TEDDY ABRAMS – Preludes – LP – Vinyl [JUL 25]

LP – Black Vinyl.

Teddy Abrams, the Grammy Award winning conductor, composer, and multi-instrumentalist deemed by the New York Times as a Maestro of the People, and named Musical Americas 2022 Conductor of the Year, announces Preludes, an album of solo piano works composed and performed by Abrams and produced by Gabriel Kahane and Casey Foubert, via New Amsterdam Records.

Preludes is a contemplative, personal, and playful set of simple solo piano pieces whose recorded sonic identities were developed in collaboration with Gabriel Kahane and Casey Foubert. Kahane and Foubert identified the personality of each Prelude and found a sound world for every track to match the intrinsic characteristics of the individual works. The 16 pieces that make up Preludes take inspiration from the canon of classical piano works such as Bachs Inventions and Bartoks Mikrokosmos, yet they are imbued with Abrams immaculate compositional language and a depth in production uncommon to classical works.

Coming on the tail end of Abrams Grammy Award Winning Piano Concerto (2023), Abrams explains: After the crazy, frenetic, joyful energy of my Piano Concerto, I wanted to create a piano work that explored a completely different energy and soundscape. While the Piano Concerto is overtly populist, referencing American genres like jazz, funk, and Gospel music, the Preludes are meant to be introspective, intimate, and simple enough for pianists of many skill levels to play in both performance and home settings

Tracklist:

Side A
1. Microcosm
2. Echo Charlie Hotel Oscar
3. Nearby Parallel Universes
4. The Scream
5. Legendarium
6. Tact
7. Combined Species
8. Mahler’s Pedal
9. Found Material

Side B
1. Toccata
2. Ballad for Yourself –
3. Gigue
4. Pyotr
5. The Persistence of Pitch Memory
6. Spake Schumann
7. Macrocosm