A little love from England

English pianist, writer, and composer Melanie Spanswick wears many hats.  She performs, she composes, she interviews pianists, she reviews music for magazines, and she blogs.

And she had some very nice things to say about some of my music.

"American composer and teacher Rick Robertson has written a whole library of works for the piano.  Arietta and Nuit d'etoiles are late intermediate level pieces (for Grades 5-7), ad are both melodically interesting and eminently playable.  Nuit d'etoiles (Starry Night) reflects impressionistic colours with 'Ravelian' sweeps and a dreamily expressive melody. Arietta consists of bold thematic material, which is split between the hands, and accompanied by chords, building to a resounding climax; this is a passionate, beautiful piece.

Ms. Spanswick, I am honored.

This is "my" blog and not "hers", but even though I'm doing this to promote me, me, me - I would like to say that I have purchased a copy of her "Digressions" for piano - and I like them very much. Perhaps if I get my general-piano blog revved up again, I'll go into them in a little more detail. 

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