Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Louie - Memories in an Ancient Garden

Alexina Louie - Memories in an Ancient Garden

Live recording.  March 22, 2007.

This is an intensely internalized piece, and instructs the pianist to play in a rubato style "as if intoxicated by the scent of a thousand blossoms."  The mystery of the movement is further enhanced by colouristic playing inside the piano and the use of an ostinato passage in the second section.