leonard Bernstein and Chinese-born American composer Tan Dun have used the piano for collections of shorter and/or occasional pieces, along with larger works that were written to exploit particular aspects of piano technique. Bernsteins piano output is mainly comprised of characterful, subtle miniatures written, over four decades, as groups of anniversaries.Toucheswas composed as a test piece for the Sixth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Tan Duns piano music was composed at key junctures in his career and is both evocative and propulsive,Dew-Drop-Fallsbeing one of his most intricate and ethereal sound pictures.

Bernstein, Leonard
4 Anniversaries
1. No. 1. For Felicia Montealegre 02:19
2. No. 2. For Johnny Mehegan 00:43
3. No. 3. For David