Aranjuez, Ma Pensée (1968), by Joaquín Rodrigo. Live performance by Paul Sánchez on October 29, 2019. This is Rodrigo's own transcription of the famous "Adagio" from his "Concierto de Aranjuez." Donate on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SanchezComposer https://www.paultsanchez.com

Paul Sánchez presents the world-premiere of Graham Lynch's "The Rhine," from WHITE BOOK 3. Co-presented by the San Francisco International Piano Festival and the International Piano Series. NOTES BY THE COMPOSER, GRAHAM LYNCH White Book 3 is unified by the work of the artist Christopher le Brun, whose paintings and woodcuts have inspired these five pieces. The first three pieces of the set have surface qualities of colour and light, and move easily from one to the next. These pieces reveal Lynch’s predilection for the qualities of French music, but with The Rhine a new world opens out, one of a Northern European sensibility. This work is by far the longest of the set and the individual ideas are subordinated within the textures, sometimes breaking the surface of the music before falling back again - the abundance of the notes threatening to blur the distinction between line and decoration, dragging the music into the world of the unconscious. This is music of a much darker nature, its primal energy gathering weight as it moves towards a climax, before concluding, with a nod to the Wagnerian Rhine, on a series of hushed E flat chords. Donate on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SanchezComposer https://www.paultsanchez.com

Paul Sánchez presents the world-premiere of Graham Lynch's "Landscapes with Angels," the final work of WHITE BOOK 3. Co-presented by the San Francisco International Piano Festival and the International Piano Series. NOTES BY THE COMPOSER, GRAHAM LYNCH White Book 3 is unified by the work of the artist Christopher le Brun, whose paintings and woodcuts have inspired these five pieces. Before the last sounds [of "The Rhine," the previous work in White Book 3] have died away, the lustrous opening of Landscapes with Angels begins. This is the one piece in the set in which the title is not from a specific Le Brun painting, instead reflecting a number of his works, including the studies for the Parables at Liverpool Anglican Cathedral as well as ‘Travellers in a Landscape’. Angels walk among men, and the world is momentarily transformed by a heavenly presence. Donate on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SanchezComposer https://www.paultsanchez.com

Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 36 (1931) - Serge Rachmaninov Paul Sánchez, live in Knoxville, TN, 3 November 2016. Donate on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SanchezComposer https://www.paultsanchez.com

Paul Sánchez performs George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” with the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra and Maestro Delta David Gier. https://www.patreon.com/SanchezComposer https://www.paultsanchez.com

Paul Sánchez presents the US-premiere of Graham Lynch's "The Couperin Sketchbooks." Co-presented by the San Francisco International Piano Festival and the International Piano Series. NOTES BY THE COMPOSER, GRAHAM LYNCH The Couperin Sketchbooks is about ten minutes long, and is made up of many short sections which have ‘Couperinesque’ titles, and share something of the spirit of Couperin’s music. In a number of places these fragments are linked by short passages from the Couperin ordres. The music moves seamlessly between the different styles, and passes through a wide range of moods and textures. The final bars of the piece are taken from the opening of a harpsichord piece Lynch wrote a number of years ago, Pastorale, which in itself was a response to the idea of the unmeasured prelude. Donate on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SanchezComposer https://www.paultsanchez.com

Paul Sánchez presents the world-premiere of Graham Lynch's "Glow," from WHITE BOOK 3. Co-presented by the San Francisco International Piano Festival and the International Piano Series. NOTES BY THE COMPOSER, GRAHAM LYNCH White Book 3, a set of five works that take their inspiration from the paintings and woodcuts of British artist Christopher Le Brun. The first three pieces of the set have surface qualities of colour and light, and move easily from one to the next. Glow, where constantly shifting foreground rhythms are framed within a more regular, formal architectural structure. These pieces reveal Lynch’s predilection for the qualities of French music. Donate on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SanchezComposer https://www.paultsanchez.com

