A few short improvisations

[ronde_des_sylphes]

One restful, one depressed and one a march turning manic..

[ted]

I like them all, especially the first, but my preference is not as important as the recent marked expansion of playing forms and different transitions and juxtapositions of ideas within one piece. There is much going on that is new for you. After much work you reach what might be termed a point of critical mass and begin to conceive completely new styles, as opposed to notes within styles, spontaneously; at least that is what I have found in respect to myself over the last fifteen years. However, I have never heard anything “mock”, as you put it, about your operatic paraphrase style, which seems to me a genuine embodiment of your own musical personality in the form. It doesn’t sound like Liszt and the rest, it sounds like Wright, which is the ideal outcome.

[volcanoadam]

They're all great, but I like most the last one. I like how you develop your ideas. Everything seems to bond nicely together into one, well structured piece. Well done!

[ronde_des_sylphes]

Thanks, I think that particularly in the longer improvisations I've arrived at a structural template where I'm using motif cells as a unifying mechanism. I've certainly been playing around with different harmonic and stylistic languages to my normal.