Tag: classical

  • Today Yann Tiersen releases EUSA, his first album of solo piano works, and it’s one of his most beautiful releases to date. It is, quite literally, one awe-inspiring moment of elation after another, providing lots of opportunities for the listener to bask in its brilliant light. The concept behind the record is fascinating; Tiersen was…

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  • Back in June, Brooklyn-based piano composer Andrew Shapiro released his third piano album, appropriately entitled Piano 3. (Perhaps you are one of the six million people who streamed his song “Mint Green” – from his 2008 debut, Numbers, Colors and People – on Pandora?) That he was releasing another piano album was hardly a surprise…

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  • Owen Franklin is a very talented fellow who makes wonderful independent music and movies. “The Lover I Left Behind,” a truly touching piano ballad if ever we’ve heard one, is the theme song from his debut feature film, She Moved Through The Fair.

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