*2024 stock* Elliott Schwartz plays four of his compositions for solo piano and pre-recorded tape, a project that remains "a continuing attempt to enhance, expand, obscure, develop or otherwise modify the piano sonority and the act of piano performance, through electronics." In his improvisatory piece "Grand Concerto" he uses fragments from the Grieg, Tchaikovsky No. 1 and Liszt No. 1 piano concertos; it is as epic in scope as the classical favorites.
All compositions for for piano and tape performed by Elliot Schwartz. Extended Piano composed 1973 using ARP 2500 and 2600 synthesizers. Music for Prince Albert 'on his 150th birthday) composed in 1969. The tape part contains fragments of Haendel, Mendelssohn, Beethoven and recorded letters of the alphabet, along side taped material interjected during the perfomance.
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