Terry Lowry's Podcast: Recent Episodes
Terry Lowry
Terry Lowry shares original compositions and improvisations with works from the standard repertoire added from time to time.
This is my all-time favorite of Beethoven's 32 sonatas, the Hammerklavier. This is the fourth of four movements.
This is my all-time favorite of Beethoven's 32 sonatas, the Hammerklavier. This is the third of four movements.
This is my all-time favorite of Beethoven's 32 sonatas, the Hammerklavier. This is the second of four movements.
This is my all-time favorite of Beethoven's 32 sonatas, the Hammerklavier. This is the first of four movements.
This piece was written and given as a Christmas gift to my amazing wife, Tara. It was played beautifully by my very good friend, David Lloyd, who is the principal cellist with the Carroll Symphony Orchestra and plays with me in the chamber ensemble Atlanta by Six.
Day 9: Each day leading to Christmas I will release a recording from my Christmas album A Silent Night. Merry Christmas to all!
Day 8: The Carroll Symphony Orchestra presents a Christmas Pops concert each year, and I usually allow the audience to submit requests. After intermission, we roll out a grand piano and I play the most requested tunes. Here is a portion of the improvisation from last Thursday night, December 15, 2016. I include it in this series, on Christmas Eve, because it contains Clement Moore's "Twas the Night Before Christmas". (I very nearly remembered the poem!)
Day 7: Each day leading to Christmas I will release a recording from my Christmas album A Silent Night. Merry Christmas to all!
Day 6: Each day leading to Christmas I will release a recording from my Christmas album A Silent Night. Merry Christmas to all!
Day 5: Each day leading to Christmas I will release a recording from my Christmas album A Silent Night. Merry Christmas to all!
Day 4: Each day leading to Christmas I will release a recording from my Christmas album A Silent Night. Merry Christmas to all!
Day 3: Each day leading to Christmas I will release a recording from my Christmas album A Silent Night. Merry Christmas to all!
Each day leading to Christmas I will release a recording from my Christmas album A Silent Night. Merry Christmas to all!
Each day leading to Christmas I will release a recording from my Christmas album Silent Night. Merry Christmas to all!
Schubert's wonderful Impromptu in G-flat major is a favorite of mine and of many. I hope you enjoy.
This is my first podcast in a while. I've been thinking a lot about the music that I would like to share in the future, and while "Piano Lab" was a lot of fun, the new show "Tone Poem" will allow me to feature more orchestral, choral and other non-piano music. Of course, there will still be a good bit of piano music - especially music for piano and orchestra - but the new name will more accurately describe the show from now on.
The piece featured in this episode is a Tone Poem for piano, called Asleep. I've shared it before, but I thought it would be appropriate to share it once more as the first piece under the new podcast name. I hope you enjoy this piece, written when my oldest daughter was an infant. It was inspired by the many nights I spent rocking her to sleep.
This is a beautiful organ setting by Peter DeWitt of a very old Advent Noel, Bereden vag for Herran (Prepare the way, O Zion). The recording is from an organ recital that I gave on December 20. I hope you enjoy this and that you have a very Merry Christmas!
Today's piano lab features Debussy's wonderful Etude no. 11, "Pour les arpeges composé"
This is an improvisation on a theme provided by an audience member at a recital. I hope you enjoy!
This is a song cycle for bass-baritone and piano. John Ray wrote the text and asked me to set it to music. This recording is from a recital at the University of Alabama Birmingham that we gave together in 1998.
A two-part motet setting of Psalm 96, commissioned by RareSong, Patricia DeWitt, Director
"O For A Thousand Tongues", a solo hymn cantata on themes by Lowell Mason, written for and sung by my good friend Larry Frazier. Happy Easter!
An improvisation from an Atlanta by Six concert at the University of West Georgia. It includes my interaction with the young man from the audience who was brave enough to come on stage and give me a theme. I hope you enjoy!
An improvisation from a recent concert with Atlanta by Six. The other members took a short break after we performed Schubert's Trout Quintet. This one is a little different from my usual improvs. I hope you enjoy!
First Date is modern take on the Chopin style Nocturne. It has a beautiful melody over a steady, left hand accompaniment and provides the pianist with opportunities to explore the entire range of the piano. It also makes a great performance piece with plenty of passages that display the performer's technical abilities.
This is a piece for tuba quartet, performed by members of the University of Alabama tuba quartet.
Here is another improvisation on a theme from the audience from the Atlanta by Six concert at Eddie's Attic.
This is an improvisation on a theme from an audience member at Eddie's Attic. It begins with "Let it Be" because the woman from the audience made a comment about the Beatles. I eventually get around to playing a piece build on her theme. I hope you enjoy!
This is an improvisation on a set of notes given to me by a young boy at a program that I played earlier this week. I hope you enjoy.
This is the first piece from Atlanta By Six's concert on May 7 at Eddie's Attic. More to come and I hope you enjoy!
This an improvisation I recorded at the end of a recording session at Barbara Kirby Recital Hall in Atlanta. I hope you enjoy!
This week's podcast is the fourth in a series of original piano compositions entitled Psalmoi.
This week's podcast is the third in a series of piano compositions entitled Psalmoi. Thanks!
This week's podcast is the second in a series of compositions entitled Psalmoi. I hope you enjoy Psalmos no. 2.
This week I begin a series of podcasts featuring a set of original piano pieces entitled Psalmoi. Each individual piece is a Psalmos. I hope you enjoy the first of these seven compositions.
This week's podcast is another improvisation on a few notes provided by the audience at a recital on November 4. It was emailed to me by someone who recorded the performance on an iphone. If you would like to see the video, visit http://www.musicaloverture.com/videos/358174920
This week's podcast is a live recording of an improvisation on a theme provided by an audience member at one of my recitals.
One of my all time favorite pieces. Scriabin really breaks new ground - especially in terms of using the contrast between a perceived presence and a perceived absense of a beat (meter) as a structural element.
This is a new piano composition that I wrote for my composition teacher Dr. Peter DeWitt on the occasion of his retirement from Shorter University. It begins with the aria from the JS Bach's Goldberg Variations and continues with variations on the bass line.
One of my favorites. Notice the tribute to Bach - its really an embellished chorale (like the first prelude from WTC I, for instance). Chopin even adds a transposed B-A-C-H at 0:18 .
Here is a new improvisation. Thank you for downloading and I really you hope you enjoy. Thanks!
An improvisation on a theme given to me by a young audience member. She was trying to give me "Maria" from West Side Story, but missed. I liked her motive, though, and went with it. I hope you enjoy.
I enjoy closing my recitals by inviting a member of the audience to join me on stage and give me a short theme on which to create an improvisation. The audience seems to enjoy this moment in the performance and it allows me to connect with them in a special way. It is usually the highlight of the evening for me. Sometimes I am given a compact disc recording of the performance by the hall manager, which allows me to keep the improvisation as a momento of the evening.
I put a few of these improvisations on my album Stations of the Cross. Here is one. I hope you enjoy.
I composed this piece in 2006, while my first daughter was going through a period of restless nights. I happened to also be reading Kierkegaard's "The Sickness Unto Death". Both influenced this piece.
I enjoy closing my recitals by inviting a member of the audience to join me on stage and give me a short theme on which to create an improvisation. The audience seems to enjoy this moment in the performance and it allows me to connect with them in a special way. It is usually the highlight of the evening for me. Sometimes I am given a compact disc recording of the performance by the hall manager, which allows me to keep the improvisation as a momento of the evening.
I put a few of these improvisations on my album Stations of the Cross. Here is one. I hope you enjoy.