Note
I’ve loved playing piano four-hands music since I was a child—the charming awkwardness of the physical fact of it adding to the joy and camaraderie of spur-of-the-moment music-making. Much of the four-hand literature consists of “popular” style 19th-century dance pieces, with a particular fondness for the waltz. Retro Music is an alternately valiant and pathetic attempt at waltzing à la Brahms, Schubert, or Ravel—except that horrible, dissonant roadblocks continually rout it.
My friend Rod McDaniel commissioned Retro Music for David Kaplan and me to play at a Metropolis Ensemble house concert.
David & Timo performing “Retro Music” at LPR.
Listen
Timo Andres: Retro Music
recorded at Oktaven Studios, Yonkers, NY, September 2012
performers David Kaplan & Timo Andres, piano four-hands
Purchase
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Retro Music score, print edition
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Retro Music score, PDF edition
17 pages, 9×12 format. Includes one score only.
