M.Z. Gordon: Diary Pieces / Houston

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Label
Resonus Classics
Release Date
January 26, 2024
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Michael Zev Gordon
    • PERFORMER
      Joseph Houston
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 26, 2024
    • UPC
      5060262793664
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      RES10322
    • LABEL
      Resonus Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Before Playing Bach

      Composer: Michael Zev Gordon

      Performer: Joseph Houston

    2. II. A Still Moment

      Composer: Michael Zev Gordon

      Performer: Joseph Houston

    3. III. Ferragosto

      Composer: Michael Zev Gordon

      Performer: Joseph Houston

    4. IV. A Hoopoe Lands in Front of Me

      Composer: Michael Zev Gordon

      Performer: Joseph Houston

    5. V. Invention

      Composer: Michael Zev Gordon

      Performer: Joseph Houston

    6. VI. Distance

      Composer: Michael Zev Gordon

      Performer: Joseph Houston

    7. VII. After Playing Bach

      Composer: Michael Zev Gordon

      Performer: Joseph Houston

    8. I. Summer Waltz No. 2

      Composer: Michael Zev Gordon

      Performer: Joseph Houston

    9. II. Butterflies

      Composer: Michael Zev Gordon

      Performer: Joseph Houston

    10. III. Ferragosto in Campagna

      Composer: Michael Zev Gordon

      Performer: Joseph Houston

    11. IV. Folkish

      Composer: Michael Zev Gordon

      Performer: Joseph Houston

    12. V. Gondolalied

      Composer: Michael Zev Gordon

      Performer: Joseph Houston

    13. VI. Invention

      Composer: Michael Zev Gordon

      Performer: Joseph Houston

    14. VII. Between New Year and Yom Kippur

      Composer: Michael Zev Gordon

      Performer: Joseph Houston

    15. I. May Day 1

      Composer: Michael Zev Gordon

      Performer: Joseph Houston

    16. II. May Day 2

      Composer: Michael Zev Gordon

      Performer: Joseph Houston

    17. III. Flower

      Composer: Michael Zev Gordon

      Performer: Joseph Houston

    18. IV. Dondolo

      Composer: Michael Zev Gordon

      Performer: Joseph Houston

    19. V. A Moment of Jazz

      Composer: Michael Zev Gordon

      Performer: Joseph Houston

    20. VI. Always Near

      Composer: Michael Zev Gordon

      Performer: Joseph Houston

    21. VII. Last Day

      Composer: Michael Zev Gordon

      Performer: Joseph Houston

    22. I. Held Up

      Composer: Michael Zev Gordon

      Performer: Joseph Houston

    23. II. Another Epitaph

      Composer: Michael Zev Gordon

      Performer: Joseph Houston

    24. III. Invention for Jamie

      Composer: Michael Zev Gordon

      Performer: Joseph Houston

    25. IV. Sfumatore

      Composer: Michael Zev Gordon

      Performer: Joseph Houston

    26. V. Simple Song

      Composer: Michael Zev Gordon

      Performer: Joseph Houston

    27. VI. Judah Halevi

      Composer: Michael Zev Gordon

      Performer: Joseph Houston

    28. VII. Long, Long Ago

      Composer: Michael Zev Gordon

      Performer: Joseph Houston

    29. I. 75th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz (23rd January)

      Composer: Michael Zev Gordon

      Performer: Joseph Houston

    30. II. Locked-down, Opened up

      Composer: Michael Zev Gordon

      Performer: Joseph Houston

    31. III. Wild Raspberries in Queen's Wood

      Composer: Michael Zev Gordon

      Performer: Joseph Houston

    32. IV. This One for Jacob

      Composer: Michael Zev Gordon

      Performer: Joseph Houston

    33. V. For Mum

      Composer: Michael Zev Gordon

      Performer: Joseph Houston

    34. VI. Darkening

      Composer: Michael Zev Gordon

      Performer: Joseph Houston

    35. VII. First day at Castellucia

      Composer: Michael Zev Gordon

      Performer: Joseph Houston

    36. I. Slow Fade

      Composer: Michael Zev Gordon

      Performer: Joseph Houston

    37. II. Folksong

      Composer: Michael Zev Gordon

      Performer: Joseph Houston

    38. III. Apollo

      Composer: Michael Zev Gordon

      Performer: Joseph Houston

    39. IV. Slow Waltz

      Composer: Michael Zev Gordon

      Performer: Joseph Houston

    40. V. As If Floating

      Composer: Michael Zev Gordon

      Performer: Joseph Houston

    41. VI. 1564

      Composer: Michael Zev Gordon

      Performer: Joseph Houston

    42. VII. White Roses, September Morning Sun, My Son Leaving Home

      Composer: Michael Zev Gordon

      Performer: Joseph Houston

    43. I. Oxford Blues for Josh

      Composer: Michael Zev Gordon

      Performer: Joseph Houston

    44. II. Once More Raspberries in Queen's Wood

      Composer: Michael Zev Gordon

      Performer: Joseph Houston

    45. III. Song for Joe

      Composer: Michael Zev Gordon

      Performer: Joseph Houston

    46. IV. Fugato per Ferragosto

      Composer: Michael Zev Gordon

      Performer: Joseph Houston

    47. V. In memoriam Jane and Tony

      Composer: Michael Zev Gordon

      Performer: Joseph Houston

    48. VI. Remembering Louis

      Composer: Michael Zev Gordon

      Performer: Joseph Houston

    49. VII. Into the Distance

      Composer: Michael Zev Gordon

      Performer: Joseph Houston

    50. I. Fauré

      Composer: Michael Zev Gordon

      Performer: Joseph Houston

    51. II. Open-Hearted (for Andy)

      Composer: Michael Zev Gordon

      Performer: Joseph Houston

    52. III. Mancino

      Composer: Michael Zev Gordon

      Performer: Joseph Houston

    53. IV. After Icarus

      Composer: Michael Zev Gordon

      Performer: Joseph Houston

    54. V. Still Settling

      Composer: Michael Zev Gordon

      Performer: Joseph Houston

    55. VI. Es ist gewisslich an der zeit

      Composer: Michael Zev Gordon

      Performer: Joseph Houston

    56. VII. Simplicity

      Composer: Michael Zev Gordon

      Performer: Joseph Houston


In 2015, composer Michael Zev Gordon took up the idea of writing musical diary entries, which has spawned this ongoing series of small pieces for solo piano. With most written in a single day, with only minor subsequent refinements, Gordon beautifully captures a feeling, a nuance, an image and, as is the nature of a diary, often with personal associations. Pianist Joseph Houston sensitively responds to Gordon’s recurring themes of the bitter-sweet waltz, unwavering stillness, elegiac simplicity, folk-like dances and fleeting brilliance.