About This:

Oni Buchanan's Portraits, Pictures & Prints for Piano CD presents a stylistically wide range of solo piano works inspired by the visual arts. The CD features a set of four Couperin keyboard pieces (caricatures), Ginastera's Argentinean Dances (portraits in dance), the Debussy Estampes (prints), and the famous Pictures at an Exhibition by Mussorgsky. Musical versions of such diverse visual art genres as landscapes, caricatures, portraits, sketches, and woodblock prints, composed by such varied composers as Couperin, Ginastera, Debussy, and Mussorsky, make this disc a rare compilation. The music will transport its listeners on a voyage through time and place, introducing them to such characters as the seductive dancers of a Spanish soiree, a lonely Argentinean maiden, and a ballet troupe of unhatched chicks, while showing them vistas as exotic and sonically distinct as a valley of Japanese pagodas, the Parisian catacombs, and the Argentinean pampas.