Sentence examples for recent piano from inspiring English sources

The more recent piano works are shorter, more lyrical works, often with amusing juxtapositions.

May 25 2011 May 26 201111 Joseph Rubenstein's invigorating festival of new and recent piano music has returned for a sixth season.

As with the recent piano puzzle, it was cheering to see chess promoted from mere notation (R, Q, B, K and the rest) to full-on theme.

From the start of the band's first set, which packed the club, there was a sense of unconflicted affinity with recent piano trio protocols, especially as defined by Brad Mehldau.

A recent piano recital by Misha Dichter at Carnegie Hall, for example, was marred when a cougher disrupted a particularly absorbing account of Schubert's great Sonata in B flat (D. 960) precisely at the work's most sublime moment.

Last year Joseph Rubenstein, a pianist and composer devoted to new music, assembled a few like-minded colleagues for the first Key to the Future festival, a pair of concerts in which recent piano music held the spotlight.

Sandwiched between favorites like "Both Sides Now" and "Who Knows Where the Time Goes?" were unfamiliar numbers like Jimmy Webb's "Campo de Encino," Ricky Ian Gordon's "Horse With Wings" and Ms. Collins's own "In the Twilight," a recent piano-based ballad written for her mother.

Kanoniuk likened it to Prince's recent intimate "piano and microphone" tour, which kicked off in Australia.

The performance on disc, simply put, is a landmark among recent Bach piano recordings, one of the best versions of the "Goldbergs" ever, immaculate, crystalline and flowing.

At a recent "Così" piano rehearsal, he helped Ms. Phillips, 32, navigate the vocal fireworks in the aria "Come scoglio," to make sure she had time to let a high C ring out after a series of fast runs.

"Live in Marciac," his new album and concert film on Nonesuch (two CDs, one DVD), chronicles a recent solo piano concert, with his originals brushing up against songs by Radiohead, Nirvana and the Beatles.