A member of Yo-Yo Ma's popular Silk Road Ensemble and an acclaimed solo performer in his own right, virtuoso pianist Joel Fan surveys the international keyboard repertoire in this 2006 collection and reveals his versatility in many styles, often with bravura playing. World Keys, Fan's debut album on Reference, is a survey of musical approaches from Europe, Asia, Australia, and the United States, reflecting Fan's personal interest in music of many countries, evidently fueled by his touring around the world. The mix of ...
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A member of Yo-Yo Ma's popular Silk Road Ensemble and an acclaimed solo performer in his own right, virtuoso pianist Joel Fan surveys the international keyboard repertoire in this 2006 collection and reveals his versatility in many styles, often with bravura playing. World Keys, Fan's debut album on Reference, is a survey of musical approaches from Europe, Asia, Australia, and the United States, reflecting Fan's personal interest in music of many countries, evidently fueled by his touring around the world. The mix of ethnically flavored miniatures with the western keyboard repertoire demonstrates Fan's broad, cosmopolitan outlook, yet the closer one listens to these pieces, it seems that national boundaries are less significant in the program than at first they might appear. There is a kind of mingling or overlapping of sounds and styles that occurs when these pieces are heard side by side, so it becomes difficult to define any particular scale, rhythmic pattern, harmony, sonority, or technique as...
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