Oni Buchanan

In her transcendent HIEROSGAMOS, Cindy Cox uses this ancient Greek concept to unify two characteristics of the piano: its tremendous capacity for resonance and a percussive, primarily motoric texture in this large scale set of seven etudes. The recording also features another work focused on harmony and resonance, The blackbird whistling/Or just after.

Cindy Cox, Hierosgamos: Studies in Harmony and Resonance (2003)

Cindy Cox, The blackbird whistling/Or just after (2001)

Cindy Cox, Playing a round (2008) (pianists Jenny Q Chai and Piotr Tomasz Szczepanik)

Oni Buchanan performs piano repertoire that explores the overlapping terrains of savagery and sophistication, with a full palette of primal chord clusters, virtuosic note-whips, saturated layers of sound, electronics, and lost echoes of a classical world. Click here for full liner notes.

Missy Mazzoli, Isabelle Eberhardt Dreams of Pianos (2007)
Annie Gosfield, The Wanton Brutality of a Tender Touch (2006)    
Cindy Cox, from Hierosgamos: Studies in Harmony and Resonance (2003)
Mei-Fang Lin, Interaction (2001)        
Joan Tower, Vast Antique Cubes/Throbbing Still (2000)
Adina Izarra, Cónclave (2003)
Tania Léon, Tumbáo (2005)
Heitor Villa-Lobos, Rudepoêma (1926)                
Cindy Cox, The blackbird whistling/Or just after (2001)

Rzewski, Four Pieces, No. 4
Bach, Prelude and Fugue in C# major, WTC Bk 1
Nancarrow, Blues
Beethoven, Sonata no. 7 in D major, Op. 10, No. 3
Chopin, Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58

Solo piano meets the visual arts in this compilation of piano pieces based on the visual arts in some way, from Couperin caricatures to Debussy prints to Mussorgsky paintings, with a stop on the Argentinean pampas along the way.

Couperin, Four caricatures from Pièces de clavecin
Ginastera, Danzas Argentinas
Debussy, Estampes
Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition

J. S. Bach, Partita No. 2 in C minor, BWV 826
Bela Bartok, Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm     
Mark Applebaum, Omnibus Etude
Sergei Prokofiev, Sonata No. 2 in D minor, Op. 14