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"Chopin's Ghosts" CD on Amazon.comMulti-award-winning composer Paul Reale has a distinctly American voice, enriched and given touches of familiarity through references to folk idiom and musical ancestors such as Bartók and Kodály. This program brings together Reale's works for cello and piano. His earliest, Séance, is a haunting combination of modernist sounds and Baroque melodies. The operatic Cello Sonata No. 1 daringly uses What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor as the backbone of its finale, and the recent Chopin's Ghost explores the Romantic composer's long, weaving lines and evokes his poetic spirit.https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07B12HMG1# "Children's Palace" CD on Amazon.comFROM THE COMPOSER - I have always thought of wind chamber music as fanciful problem solving. From the environment of the serenades by Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to Igor Stravinsky's Octet, there is a kind of lighthearted agility that underlines the music, not that it is superficial, but it can have great weight like Mozart's Serenade in C minor, K.388. Wind quintet music stands in sharp contrast to the implied gravitas of string quartets and their concomitant sweatiness. The biggest influence in my wind writing, overall, is probably the music of French composers of the last century. There is an almost neo-classical balance in the progress of materials in those works. The title I have chosen for the album, Children's Palace, has an oblique reference to Maurice Ravel s L'enfant et les sortilèges. In Ravel's one-act opera, familiar objects come to life and assume dramatic personae. My wind instruments in these sonatas develop lifelike qualities as each piece proceeds. The word Sonata implies abstract structural procedures. Here, the pieces are more like tiny dramas.click here for more info "Vienne et après" CD on Apple MusicA collection of works celebrating German and Austrian piano music from the 20th and 21st centuries.
To order a CD, please contact Christopher Guzmanclick here for more info Après un rêveMusic for Violin and Piano by Debussy, Fauré, and Franck, with violinist Max Zorin. click here for more info Other Links
Northwestern's Bienen School of MusicMr. Guzman is a Professor of Piano at Northwestern University, located in Evanston, IL.click here for more info Vivace Music FoundationSummer music festival in Wilmington, NC. Join Mr. Guzman and other esteemed faculty from the prestigious music schools in the country.https://vivacemusicfoundation.org Grant Park Music FestivalChicago's summer orchestra, located in Millenium Park, where Mr. Guzman performs alongside members of important North American orchestras. https://www.grantparkmusicfestival.com Scales of Success PodcastPodcast interview with Marcus Arredondo, discussing "Music’s Beauty and Burden"https://youtu.be/mc286gwl4Rk