'This music deserves the widest acclaim, for its optimistic, heroic aesthetic is immediately accessible yet never commonplace.' International Piano

Gabriel Jackson

Piano Sonata

Forces or Category: Solo piano

for solo piano
Utilizing the standard 3 movement sonata outline, Jackson employs a variety of textures to great effect in this piece. In the first movement alone, the music employs homophonic, unison, canonic and monophonic textures. The work is technically demanding and moves through a variety of moods and tempos.

'This music deserves the widest acclaim, for its optimistic, heroic aesthetic is immediately accessible yet never commonplace.' International Piano

Piano Sonata

Gabriel Jackson

Description

Programme Notes:

"All music is about other music". It was Louis Andriessen, I think, who said this - it is certainly the sort of thing he would say! - and this very Stravinskian notion is one that informs much of work. While my Piano Sonata is certainly about the piano itself â its power, its myriad of colours, its delicacy and its contrapuntal clarity â it is also about the piano's literature; the great sonatas of Chopin and Lizst, of Rachmaninov, Prokofiev and Tippett are always present in the

'This music deserves the widest acclaim, for its optimistic, heroic aesthetic is immediately accessible yet never commonplace.' International Piano

Piano Sonata

Gabriel Jackson

Composer Information