Supersonic Flora

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For his new CD and concert tour SUPERSONIC FLORA, composer Walter Hus revisited some of the key works of his career and turned them into brand new spectacular solo piano pieces.

The music on the CD ranges from Walter Hus’ most radical and minimalist inspired compositions from the eighties, through more rounded and melodically oriented music from the nineties to a freshly written jazzy piece in memory of a friend.

All of his music was originally written for multiplayer combinations like string quartets or orchestras and had never been intended to be played using only ten fingers !

“ I see SUPERSONIC FLORA mainly as a present to myself. For long I had been projecting an entirely new recital programme based on my ensemble works from the past. I made a selection of pieces I particularly liked , pieces I wanted to be in physical contact with, pieces that were playable and would sound great on the piano. This proved to be not so easy. I had to do some serious rewriting as most of the original music had strong contrapuntal tendencies. The combination of a network of multiple interweaving voices with a steady ongoing rhythm made it quite complex to recreate the same music in the scope of two hands on the piano !”

“At the same time, I wanted to be free in rewriting this music for the piano, not limiting myself to a simple transcription of notes... So I took liberties ! It felt as if the years separating me from the time of their creation came looking over my shoulder and crept into these new versions. All the evolutions and adventures I had undergone since then made me discover the pieces again and transform them into something new.”