Ballade No. 2 in B minor, S. 171, by Franz Liszt. Paul Sánchez, piano. Live performance. ​ Donate on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SanchezComposer https://www.paultsanchez.com

Paul Sánchez presents the world-premiere of Graham Lynch's "Absolute Inwardness." Co-presented by the San Francisco International Piano Festival and the International Piano Series. NOTES BY THE COMPOSER, GRAHAM LYNCH Absolute Inwardness was Hegel’s definition of the true content of Romanticism (‘infinite subjectivity’). This piece draws on elements of late romantic style, and fragments them until the work disintegrates into a constellation of ideas that look inwards. There are echoes of chorales, of late Brahms, and at the end the piece dissolves into a chord that covers the entire range of the piano. This work is something of a companion piece to The Couperin Sketchbooks, being its opposite in many respects. Donate on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SanchezComposer https://www.paultsanchez.com

Paul Sánchez presents the world-premiere of Graham Lynch's "Seria Ludo," from WHITE BOOK 3. Co-presented by the San Francisco International Piano Festival and the International Piano Series. NOTES BY THE COMPOSER, GRAHAM LYNCH Seria Ludo - ‘serious matters treated in a playful spirit’. This is the title of the first piece from White Book 3, a set of five works that take their inspiration from the paintings and woodcuts of British artist Christopher Le Brun. The first three pieces of the set have surface qualities of colour and light, and move easily from one to the next. Seria Ludo has a playful, free-wheeling energy, spiced with syncopations and a devil-may-care attitude to every gesture that rushes past. Donate on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SanchezComposer https://www.paultsanchez.com

Paul Sánchez plays "Granada: Serenata," from "Suite Española, Op. 47," by Isaac Albéniz. Donate on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SanchezComposer https://www.paultsanchez.com

Paul Sánchez presents the world-premiere of Graham Lynch's "The Hesperides," from WHITE BOOK 3. Co-presented by the San Francisco International Piano Festival and the International Piano Series. NOTES BY THE COMPOSER, GRAHAM LYNCH White Book 3, a set of five works that take their inspiration from the paintings and woodcuts of British artist Christopher Le Brun. The first three pieces of the set have surface qualities of colour and light, and move easily from one to the next. The Hesperides tunes into the magical and enigmatic zone of imagery created by Le Brun’s painting of the same name. Donate on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SanchezComposer https://www.paultsanchez.com

"Leyenda," from Suite Española, Op. 47, by Isaac Albéniz. Paul Sánchez, piano. Live performance, October 9, 2018. "In Spain deep song has had an undeniable influence on all of our best composers, from Albéniz through Granados to Falla.… But the masterstroke was left to Isaac Albéniz, who plumbed the depths of Andalusian song in his work." – Federico Garcia Lorca, translated by Christopher Maurer in his book "In Search of Duende," (New York: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1998) 24. Donate on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SanchezComposer https://www.paultsanchez.com

Robert Schumann - Kinderszenen, Op. 15: 4. Bittendes Kind Scenes from childhood, Op. 15: 4. Pleading Child Paul Sánchez, Knoxville, Tennessee, live performance, 3 November 2016. Donate on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SanchezComposer https://www.paultsanchez.com

Fabular Arcana: II. The Coal-Bog Giantesses Composer: David M. Gordon Paul Sánchez, retuned piano. Delta David Gier, music director, South Dakota Symphony Orchestra. World premiere performance, January 21, 2022. Donate on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SanchezComposer https://www.paultsanchez.com

Enrique Granados: Danza No. 2, "Oriental," from Danzas Españolas, Op. 37. Paul Sánchez, piano. Live performance, San Marcos, Texas. Donate on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SanchezComposer https://www.paultsanchez.com

English Suite No. 6 in D minor, BWV 811: 6. Gigue. J. S. Bach Paul Sánchez, piano. Live performance, August, 2012, Tucson, Arizona. Background image: "Dancing the Morris," 1600, by William Kemp. Donate on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SanchezComposer https://www.paultsanchez.com

