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Jeffrey Biegel Premieres David Foster, with Bach, Mozart, Paderewski, Grieg and Chopin

April 23, 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 #7 on April 25 at 5pm EDT. This will include the World Premiere performances of David Foster's 'Eleven', nos. 4-11. Typically covering a wide range of styles, Mr. Biegel has chosen a program from J.S. Bach through Mozart, Chopin, Grieg, Paderewski and David Foster, composed in 2019. For those who know David Foster, his career spans composing, performing, producing, arranging, bringing artists to celebrity status and his David Foster Foundation. His music reflects his life as a musician, a touch of classics with his unique language of harmony, melody and sonic landscape. Thought their friendship, Mr. Biegel proudly shares this new music released this month from Mr. Foster's own recording, 'Eleven'.
 
 
David Foster: from 'Eleven' (nos. 4-11)
    Victorious, Elegance, Nobility, Wonderment, Orbiting, Romance,
    Dreams, Serenity
Bach: Toccata in E Minor BWV914
    Toccata
    Un Poco Allegro (a 4 voci)
    Adagio
    Allegro – Fuga (a 3 voci)
Mozart: Sonata in B-flat Major K.333
    Allegro
    Andante cantabile
    Allegretto grazioso
Paderewski: Nocturne in B-flat Major, Opus 16, no. 4
Grieg: In My Native Country, Opus 43, no. 3
Chopin: Scherzo no. 3 in C-sharp Minor, Opus 39
 
Jeffrey Biegel in performance: Chopin's Scherzo no. 3 in C-sharp Minor, Opus 39:

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 the Grieg selection: "A Pianist's Journey": https://jeffreybiegel.hearnow.com/
 

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