2 Waltzes and a Nocturne

2 Waltzes and a Nocturne is my first entry in the Modern Classics Collection (Romantic Series). Each piece employs techniques of the era to embody an emotionally significant event of my life. As such, each is unique and can be performed on their own or with other similar or contrasting pieces. However, when all three are played in sequence they function as a single multimovement work that is, in effect, a musical portrait of myself and of the events that shaped me.

ISMN (Collection) 979-0-60044-011-5, ISMN (Individual) 979-0-60044-012-2, 979-0-60044-013-9, 979-0-60044-014-6; ISWC T-330.960.037-7, T-330.960.030-0, T-330.960.064-0

GENERAL NOTES ON STYLE: All should be played using the same basic guidelines you employ when performing a similar work written during the Romantic era with 2 major exceptions. If any idiomatic choice, no matter how academically revered, interferes with the performer's musical expression of the piece in an objectively significant way, or makes the piece less accessible for the modern audience; that choice should be disregarded.

Program Notes | Performance Tips (2 Waltzes and a Nocturne)

Waltz 1 in B Major

Program Notes On the surface, this piece evokes the roller-coaster of emotions experienced when one falls head-over heels in love. This fact (and the title) may give the impression that this work is solely about an adolescent crush, but for the composer, the subject matter is much broader in scope....

Waltz 2 in C Minor

Program Notes Where Primo Amore evokes the immeasurable joy one experiences when a dream is born, Cinque Fasi (Five Stages) embodies the soul-crushing heartbreak that occurs when that dream is forcibly ripped away. We may try to deny the undeniable. We may take turns raging against and pleading with the...

Nocturne 1 in Db Major

Program Notes When I was searching for the right title for this work the sentiment expressed by Dylan Thomas in his famous line “Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” struck an emotional chord with me. If the Primo Amore and Cinque Fasi can be viewed as allegories of...

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