Monday 29 June 2009

Nancarrow

Don't want to say too much about Conlon Nancarrow, but he was known for his compositions for player pianos. They were ahead of their time (early/mid-20th century), because rhythmically the player piano allowed pretty much anything.

Here's a trilogy for player piano:





For violin and player piano:



And a special arrangement of one of his early player piano "studies"  by Yvar Mikhashoff:


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