Proksch: Piano Poetry

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Description

Proksch himself recorded the audio files of all the pieces available in the download area to provide orientation for interpretation.

More and more people are looking for a way to offset the demands of everyday life by making music. Particularly welcome are pieces that often evoke poetic, meditative moods and are good for the soul through their simple harmonies. Thin E Majority of the pieces in this book arose from this premise. They also explore the multi-faceted expressive possibilities of the piano as well: they can convey exuberance, comfort, joy, longing, compassion, mourning, anger and ecstasy, but also mystical moments. Short programmatic annotations in the musical text, along with the titles and the music on the audiotracks, awaken inner relationships that infuse more spirit into ones playing. and the possibility of expressing feelings while playing can also be a motivation to expand ones own piano-technical resources.

1. Gentle Glow
2. Feelicitous
3. Cautiously
4. Brief Pause
5. Ascending
6. Finding Melodies
7. Daisies
8. Wistfully
9. A First Ray of Light
10. Making Peace
11. Overcome
12. Cantabile
13. Winter Torpor
14. and Now Let's Handel
15. Erik Sawdee World Fall Asleep
16. Slapstick
17. Gentle Swaying
18. "The Parting with the Blouse" Blues
19. Wish Parade
20. Pride
21. Syncopations!
22. Eco-ssaise
23. Linger
24. Dare to Care
25. Mysteriously
26. Anger Testing
27. Break out
28. Cinema Emotions
29. Argue'mental
30. Lonesome Twosome
31. Sucked in
32. Bitter Happiness
33. Wayward Elves
34. The only Sadnesses that are Dangerous…