Joel Hastings - Pann: The Piano's 12 Sides

Award-winning composer and pianist Carter Pann is a genuine musician's musician, writing for and working with internationally acclaimed orchestras and ensembles. Composed especially for Joel Hastings, The Piano's 12 Sides is a remarkable cycle which takes us through song-like introspection, fearless virtuosity, timeless impressions of cosmic realms and dances both ebullient and macabre. The Bills owes its ragtime influence to Scott Joplin while acknowledging two great exponents of the genre. The composer describes The Cheese Grater as an adrenaline-driven, mean two-step. Evocative of a smoky jazz club, Your Touch is the laid-back solo movement from Carter Pann's GRAMMY�-nominated Piano Concerto (Naxos 8559043).