Pater Noster, S. 173/5, from Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, by Franz Liszt. Paul Sánchez, piano. Live performance, November 8, 2024. ​ Donate on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SanchezComposer https://www.paultsanchez.com

"Blue Bird in the Mythic Forest" from "The Chimeras," by Graham Lynch. Paul Sánchez, piano. US-premiere performance, November 8, 2024, Oklahoma Baptist University. Donate on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SanchezComposer https://www.paultsanchez.com

Sonada de adiós (1935), by Joaquín Rodrigo. Live performance by Paul Sánchez on October 29, 2019. Rodrigo composed this music in homage to his composition teacher, Paul Dukas. Donate on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SanchezComposer https://www.paultsanchez.com

Après une Lecture du Dante - Fantasia quasi Sonata, S. 161/7, from Années de pèlerinage II, by Franz Liszt. Paul Sánchez, piano. Live performance, November 8, 2024. ​ Donate on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SanchezComposer https://www.paultsanchez.com

Preludio de añoranza (1987), by Joaquín Rodrigo. Live performance by Paul Sánchez on October 29, 2019. The "Preludio de añoranza" - translated as "Prelude of Yearning" - was Rodrigo's last published piano work. Donate on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SanchezComposer https://www.paultsanchez.com

English Suite No. 6 in D minor, BWV 811: 4. Sarabande and double. J. S. Bach Paul Sánchez, piano. Live performance, August, 2012, Tucson, Arizona. Background image: adapted from "The Art of Dancing" (1735), by Kellom Thomlinson. https://www.libraryofdance.org/manuals/1735-Tomlinson-Art_of_Dancing_(LOC).pdf Donate on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SanchezComposer https://www.paultsanchez.com

"La puerta del Vino," from Préludes, by Claude Debussy. Paul Sánchez, piano. Live performance, October 2012, Chicago, Illinois. "But where [Debussy] reveals precisely how much he was influenced by deep song is in the marvelous prelude titled La Puerta del Vino and in the vague, tender Soirée en Grenade, where, I think, one can find all the emotional themes of nighttime in Granada, the blue remoteness of the Vega, the Sierra greeting the tremulous Mediterranean, the enormous barbs of the clouds sunk into the distance, the admirable rubato of the city, the hallucinating play of its underground waters." - Federico Garcia Lorca, translated by Christopher Maurer in his book "In Search of Duende," (New York: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1998) 9. Background image: Photoglob Co., Publisher. Granada. Alhambra. Puerta del Vino. Granada Spain, ca. 1890. [Zürich, Switzerland: Photoglob Company, to 1906] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2017660757/. Donate on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SanchezComposer https://www.paultsanchez.com

Paul Sánchez rehearses the finale from the fourth movement of David M. Gordon's piano concerto "Fabular Arcana." The movement is titled "Insecta Ex Machina." Donate on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SanchezComposer https://www.paultsanchez.com

This humble work is dedicated to my friend, Adam Golka, in loving memory of José Feghali. Its title is taken from Schumann’s last work for piano, the Thema mit Variationen, composed in February of 1854. Schumann believed that its theme had been offered to him directly by angels. José Feghali’s musicianship, capable of conveying the most profound spirituality, most poignant poetry, and most transcendent truth and beauty, was art of such quality: powerful, terrifying, angelic. This new work is unashamedly and clearly modeled on Schumann’s Thema mit Variationen, and some of its contours are made in the image of Schumann’s Kinderszenen, Op. 15, and Arabeske, Op. 18. Words cannot express what José Feghali meant to those who knew him, cannot explain his generosity of spirit or the depth of what he gave through the gifts of his teaching and his music; I know that these words ring true for many of those whose lives he touched, including my friend and colleague Adam Golka. While words fail us, may this music, given in love, do greater honor to José and to the indelible imprint he could not help but impart to those so blessed to have known him and called him “friend.” PAUL SANCHEZ Porque agora vemos como por espelho, em enigma; mas então veremos face a face. World-premiere performance: Gregory DeTurck, piano Donate on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SanchezComposer https://www.paultsanchez.com

