piano's

The work artfully juxtaposes two complex, quasi-symphonic percussion instruments piano and gamelan ensemble, East and West each making fluent-sounding attempts at adopting the accent of the other, with the piano's unusual tuning giving a quirky tinge to its tones, a slight acridity to would-be octaves.

Music review: Post-Classical Ensemble recognizes the work of Lou Harrison 2011

The first movement's Impressionistic landscape featured a piquant, upward soaring melody with a series of falling thirds from a protagonist oboe, flitting above a feather-bed of sustained string harmonies and bass piano, and punctuated with a walking-like figuration in the piano's treble register, all becoming more urgent toward its close.

Rodney Punt: World Premiere by Peter Golub at Chamber Music Palisades Rodney Punt 2010

The first movement's Impressionistic landscape featured a piquant, upward soaring melody with a series of falling thirds from a protagonist oboe, flitting above a feather-bed of sustained string harmonies and bass piano, and punctuated with a walking-like figuration in the piano's treble register, all becoming more urgent toward its close.

Rodney Punt: World Premiere by Peter Golub at Chamber Music Palisades Rodney Punt 2010

The first movement's Impressionistic landscape featured a piquant, upward soaring melody with a series of falling thirds from a protagonist oboe, flitting above a feather-bed of sustained string harmonies and bass piano, and punctuated with a walking-like figuration in the piano's treble register, all becoming more urgent toward its close.

Rodney Punt: World Premiere by Peter Golub at Chamber Music Palisades Rodney Punt 2010

The first movement's Impressionistic landscape featured a piquant, upward soaring melody with a series of falling thirds from a protagonist oboe, flitting above a feather-bed of sustained string harmonies and bass piano, and punctuated with a walking-like figuration in the piano's treble register, all becoming more urgent toward its close.

Rodney Punt: World Premiere by Peter Golub at Chamber Music Palisades Rodney Punt 2010

The first movement's Impressionistic landscape featured a piquant, upward soaring melody with a series of falling thirds from a protagonist oboe, flitting above a feather-bed of sustained string harmonies and bass piano, and punctuated with a walking-like figuration in the piano's treble register, all becoming more urgent toward its close.

Rodney Punt: World Premiere by Peter Golub at Chamber Music Palisades Rodney Punt 2010

On his instructions, Steinway's chief technician shaved the piano's hammers so they would be even lighter, and rearranged some parts so that a single note could be repeated in an almost machine-gun-like fashion.

When Two Makes Perfect Byron Janis 2011

The piano's action was so light it was hard to control.

When Two Makes Perfect Byron Janis 2011

But once he discovered the piano's nuanced expressiveness—something a harpsichord, with its twangy, plucked-string sound and unchanging volume could not attain—he was hooked.

New Work, New Instrument Stuart Isacoff 2011

The first movement's Impressionistic landscape featured a piquant, upward soaring melody with a series of falling thirds from a protagonist oboe, flitting above a feather-bed of sustained string harmonies and bass piano, and punctuated with a walking-like figuration in the piano's treble register, all becoming more urgent toward its close.

Rodney Punt: World Premiere by Peter Golub at Chamber Music Palisades Rodney Punt 2010