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Piano music forms a large part of the output of the Romanian composer Livia Teodorescu-Ciocanea (b. 1959), as you would expect of someone who has been playing the instrument since she was four. This first album of her music reveals a latter-day Impressionist, sensitive to half-light and petal-delicate tonal color - but she can also generate powerful surges of energy, and her musical portrait of Charlie Chaplin testifies to an impish sense of humor. Teodorescu's music explores spectralism, neoimpressionism and postmodernism with a powerful lyric and dramatic effect (Oxford music online). She is Professor of composition at the National University of Music Bucharest and Adjunct Associate Professor at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. She introduced a new musical poetics called hypertimbralism pursuing intertextuality based on timbre. Teodorescu has lectured at Illinois Urbana Champaign, Oslo, Monash and Huddersfield Universities. She has written over 60 works. Album Tracks 1. Endeavour Bells Fantasy for Piano Solo 2. Nocturniana Fantasy for Two Pianos on Chopin's Nocturne, Op. 27, No. 2 3. Sonatina for solo piano~I. Lento 4. Sonatina for solo piano~II. Con moto 5. Sonatina buffa Homage to Charlie Chaplin for piano duet~I. Larghetto. Allegro semplice 6. Sonatina buffa Homage to Charlie Chaplin for piano duet~II. Lento rubato 7. Sonatina buffa Homage to Charlie Chaplin for piano duet~III. Più mosso 8. Calypso Fantasy for Piano Solo 9. Piano Concerto No. 2, Lebenskraft, arranged for two pianos~I. Vivo 10. Piano Concerto No. 2, Lebenskraft, arranged for two pianos~II. Adagio 11. Piano Concerto No. 2, Lebenskraft, arranged for two pianos~III. Con spirito
