John Wilson, piano
Repertoire
Michael Tilson Thomas: Upon Further Reflection
Earl Wild: 7 Virtuoso Etudes after Gershwin
Aaron Copland: Piano Sonata
A close collaborator of MTT’s since 2015, John Wilson’s solo debut album features the world-premiere recording of the title track, MTT’s three-movement suite for piano, Upon Further Reflection. MTT explains innumerable influences that are embedded throughout the work, including the piano music of Debussy and Schumann, bossa nova, gamelan, ragas, Monteverdi, Berg and Peggy Lee’s rendition of the song Alley Cat, all of which “flowed together in a way that seemed completely natural… to me anyway.”