This second piano sonata is a major work whose three movements, running nearly an hour long, gradually revealing a phenomenological inner logic and brittle clarity that derives from Gertrude Stein’s 1934 lecture Composition as Explanation. I began writing it in 1996 and finished only ten years later; you can read more about this on my blog.

Score available from Frog Peak Music and from Lulu.com. • Soundfile available from Vibedeck.com

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