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Steinway artist, Chad Lawson, decided Chopin needed a new introduction.  Along with violinist Judy Kang (Lady Gaga, Ryuichi Sakamoto) and cellist Rubin Kodheli (Kanye West, Norah Jones), Lawson has arranged ten Chopin works into a minimalist landscape.

It's a risk editing the "poet of the piano" but one that Chopin would be proud of.  

Taking 10 Chopin works, Lawson decided to scale the works down to a minimalist setting.  "I knew even if bare-bones, Chopin's works could still be as spellbinding as the original compositions we are so familiar with." says the pianist.  

Produced by Chad Lawson & Alejandro Clavijo. Mixed by Stephen Lee Price.  Mastered by Michael Graves of Osiris Studios (Atlanta, GA).

Chopin Nocturne in F Minor-Op. 55, No 1 (Variation) Piano, Violin, Cello - Chad Lawson

Gymnopédie no.1 - Erik Satie

She Neva Knows ( Piano Version )

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Some works are so familiar that it is almost impossible to hear them afresh, but that is what Max Richter has achieved with Vivaldi “Recomposed”. This is no mere arrangement; instead Richter has absorbed Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons into his own musical bloodstream. At first Richter followed the example of other works in the “Recomposed” series, which re-mix existing recordings, but, he says, “I wanted to open up the score on a note-by-note level, and working with an existing recording was like digging a mineshaft through an incredibly rich seam, discovering diamonds and not being able to pull them out. That became frustrating. I wanted to get inside the score at the level of the notes and in essence re-write it, re-composing it in a literal way.”Richter calculates that, in the process, he has discarded around three-quarters of Vivaldi’s original. He opens with what he describes as “a dubby cloud which I’ve called Spring 0. It functions as a sort of prelude, setting up an electronic, ambient space for the first Spring movement to step into. I’ve used electronics in several movements, subtle, almost inaudible things to do withthe bass, but I wanted certain moments to connect to the whole electronic universe that is so much part of our musical language today.” Other resonances are no less unexpected: Richter describes part of the first movement of his Summer as “heavy music for the orchestra. It’s relentless pulsed music, which is a quality that contemporary dance music has; and perhaps I was also thinking about John Bonham’s drumming. Then, in the second movement of Autumn I asked the harpsichordist Raphael Alpermann to play in what is a rather old-fashioned way, very regularly, rather like a ticking clock. That was partly because I didn’t want the harpsichord part to be attention-seeking, but also because that style connects to various pop records from the 1970s where the harpsichord or Clavinet was featured, including various Beach Boys albums and the Beatles’ Abbey Road.” Clearly, Richter has brought his own frame of reference to the project. As he says, “Vivaldi’s music is made of regular patterns, and that connects with post-minimalism, which is one strand in the music that I write. That felt like a natural link, but even so it was surprisingly difficult to navigate my way through it. At every point I had to work out how much is Vivaldi and how much is me. It was difficult but also rewarding because the raw material is so fascinating.”Just as Richter’s Seasons plays tricks with the way we hear Vivaldi’s original, so it also asks questions of the soloist, Daniel Hope. “Violinists have Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons hardwired in their brain. Daniel is likely to play the original I don’t know how many times in a year, and for him to have my parallel text going on in another part of his brain is a challenge. I think he did a wonderful job. He brought to it a deep engagement with the original, but he was fully prepared to cut this new swathe through the text.”


Spring One - Vivaldi Recomposed - The Four Seasons

Spring 1 (2012)

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Eine Klassik für Sich 2012

Richter: Recomposed By Max Richter: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons: Summer 3 (2012)

Bristol Proms

Richter: Recomposed By Max Richter: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons: Autumn 2 (2012)

Recomposed By Max Richter: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons

Richter: Recomposed By Max Richter: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons: Winter 1 (2012)

From the award winning album, The Piano, this is my variation on Bach's Prelude in C Major.  

Variation on Preludium in C Major (Bach)

From the award winning release, The Piano, Nocturne in A Minor is an original composition by Steinway artist, Chad Lawson.

Nocturne in A Minor

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Monstercat Piano Mix

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From the album, The Piano, this is Lawson's original composition Ballade in C Minor. Buy the album on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-piano/id472229253

Ballade in C Minor

From the 2013 release, The Space Between, by composer/pianist Chad Lawson.  A short preview of the album.  That's Rubin Kodheli on cello (Kodheli wrote his own cello arrangement).  

Falling Together (The Space Between 2013) - Chad Lawson

Okay, 1 full track from my upcoming release in June 2013.  The album was written in 1 day with the exception of 2 songs, this being one of the two (wrote/recorded yesterday).

This will be on the upcoming release June 2013.  Stay tuned or go to facebook.com/chadlawsonmusic 

A Love is Born - Chad Lawson (from The Space Between 2013)

Sample tracks from the newly released, The Space Between.

01. I Know a Love So True and Fair - The Space Between Sample

04. A Love is Born - The Space Between Sample

From my 2013 release, The Space Between, enjoy the traditional piece Ave Maria performed by Chad Lawson (piano) and Rubin Kodheli (cello).  This is a free download, please share. 

Recorded/Mixed: Chad Lawson
Mastered: Michael Graves of Osiris Studio, Atlanta GA

Ave Maria by Chad Lawson / Free Download (from The Space Between)

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Variation on Preludium in C Major (Bach)

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