Impromptus 2015
date completed
2015
duration
9'
scored for
solo piano
commission
MusicAccord for Emanuel Ax
premiere
March 2018
Program Note by Samuel Adams
This is a short work commissioned by Emanuel Ax to be paired with Schubert's Impromptus D. 899. It is dedicated to Manny, with affection.
- Samuel Adams
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press
“Impromptu No. 2: After Schubert has the virtue of nearly constant motion, a hopeful gurgling, and some of the same kind of rushing, repeated figures you hear in Schubert, but in a modern and highly original idiom. The technique it used was right up Ax's alley. The pianist has a way with fast runs, playing through them with the inevitability of a fast zipper.”
Philadelphia Inquirer ↗
“a work of inspired keyboard writing designed to complement Schubert, with flashes of that composer along with warmth and subtle harmonic shading to match.”
New York Times ↗