English Suite No. 6 in D minor, BWV 811: 5. Gavotte I and II. J. S. Bach Paul Sánchez, piano. Live performance, August, 2012, Tucson, Arizona. Background images: Image 1/3 adapted from "The Gavotte" (1780), by Percy Macquoid. Image 2 adapted from "La Cybelline," plate 3, 1719, by Charles Fairbank, published by Edmund Pemberton. Donate on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SanchezComposer https://www.paultsanchez.com

Federico Mompou - Cants Mágics: i. Energic - Lent - Energic Paul Sánchez, piano. Live performance, San Francisco, California, August 14, 2016. Video adapted from a live broadcast by Old First Concerts. Donate on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SanchezComposer https://www.paultsanchez.com

Enrique Granados: Allegro de concierto, Op. 46 (1903) Paul Sánchez, piano. Recorded in 2006. Background images: Joaquin Mir Trinxet (1873–1940). Donate on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SanchezComposer https://www.paultsanchez.com

English Suite No. 6 in D minor, BWV 811: 2. Allemande. J. S. Bach Paul Sánchez, piano. Live performance, August, 2012, Tucson, Arizona. Background images: Images 1 and 4 are from Simon Guillame's "Positions et attitudes de lállemande" (Paris, 1768), by artist Jeanne Chapoulaud. Image 2 is by an anonymous artist. Image 3 is by James Caldwell (1772). Donate on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SanchezComposer https://www.paultsanchez.com

Paul Sánchez rehearses the cadenza from the third movement of David M. Gordon's piano concerto "Fabular Arcana." The movement is titled "Concerning the Great Bøyg's Various Reconstructions of Solveig's Song from the Degraded Memories of Malevolent Woodland Spirits." The piano in this video has been retuned using the tuning system chosen by the composer for "Fabular Arcana." Donate on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SanchezComposer https://www.paultsanchez.com

J. S. Bach: English Suite No. 6 in D minor, BWV 811: 1. Prelude Paul Sánchez, piano. Live performance, August, 2012, Tucson, Arizona. Background images: adapted from "The Art of Dancing" (1735), by Kellom Thomlinson. https://www.libraryofdance.org/manuals/1735-Tomlinson-Art_of_Dancing_(LOC).pdf Donate on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SanchezComposer https://www.paultsanchez.com

Paul Sánchez presents premiere performances of new piano music by Graham Lynch: 0:00 Introduction 0:45 Absolute Inwardness 10:05 The Couperin Sketchbooks 19:55 White Book 3: Seria Ludo 22:24 White Book 3: The Hesperides 27:31 White Book 3: Glow 29:57 White Book 3: The Rhine 39:27 White Book 3: Landscapes with Angels Co-presented by the San Francisco International Piano Festival and the International Piano Series. NOTES BY THE COMPOSER, GRAHAM LYNCH Absolute Inwardness was Hegel’s definition of the true content of Romanticism (‘infinite subjectivity’). This piece draws on elements of late romantic style, and fragments them until the work disintegrates into a constellation of ideas that look inwards. There are echoes of chorales, of late Brahms, and at the end the piece dissolves into a chord that covers the entire range of the piano. This work is something of a companion piece to The Couperin Sketchbooks, being its opposite in many respects. The Couperin Sketchbooks is about ten minutes long, and is made up of many short sections which have ‘Couperinesque’ titles, and share something of the spirit of Couperin’s music. In a number of places these fragments are linked by short passages from the Couperin ordres. The music moves seamlessly between the different styles, and passes through a wide range of moods and textures. The final bars of the piece are taken from the opening of a harpsichord piece Lynch wrote a number of years ago, Pastorale, which in itself was a response to the idea of the unmeasured prelude. White Book 3 is unified by the work of the artist Christopher le Brun, whose paintings and woodcuts have inspired these five pieces. The first three pieces of the set have surface qualities of colour and light, and move easily from one to the next. Seria Ludo has a playful, free-wheeling energy, spiced with syncopations and a devil-may-care attitude to every gesture that rushes past. The Hesperides tunes into the magical and enigmatic zone of imagery created by Le Brun’s painting of the same name, at times conjuring translucent harmonies from the piano that counterpoint the balanced tread of the opening and closing sections. And finally, Glow, where constantly shifting foreground rhythms are framed within a more regular, formal architectural structure. These pieces reveal Lynch’s predilection for the qualities of French music, but with The Rhine a new world opens out, one of a Northern European sensibility. This work is by far the longest of the set and the individual ideas are subordinated within the textures, sometimes breaking the surface of the music before falling back again - the abundance of the notes threatening to blur the distinction between line and decoration, dragging the music into the world of the unconscious. This is music of a much darker nature, its primal energy gathering weight as it moves towards a climax, before concluding, with a nod to the Wagnerian Rhine, on a series of hushed E flat chords. Before the last sounds have died away, the lustrous opening of Landscapes with Angels begins. This is the one piece in the set in which the title is not from a specific Le Brun painting, instead reflecting a number of his works, including the studies for the Parables at Liverpool Anglican Cathedral as well as ‘Travellers in a Landscape’. Angels walk among men, and the world is momentarily transformed by a heavenly presence. Donate on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SanchezComposer https://www.paultsanchez.com

