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Perspectives - Piano Works, Vol. 2 / Donald Betts

Betts
Release Date: 07/26/2011 
Label:  Centaur Records   Catalog #: 3139   Spars Code: DDD 
Composer:  Donald Betts
Performer:  Donald Betts
Number of Discs: 1 
Recorded in: Stereo 
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Notes and Editorial Reviews

"Donald Betts’ proven abilities and long experience as a soloist enable him as a composer to speak the piano’s language with a natural expressiveness and intensity and to develop the instrument’s idioms imaginatively along 20th century lines...In my view these compositions occupy a place of their own in the repertory of 20th century keyboard music." - Henry Brant, Composer "Donald Betts’ proven abilities and long experience as a soloist enable him as a composer to speak the piano’s language with a natural expressiveness and intensity and to develop the instrument’s idioms imaginatively along 20th century lines...In my view these compositions occupy a place of their own in the repertory of 20th century keyboard music." - Henry Brant, Composer Read less

Works on This Recording

1.
Of Mingled Voices and Ancient Worlds by Donald Betts
Performer:  Donald Betts (Piano)
Period: 20th/21st Century 
Written: USA 
2.
Homage to Florestan and Eusebius: Twelve Fantasy Moments from a Schumann Motif by Donald Betts
Performer:  Donald Betts (Piano)
Period: 20th/21st Century 
Written: USA 
3.
The Pegasus Sightings: Five Views of the Winged Horse by Donald Betts
Performer:  Donald Betts (Piano)
Period: 20th/21st Century 
Written: USA 
4.
Transformations by Donald Betts
Performer:  Donald Betts (Piano)
Period: 20th/21st Century 
Written: USA 
5.
Twelve Brief Reasons Why: A Series of Aphorisms by Donald Betts
Performer:  Donald Betts (Piano)
Period: 20th Century 
Written: USA 

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