To get the recording train rolling, here’s a recording of a lullaby of Brahms, one of my favorites. I made this recording to play with equalization settings, but liked the performance enough to keep it.

Johannes Brahms
Intermezzo Op 117 No 1

MP3 (5:58 / 6.8 M)

Thanks go to my good friend Geneviève, who introduced me to this piece about five years ago. She played it marvelously, and I’ve wanted to learn it ever since, though it took me until this spring to get around to it. So, finally, here it is. Enjoy.

As part of my general mission to increase the flow of bits hither and thither (and, from time to time, yon) across the Internet, I’m starting a music weblog. (That would be this.)

My initial goal is to post new recordings twice a week (!), every…oh, let’s say Tuesday and Saturday. Sometimes they’ll be recordings of compositions I’ve been learning (and, in some cases, writing), and the rest of the time, they’ll be pure improvisation. Hopefully the variety of old/new and polished/spontaneous will be enough to keep things interesting.

And yes, for the time being, it will all be piano solo. I’d like to post collaborations with other people on other instruments, but I don’t really have the means to much such recordings at home, at least not yet.

I’ll also be using this weblog to post the programs of my concerts, and give audience members a chance to post their feedback. Other creative suggestions for what I might post are, of course, quite welcome.

Enjoy!