Re-Inventions

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Classical Masterpieces by Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Strauss and more….re-invented

“… some of the most robust and resounding piano you will ever hear. ..Robin skillfully brings the masters right into your living room…” Contemporary Fusion Reviews

” The color, ambiance, and heavenly beauty of this music is brilliantly performed. I can guarantee if you appreciate piano solo music, you will fall in love with RE-INVENTIONS. I know it did not take me long!” Keith Hannaleck/thefinalonvinyl

“This is a very special collection and shows us a different side of Robin – she ‘re-invented’ herself!” – MAINLYPIANO.com

Release date November 20, 2020.  This recording is also available in a BEAUTIFUL limited deluxe vinyl edition. Each Vinyl edition comes with a FREE CD version. CLICK HERE for VINYL

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Track List: 1) Sonata No. 16 in C Major/Mozart, 2) Liebestraum (Love Dream)/Liszt, 3) Canon in D Major/Pachelbel, 4) Melody in F/Rubinstein, 5) Scenes from Childhood/Schumann, 6) The Skater’s Waltz/Waldteufel, 7) Prelude and Fugue No. 1 in C Major/J.S. Bach, 8) The Blue Danube Waltz/Strauss, 9) Piano Sonata No. 14 in C# Minor, first movement (Moonlight Sonata)/Beethoven, 10) Berceuse de Jocelyn/Godard, 11) The Merry Widow Waltz/Lehar, 12. Lullaby/Brahms, 13. Fantasie-Impromptu/Chopin, 14) Piano Sonata No. 8, 2nd movement (Sonata Pathétique)/Beethoven, 15) Serenade/Schubert

A note from Robin:

Like so many of you, I’ve been confined to home due to the pandemic. Isolated, but also inspired by the gift of time, I reached into my treasure trove of sheet music, where I discovered long-lost friends—classical piano scores that have always offered me comfort, companionship and peace.

As a young music student, my piano teacher once chastised me for improvising on a well-known classic. One afternoon, while I joyfully devised a new melody to a Chopin waltz, my teacher slapped my hand. He told me that while it was acceptable to improvise on a show tune, pop song, or American standard,  it was inappropriate to touch the music of the great masters. I didn’t know enough to question him.

Now, I do. History tells us that celebrated composers often held soirees where they concocted new ways to play one another’s pieces. Mozart himself said that he strove to never play his pieces the same way twice. By improvising on piano works created centuries ago, I honor the spirit of the great masters. Here, in my own piano room, on my newly refurbished 1896 Steinway—an instrument familiar with centuries of classics—I have given myself permission to reinvent them. In the process, I’ve reinvented myself. xo Robin

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