Although the extraordinary artistry of pianist Gloria Cheng has an international reach, in a purely professional sense she is strongly connected to Los Angeles; Cheng teaches at UCLA and frequently appears as soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. This body is famously directed by a self-professed composer who also works as conductor, Esa-Pekka Salonen, who led, in Los Angeles, some of the last concerts devoted to Polish composer Witold Lutoslawski while he lived. The first book in English devoted to Lutoslawski was ...
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Although the extraordinary artistry of pianist Gloria Cheng has an international reach, in a purely professional sense she is strongly connected to Los Angeles; Cheng teaches at UCLA and frequently appears as soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. This body is famously directed by a self-professed composer who also works as conductor, Esa-Pekka Salonen, who led, in Los Angeles, some of the last concerts devoted to Polish composer Witold Lutoslawski while he lived. The first book in English devoted to Lutoslawski was written by composer Steven Stucky who, although based at Cornell University, is a close friend of Salonen's. Pull together these slight degrees of separation and you have Telarc's remarkable Gloria Cheng: Piano Music of Salonen, Stucky, and Lutoslawski.None of the composers on the program is particularly noted for production of keyboard music, and both Salonen and Stucky are professed non-players. Lutoslawski, however, played the piano well, and in his youth his Piano Sonata (1934) was...
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