Martin Boykan has released a new CD entitled Music For Piano (1986-2007), available now on Bridge Records. Pianist Donald Bermans recording of Martin Boykans piano music gives passionate voice to the music of one of Americas most undervalued composers. Berman describes the music as: "..lyrical, yet atonal; melodic, yet with wide leaps in register; it sustains over large expanses, yet has quick inner pulsing."
Berman describes his encounter with Boykans music: "At the start I was awed by the diamond-like purity of individual moments, daunted by the complex counterpointit was music that lived in my head for a long time after performing it. It is deeply personal."
Music For Piano (1986-2007)
Compositions by Martin Boykan
Performed by Donald Berman
Usurpations (1997)
II. For David Rakowski
III. For Edward Cohen
IV. For Ross Bauer
V. To the memory of Seymour Shifrin
Sonata No. 3: to the memory of Edward Cohen (2007)
II. Fantasy
III. Lament
IV. Invocation
Towards the Horizon (2007)
I. Moment of Angels
II. Pastorale
III. Atmospheric Disturbances
IV. Arlene Zallman: In Memoriam
V. Horizon Line
Fantasy-Sonata (1986)
Un poco largamente con rubato - quasi lento - subito pi mosso