David Ernest Mc Carthy
Piano Sonata No.2
(2023)
for piano
Duration: 16'
Solos:
piano
Piano Sonata No.2
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Work introduction
This is a tricky piano sonata, which sounds like Romantic music, but actually is pure Modernism - with notes selected from palettes of pitches that correspond with an axial (mirror-image) symmetry of the piano keyboard. The pitches on the left hand side of the axis of symmetry always reflect the pitches on the right hand side of it, to give a very visual, rewarding experience for the virtouso pianist.