Fred Lerdahl Volume 7: Inner Life; Quattro Mani <br> BRIDGE 9582Fred Lerdahl's "Inner Life" is a cycle of three pieces for two pianos, composed between 2020 and 2022. The work was written for and dedicated to the spectacular duo Quattro Mani (pianists Steven Beck and Susan Grace). Lerdahl refers to the composition as "my pandemic piece". During the course of the 50 minute cycle, the music moves between contemplative moodiness, and brilliant outbursts of glittery virtuosic figuration. This recording documents a

This is Not a Story (2017) for clarinet

and the blues-soaked string quartet Black Bend

Ron Brough

There are passages here and there from which the connoisseurs alone can derive satisfaction

In these performances style and sensual beauty go hand in hand

Aaron Jay Kernis

with similar uses of repetition and recurrence

The extent to which this was unnecessary is quite clear from an excellent Bridge Records recording of Brahms’ two cello sonatas

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Since then the ensemble has performed throughout the USA and has recorded for Dorian

and dazzling colors

Mad Regales (2007) for six solo voices