After playing through a lot of Ezra Read’s descriptive fantasias, I thought it would be fun to try one of his non-descriptive pieces. I chose…
Ezra Read’s descriptive Fantasia ‘Return from Klondyke’. It depicts the various stages of the miner’s journey, from striking gold in the Klondike, across the Chilcoot…
After recently acquiring a copy of Ezra Read’s ‘A Trip to the Moon’, I noticed that it followed the same synopsis as Méliès ‘Le Voyage…
Erik Satie’s first nocturne, published in 1919. Here, Satie juxtaposes perfect and augmented fourths to create harmonies distinctive of his compositional style. Whilst technically simple,…
Erik Satie’s third Gnoisenne; I recorded this at the same time as the second. This one is quite popular and has been used in film…