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Modern music that doesn’t suck (one in a series): Timothy Andres’ “Shy and Mighty”

Andres - High and Mighty

My new music recommendation for the day is Timothy Andres’s 2010 album on Nonesuch Shy and Mighty for two pianos.  The music is deceptively simple sounding, but when you listen more carefully it has quite a lot going on, and periodic “explosions” that force you to pay attention.

The composer is one of the pianists on the album, along with David Kaplan.  They are a formidable duo, with unearthly precision.  

I am especially fond of the track “Out of Shape.”

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  • Virtualfarmboy.com is Timothy Robson's personal blog. He was raised on a farm in Iowa in the '50s and '60s, but for most of the past 30 years he has lived in Cleveland, Ohio. He is trained as a classical musician and as a librarian, but his interests range far and wide. "You can take the boy off the farm, but you can't take the farm out of the boy."

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