Some of William Bolcom’s earliest and most complex piano solos are now available in an excellent volume featuring new engravings and explanatory and programmatic notes by the composer.
Dream Music No. 1 & Fantasy-Sonata
Two of William Bolcom’s earliest and most complex piano solos are now available in this excellent volume featuring new engravings and explanatory and programmatic notes by the composer. Fantasy-Sonata (1961) exhibits a youthful enthusiasm for the European triumvirate of Boulez-Berio-Stockhausen dating from his period of study in Paris, as well as an abiding fondness for Charles Ives. Dream Music No. 1 (1965) expands on this influence from a time when Bolcom was a pianist at Pierre Boulez’s Domaine Musical in Paris
Composed in 1960 while Bolcom was studying in Paris, Night Pieces is dedicated to composer David Chaitkin (1938-2011).
All above works were previously issued on MarksPrint, and both may be heard on a forthcoming Naxos recording of never-before-recorded Bolcom piano works featuring pianists Ursula Oppens and Christopher Taylor.