Composers:Leonard Bernstein & Tan Dun

Piano:Warren Lee

Both Leonard Bernstein and Chinese-born American composer Tan Dun have used the piano for collections of shorter and/or occasional pieces, along with larger works that were written to exploit particular aspects of piano technique. Bernsteins piano output is mainly comprised of characterful, subtle miniatures written, over four decades, as groups of anniversaries.Toucheswas composed as a test piece for the Sixth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Tan Duns piano music was composed at key junctures in his career and is both evocative and propulsive,Dew-Drop-Fallsbeing one of his most intricate and ethereal sound pictures.

Bernstein, Leonard
4 Anniversaries
1. No. 1. For Felicia Montealegre 02:19
2. No. 2. For Johnny Mehegan 00:43
3. No. 3. For David Diamond 02:26
4. No. 4. For Helen Coates 01:21
5 Anniversaries
5. No. 1. For Elizabeth Rudolf 01:15
6. No. 2. For Lucas Foss 01:51
7. No. 3. For Elizabeth B. Ehrman 00:46
8. No. 4. For Sandy Gellhorn 01:56
9. No. 5. For Susanna Kyle 01:57
Touches
10. Touches 10:08
Tan, Dun
8 Memories in Watercolor (2002 version)
11. No. 1. Missing Moon 03:04
12. No. 2. Staccato Beans 01:29
13. No. 3. Herd-boy’s Song 02:05
14. No. 4. Blue Nun 01:07
15. No. 5. Red Wilderness 02:12
16. No. 6. Ancient Burial 02:47
17. No. 7. Floating Clouds 02:26
18. No. 8. Sun-rain 01:40
Traces (1992 version)
19. Traces (1992 version) 10:10
Dew-Fall-Drops
20. Dew-Fall-Drops 07:51

Total Playing Time: 59:33