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Jeffrey Biegel Premieres Waltz of Hope #2 in 6th Saturday Concert At Home

April 16, 2020 | By Naturally Sharp Inc.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, pianist Jeffrey Biegel has performed recitals from his home every Saturday and will continue with concert #6 on April 18 at 5pm EST. This will include the World Premiere of his 'Waltz of Hope no. 2', composed on April 12, 2020.

 
Playlist:
David Foster: Eternity (from 'Eleven')
Jeffrey Biegel: Waltz of Hope no. 2 (composed April 12, 2020)
Vivaldi: Spring, from The Four Seasons (arranged Biegel)
Chopin: Waltz in A-flat Major, Opus 69, no. 1
Mendelssohn: Spinning Song, Opus 67, no. 4
Gershwin: Lullaby (1919)
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue (1924, original manuscript, arranged Dr. Alicia Zizzo)
 
Here are the YouTube videos for Waltz of Hope nos. 1 and 2:
 
https://youtu.be/q5GZLwR4-gk
 
 
https://youtu.be/j0jNzuCEM0w
 
 

Jeffrey Biegel created the first classical video live stream recitals in 1997, in New York's Steinway Hall and in Amsterdam. In 2000, one of the largest consortiums of orchestras had its premiere with Ellen Taaffe Zwilich's 'Millennium Fantasy' taking the new work to 27 orchestras throughout the US. Mr. Biegel brought new American works to Canada and Europe in co-commissioning projects, and tapped into pop music composers to write new works for piano and orchestra for him, including Jimmy Webb, and bringing concertos to the public in performances and recording by Neil Sedaka and Keith Emerson. His eye is currently on a large commissioning project for 2024, already in the planning stages since prior to the Covid-19 pandemic. With fervent prayer, he hopes this can happen. His most recent recordings include the Grammy winning recording, 'Kenneth Fuchs: Spiritualist', featuring Mr. Fuchs's piano concerto, 'Spiritualist' with three additional works on the recording with the London Symphony Orchestra and JoAnn Falletta conducting (Naxos label), and two solo digital recordings, 'A Pianist's Journey' which features more then three hours of solo piano repertoire, and, the 'live' unedited recordings from the 1997 online concerts at Steinway Hall, 'cyberecital: An Historic Recording'.

For more information, please visit www.jeffreybiegel.com and his YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/biegel88/

Link to David Foster's new recording, "Eleven": https://lnk.to/DF_Everlasting
Link to Jeffrey Biegel's recording of Vivaldi: https://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.570031
Link to Jeffrey Biegel's recording including the Chopin and Mendelssohn selections: "A Pianist's Journey": https://jeffreybiegel.hearnow.com/
Link to Jeffrey Biegel's recording of "Rhapsody in Blue" with orchestra: https://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.573490
 
 

 
 
 

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