Composer David Lang returns with a new recording of two separate works for solo piano: the title piece and a cycle of memorial works written for his friends titled memory pieces, both performed by Andrew Zolinsky.
this was written by hand was a piece Lang had written after realizing he had not physically hand-written a piece since purchasing a home computer in 1993. Lang had said in his liner notes that he wondered if “the means of writing had any effect on the writing itself”, and to these ears, it did indeed. The piece’s stark but colorful passages sound as if they are created with a more ragged, handwritten craftsmanship than a piece that one would expect to be put through any level of a new technology. Very high-ended, mostly childlike phrases are continued until the 7-minute mark when they are intervened by low-end chords that bring the piece to a much darker place and leave it there. Continue reading
The Glass 