With this album of recently composed works for solo piano, Mizrahi showcases the continued vitality of an instrument that evokes an exceptionally rich musical heritage yet still is capable of expressing the most contemporary of musical ideas. The Bright Motion brings together a collection of works composed within the past five years, including several pieces written for Mizrahi, and two composed specifically for this album. In the case of the four commissioned works, the creative process was collaborative: several composers composed with Mizrahi’s hands, sound, and approach to the keyboard in mind, and the pianist communicated frequently with all the composers throughout the process of learning, performing, and recording their music. The six pieces display an astonishingly wide variety of approaches to timbre, melody, form, rhythm, and the range of the instrument, and the result is an album that builds on the traditional solo piano tradition yet has a modern sense of flow and emotional consistency.