Fazıl Say’s Black Earth: How One Piano Imitates a Turkish Saz

Kapustin’s Toccatina, Op. 40 No. 3: Jazz Feel Written into the Score

Arvo Pärt’s Für Alina: How Very Few Notes Change the Sense of Time

Takemitsu’s Rain Tree Sketch II: Making Silence Part of the Score

Ligeti’s Désordre: How Two Hands Live in Different Times

John Cage’s Sonatas and Interludes: When the Piano Becomes a Percussion Orchestra

Messiaen’s Regard de l’Esprit de joie: How to Hear the Rhythm of Ecstasy

Shostakovich’s Prelude and Fugue in D Minor: How a Cycle Reaches Its Final Word

Gershwin’s Three Preludes: How a Classical Piano Speaks in Jazz Rhythm

Florence Price’s Fantasie Nègre No. 1: How a Spiritual Enters a Large Piano Narrative