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Sound Sketches by Graham Lynch Graham Lynch : Sound Sketches.
 Lyrical and dazzling miniatures.

These Sound Sketches pieces were composed to give early and intermediate level pianists the change to engage with a rich and evocative harmonic sound world. As much of the easier piano repertoire centres on the baroque and classical periods Graham wanted to write pieces that drew on the language of later composers, including Debussy and Satie, as well as tango, jazz, and other idioms.

The Sound Sketches series contains many varied pieces, each one opening up an imaginative world of colours and textures that are a delight to both listen to and to play. The music is reflective, fun, dazzling, melancholic, enigmatic, and always surprising in its invention and beauty.

These recordings are a selection of the pieces drawn from the books.

"Sound Sketches contains many beautiful and unusual melodies..."
(Clavier Companion USA)

"I can't recommend these pieces highly enough..."
Piano Professional

"I find it hard to over-praise this accessible and vibrantly conceived selection...what is special here is that Lynch succeeds triumphantly in realising his noble ambition of writing relatively easy music that has substance."
International Piano

Songs:

1. Air of Solitude
2. Hot Air Balloon
3. Street Waltz
4. Watching the Thames
5. Fleurie
6. Late Jazz
7. Delphi
8. The Waltz of the Black Cat
9. Garden with Midnight Owl
10. Marin
11. Masks
12. Dream Horse
13. Tango Lento
14. Alhambra
15. Summer Dance
16. Goodbye Ullapool
17. Kensington Daisy
18. River
19. Hilltop
20. Sad Waltz
21. Stormrider
22. Clouds
23. Lago di Como
24. Tale
25. In the Gardens of the Villa
26. Fallen
27. Absence

Listen to: the entire album.

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Release date: 12/15/2012
Graham Lynch lives in Penzance England

Tagged as: Classical, Neoclassical, Jazz, Impressionism, Instrumental, Classical Piano

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