Petrushka and Barber

I've been listening to Pandora stations while I code, and made a "David Newman" channel.  He wrote "Once Upon a December" from Anastasia, which came up when I was listening to the "La La Land" channel.  

The "David Newman" channel is an odd mix of film scores and 20th century piano music.  The channel just played "Petrushka", a piece for piano solo by Igor Stravinsky.  I didn't know Igor Stravinsky wrote any piano music, and I thought it was pretty interesting.  It's very difficult, and fairly long, so I would never be able to actually play it, but I wanted to make note of it here, so I can come back later if I want.

Here's a link to the song on youtube.



I also ran into some piano music by Samuel Barber.  I've only known him by his "Adagio For Strings", but he's got some interesting piano stuff, including these three sketches.  Each one is fairly simple, and about a minute long.  A lot more like something I would play, I think.

All three have interesting countermelodies in them.  Movement 1 is a waltz; Movement 2 is a slow waltz with some interesting chord progressions; Movement 3 sounds like something by chopin.

Movement 1; Movement 2; Movement 3