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On February 5th 2021, Steinway & Sons will releases the debut solo-piano album from composer / pianist Lowell Liebermann, released in conjunction with his 60th birthday. The two-disc album, Personal Demons, is an immaculately curated program of works that have inspired and shaped Liebermann s musical career - the ones I wish I wrote, as he frames it in his own liner notes to the album - framed by three of Liebermann s own pieces that hold special significance for him.
This recording offers a first opportunity for many to hear how Liebermann interprets his own keyboard compositions, such as Gargoyles, which premiered in 1989 and more than 30 years later remains Liebermann s most-performed piano work; Apparitions, which borrows its title from Liszt and Walt Whitman but musically draws more inspiration from Brahms; and Nocturne No. 10, dedicated to the memory of Gian Carlo Menotti and described by Liebermann as the most personal of his 11 Nocturnes.