Parts Unknown

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#		Title	Length
1		Parts Unknown 1: Prologue	9:32	Play
2		Parts Unknown 2: Soliloquy	4:45	Play
3		Parts Unknown 3: Intermezzo	1:28	Play
4		Parts Unknown 4: Toccata	3:18	Play
5		Parts Unknown 5: Adagio	4:04	Play
6		Parts Unknown 6: Allegro	4:17	Play
7		Parts Unknown 7: Waltz	2:50	Play
8		Parts Unknown 8: Fantasy	3:23	Play
9		Parts Unknown 9: Etude	3:40	Play
10		Parts Unknown 10: Senza Tempo	3:56	Play
11		Parts Unknown 11: Melodramma	6:39	Play
12		Parts Unknown 12: Night Rider	7:30	Play

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Description

Richard Trythall is a composer-pianist who is equally at home in the standard classical piano repertoire and the twentieth century avant-garde repertoire. In addition to his compositions for piano, he has composed numerous chamber and orchestral works and was a pioneer in developments of "musique concrte" during the 1970's. His piano compositions reflect all of his varied musical experiences combining his interest in new forms and expression with his love for the Romantic character piece and the Impressionistic tone-poem to create a music which is melodic and emotional, yet shaped in a contemporary and original manner.

He writes the following about "Parts Unknown":
Although there was no clear extra-musical program in my mind while composing "Parts Unknown", it is also true that I selected the notes as much for their dramatic potential as for their structural possibilities. Each piece was 'born' (often through improvisation) with a clearly defined emotional character and I found that as I ordered these characters into a larger sequence, a strong sense of dramatic consequence developed among them - as if each piece were a scene in an unknown dramatic work which, though divided in parts, was nevertheless an emotional whole. In fact, what fascinated me about creating an hour long composition was the dramatic construction - the rhythm of the emotions - in a work where composition and story telling are one and the same and where any material which serves these purposes is freely used without limit or restriction.

The Italian newspaper "Il Tempo" had this to say following a complete performance of "Parts Unknown":
...To this listener, Trythall's work resembled a multi-surfaced kaleidoscope of colors.... His style is, in fact, similar to a river which, in flood, tows away a variety of objects and things, mixing them with little coherence as in a dream vision where syntactic and lexical relationships are, by definition, loosened. It is an iridescent and many faceted game of musical images in constant alternation.... (Il Tempo, Rome, December 11, 1991)

The German newspaper "Elbe-Jeetzel Zeitung" had this to say about "Night Rider":
...an impetuous, audacious piece... awakens memories of dense African percussion music. (Elbe-Jeetzel Zeitung, Schreyahner Festival, November 10, 1997)

"Parts Unknown" was begun in 1989 and completed in 1991. It is articulated in 12 movements:

Prologue
Soliloquy
Intermezzo
Toccata
Adagio
Allegro
Waltz
Fantasy
Etude
Senza tempo
Melodramma
Night rider

This performance was recorded "live" by the "Fondazione ATOPOS" on December 4, 1999, in Pieve a Sietina, Italy. The CD was produced in 2004 as part of that Foundation's prestigious series of contemporary music recordings. The compositions are copyrighted by the composer. The sound recording is copyrighted by "Fondazione ATOPOS" (www.atoposmusic.com).