James Dillon's 'The Book of Elements' with Noriko Kawai, piano October 29, 2008

Composed between 1997 and 2002, The Book of Elements is a cycle for solo piano in five volumes. Volume V was the occasion of Dillon's second Royal Philharmonic Society Award for chamber-scale composition (this was followed by an unprecedented third Royal Philharmonic Society Award in 2005 for Dillon's Fourth String Quartet). In this North American premiere, Noriko Kawai, who performed the world premier of Volume II in 2001, plays piano in a manner that “adds up to something rich, strange and utterly riveting.”

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