The Music Post: Piano Weekly Podcast

The Music Post: Piano Weekly

Sam Post
The Music Post is music, mostly new, mostly piano, delivered to you. Old episodes and occasional future episodes will explore a piece or a musical trend in more depth, and may feature conversations with other musicians.
4.4: Concerto Grosso for sextet and Bach Contrapunctus 11
A sextet prelude, composed in lockdown by yours truly, recorded and synced with the members of Kassia Music, and Bach's Contrapunctus 11 from the Art of Fugue.
Apr 25, 2020
4.3: Tribute to my late teacher Irena Orlov
Today would have been my former teacher's birthday. Today, I share a Prelude and Fugue composed in her honor, plus an elegy for those affected by the pandemic
Apr 19, 2020
4.2: Bach's Syncopations and a Quarantine Prelude
A prelude by me, inspired by Gabriela Montero, followed by a close look at the hidden rhythms in one of Bach's most famous pieces, the Prelude in C from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1.
Apr 12, 2020
4.1: Marc Chan's Fugues
A prelude by me, followed by a conversation with composer Marc Chan, and his fugue on the Disney theme "My Own Home" from the Jungle Book.
Apr 5, 2020
3.12: Ragtime Toccata #2
Ragtime toccata #2, composed and recorded in 2019
Mar 31, 2020
3.11: Shostakovich Prelude in C
The first Prelude from Shostakovich's set of 24 Preludes and Fugues
Mar 30, 2020
3.10: Gigue from "Syncopated Suite"
Last movement from a 2019 Suite in Neo-Baroque style
Mar 27, 2020
3.9: Pastoral Etude (Nikolai Kapustin)
Studio recording of the Pastoral Etude, Op. 40, #6 by Nikolai Kapustin
Mar 26, 2020
3.8: Improvisation (on the state of the world)
It's been a rough couple of days for me, for the country, for the world. A lament in music.
Mar 25, 2020
3.7: Prelude and Fugue in C# minor (Bach)
From the extreme of jubilance to the extreme of melancholy and frustration, to match my dire mood after Monday's news. J.S. Bach's Prelude and Fugue in C# Minor from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, recorded live in performance from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in 2019.
Mar 24, 2020
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