Robert Schumann - Kinderszenen, Op. 15: 1. Von fremden Ländern und Menschen Scenes from childhood, Op. 15: 1. Of foreign lands and people Paul Sánchez, Knoxville, Tennessee, live performance, 3 November 2016. Donate on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SanchezComposer https://www.paultsanchez.com

"La sérénade interrompue," from Preludes, by Claude Debussy. Paul Sánchez, piano. Live performance, October 2012. Background image: "La Partie carrée," by Antoine Watteau (1684–1721). Donate on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SanchezComposer https://www.paultsanchez.com

From "Trilogy Sonata." Music by Philip Glass, arranged for piano by Paul Barnes. Paul Sánchez, piano. Live performance, as released on the CD "CONTINUUM [live recordings], Athyr Records, 2016. Donate on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SanchezComposer https://www.paultsanchez.com

English Suite No. 6 in D minor, BWV 811: 3. Courante. J. S. Bach Paul Sánchez, piano. Live performance, August, 2012, Tucson, Arizona. Background image: "Courante," by Abraham Bosse, 1602-1676. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/a7613ad0-1ea0-0133-9b5c-58d385a7bbd0 Donate on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SanchezComposer https://www.paultsanchez.com

La Soiree dans Grenade, from Estampes, by Claude Debussy. Paul Sánchez, piano. Recorded October, 2012. "But where [Debussy] reveals precisely how much he was influenced by deep song is in the marvelous prelude titled La Puerta del Vino and in the vague, tender Soirée en Grenade, where, I think, one can find all the emotional themes of nighttime in Granada, the blue remoteness of the Vega, the Sierra greeting the tremulous Mediterranean, the enormous barbs of the clouds sunk into the distance, the admirable rubato of the city, the hallucinating play of its underground waters." - Federico Garcia Lorca, translated by Christopher Maurer in his book "In Search of Duende," (New York: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1998) 9. Background image: "Granada, 1886, Öl auf Leinwand," by Edmund Wodick (1816–1886). Donate on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SanchezComposer https://www.paultsanchez.com

Federico Mompou - Cants Mágics: iv. Misteriós - Viu Paul Sánchez, piano. Live performance, San Francisco, California, August 14, 2016. Video adapted from a live broadcast by Old First Concerts. Donate on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SanchezComposer https://www.paultsanchez.com

Federico Mompou - Cants Mágics: iii. Profond - lent Paul Sánchez, piano. Live performance, San Francisco, California, August 14, 2016. Video adapted from a live broadcast by Old First Concerts. Donate on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SanchezComposer https://www.paultsanchez.com