Brian Crain - Piano Opus (2009)

"When I started working on my album Piano Opus in the summer of 2008, I didn't have the faintest idea what I wanted to compose. This being my thirteenth album, I found it challenging to write something fresh. I listened to many other composers in an effort to spark inspiration. I was surprised by how many albums lose their appeal after the first few songs. So I set out to create a solo piano album that can keep the listener's interest all the way through. I found that one of the main reasons so many other composers' songs sounded similar was that they were written in the same time signatures. Most music is written in 4/4 or 3/4 time. So I set out to write a song in complex time. I chose 5/4 for my first attempt. I didn't realize how difficult it would be to play in 5/4, let alone compose in it. I carried on my experiment for a couple of months until I composed the song titled Wind."

"After the exhausting work of composing in 5/4, I tried to go back to composing in common time (4/4 or 3/4), but I now felt more comfortable writing in complex time. So I continued my complex time adventure and wrote an additional song in 5/4, then three in 7/8 and one in 11/8. I was having so much fun that I often wondered if others would think that I was off my rocker. I hope you think I'm still rocking ;)" ~ Brian Crain (From CD insert)

Tracklist:

01. Wind - Solo Piano (4:26)
02. Earth - Solo Piano (4:18)
03. Water - Solo Piano (4:23)
04. Fire - Dual Piano (4:25)
05. Rain - Dual Piano (4:32)
06. Spring - Solo Piano (2:03)
07. Summer - Dual Piano (3:33)
08. Autumn - Dual Piano (4:25)
09. Winter - Dual Piano (3:53)
10. Snow - Solo Piano (3:48)
11. Ice - Dual Piano (4:25)
12. Pachelbel's Canon in D - Solo Piano (5:12)