Polished piano portrait
Composer Alex Heffes takes to the keyboard to perform what is an impressive career showreel
Alex Heffes
Sudden Light – Themes for film and television (arr. solo piano)
Alex Heffes (piano) Silva Screen SILCD1686 49:39 mins
He is by no means the first composer to unpick their music for the screen and reimagine it on the piano keyboard, and stripping back pieces to their barest essentials can really expose both the music and the person and the BBC’s . He displays a seemingly easy pianism, too, and the arrangements – which include Rags and a Waltz – go far beyond the kind of keyboard meandering we might expect from a contemporary solo piano album. In this intimate piano self-portrait, Alex Heffes presents legitimate keyboard works that are complex in form and abundant in colour, light and shade. ★★★★★
