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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