PIANO MUSIC
STEPS
My ongoing anthology entitled STEPS is projected to run throughout my life, as a sort of "travelling companion". Begun in 2001 it has now reached eleven large volumes - cycles comprised of smaller, often poetically entitled movements. Piano music was the medium by which I came back into composing after a twelve year silence. Two people were catalysts in re-igniting my desire to write: the first was my good friend Michael Bell, of Keele University, who threw down the gauntlet to me (pretty much signing a blank cheque - "You write it - I will play it!"); the second was a gifted young pupil of his whose precocious playing reminded me, somewhat belatedly, of what had lain dormant for too long; that music was indeed beautiful and the most powerful conveyer of thought and expression yet devised. Sometimes, perhaps, the 'obvious' needs to be re-spoken. I am eternally indebted to both.
Steps - volumes 1- 11
Please explore below... A window will open where you will find printable scores, programme notes, audio and video. If you wish simply to listen, this YouTube playlist has many performances.
Still
from Steps Volume I
Old Man with Water Studies
from Steps Volume 2
Hammam Baths
from Steps Volume 3
Canto della Vita
from Steps Volume 4
no.9
from Steps Volume 5Michael Bell
The wind whispers in dry leaves
from Steps Volume 8