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In Your Head: New Music for Piano Four Hands
Navona

In Your Head: New Music for Piano Four Hands

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Details

Composer
VARIOUS
Artist
Muller, Steigerwalt
Format
CD
Label
Navona
Released
Oct 12, 2018
Catalog #
NV6190
UPC
896931004909

About

Acclaimed piano four-hand duo Dana Muller and Gary Steigerwalt come together once more for In Your Head, a collection featuring the work of six composers that highlights both fresh compositional talents and earlier successful works. Each piece demonstrates the unique synergy between the two performers. With twice the hands, twice the talent, and twice the interpretation, the piano is pushed to dynamic and sonoric extremes. Compositions on In Your Head span over five decades, but each is brought to new life by the skilled hands of Muller and Steigerwalt. The duo, who have performed extensively across the Western Hemisphere, found inspiration for this compilation in the success of Lewis Spratlan's Dreamworlds, a piece which they had commissioned in 2015. Using the piano as a canvas, the two paint a psychological landscape exploring the mind within different people, scenarios, and even locations. Sometimes dissonant and flustered, as in 'Mind Games II. Panic,' and other times eerie as in 'The Silent Hearth' which captures the memories echoing like firing synapses inside a dilapidated concert hall, each piece resonates with the complexity of mental activity. Throughout In Your Head, Steigerwalt and Muller compel listeners to zero in on the thoughts of the panicked soul, the trapped bureaucrat, the obsessed dictator, and the mind control of the lucid dreamer. As you follow along, perhaps you'll ask yourself - whose psyche most resonates with me?

Tracklist 16 tracks

  1. 1 I. High Expectations 03:54
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. High Expectations
    Duration
    03:54
    Composer
    Donald Wheelock
    Performer
    Dana Muller, Gary Steigerwalt
  2. 2 II. Panic 01:55
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Panic
    Duration
    01:55
    Composer
    Donald Wheelock
    Performer
    Dana Muller, Gary Steigerwalt
  3. 3 III. Cogitation 02:12
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Cogitation
    Duration
    02:12
    Composer
    Donald Wheelock
    Performer
    Dana Muller, Gary Steigerwalt
  4. 4 IV. Reflection 04:24
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Reflection
    Duration
    04:24
    Composer
    Donald Wheelock
    Performer
    Dana Muller, Gary Steigerwalt
  5. 5 V. Abandon 03:49
    Track
    5
    Title
    V. Abandon
    Duration
    03:49
    Composer
    Donald Wheelock
    Performer
    Dana Muller, Gary Steigerwalt
  6. 6 I. Dreams of a Saint: St. Francis of Assisi 05:58
    Track
    6
    Title
    I. Dreams of a Saint: St. Francis of Assisi
    Duration
    05:58
    Composer
    Lewis Spratlan
    Performer
    Dana Muller, Gary Steigerwalt
  7. 7 II. Dreams of a Madman: Hitler 04:43
    Track
    7
    Title
    II. Dreams of a Madman: Hitler
    Duration
    04:43
    Composer
    Lewis Spratlan
    Performer
    Dana Muller, Gary Steigerwalt
  8. 8 III. Dreams of a Bureaucrat: a bureaucrat 06:52
    Track
    8
    Title
    III. Dreams of a Bureaucrat: a bureaucrat
    Duration
    06:52
    Composer
    Lewis Spratlan
    Performer
    Dana Muller, Gary Steigerwalt
  9. 9 I. Preamble 04:08
    Track
    9
    Title
    I. Preamble
    Duration
    04:08
    Composer
    John La Montaine
    Performer
    Dana Muller, Gary Steigerwalt
  10. 10 II. Scherzo 03:30
    Track
    10
    Title
    II. Scherzo
    Duration
    03:30
    Composer
    John La Montaine
    Performer
    Dana Muller, Gary Steigerwalt
  11. 11 III. Fugue 02:31
    Track
    11
    Title
    III. Fugue
    Duration
    02:31
    Composer
    John La Montaine
    Performer
    Dana Muller, Gary Steigerwalt
  12. 12 I. Jauntily 05:44
    Track
    12
    Title
    I. Jauntily
    Duration
    05:44
    Composer
    Daniel Asia
    Performer
    Dana Muller, Gary Steigerwalt
  13. 13 II. Slow, ethereal 05:40
    Track
    13
    Title
    II. Slow, ethereal
    Duration
    05:40
    Composer
    Daniel Asia
    Performer
    Dana Muller, Gary Steigerwalt
  14. 14 III. Impetuously 02:55
    Track
    14
    Title
    III. Impetuously
    Duration
    02:55
    Composer
    Daniel Asia
    Performer
    Dana Muller, Gary Steigerwalt
  15. 15 Overture for a Lucid Dream 05:13
    Track
    15
    Title
    Overture for a Lucid Dream
    Duration
    05:13
    Composer
    Matthew St. Laurent
    Performer
    Dana Muller, Gary Steigerwalt
  16. 16 The Silent Hearth 07:17
    Track
    16
    Title
    The Silent Hearth
    Duration
    07:17
    Composer
    David Sanford
    Performer
    Dana Muller, Gary Steigerwalt