Dullea - Eric Craven: Pieces for Pianists, Vol. 1

For most of his life Eric Craven has kept a very low profile, concentrating on his teaching career and quietly developing his �non-prescriptive� composing method, a sort of aleatory style but which allows the performer varying degrees of freedom. His earlier cycle of short pieces, �SET�, was recorded after Craven was persuaded by leading pianists to make his work available. Highly praised, that technique is shown again to great effect in the �Pieces for Pianists�, producing music that is varied, interesting, but perfectly accessible for listener and performer. The composer states that his hope is �to reward any pianist with even modest ability with immediate success� while also providing a challenge to more accomplished pianists to explore new territory. The pianist says that this collection �will prove endlessly rewarding�.