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Timo Andres

The Blind Banister

Nonesuch
Release Date: March 22, 2024

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2 The Blind Banister_Ringing Weights  
3 The Blind Banister_Coda_Teneramente  
4 Colorful History  
5 Upstate Obscura_Valley of Strange Shapes  
6 Upstate Obscura_Mazes and Mirrors  
7 Upstate Obscura_Vanishing Point  
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Nonesuch releases composer/pianist Timo Andres’ The Blind Banister on March 22, 2024. The album comprises three works by Andres: the composer’s third piano concerto, The Blind Banister, with Andres as soloist, and Upstate Obscura for chamber orchestra and cello, with soloist Inbal Segev—both of which feature Metropolis Ensemble and conductor Andrew Cyr—and the solo piano piece Colorful History, also performed by the composer. The third movement of Upstate Obscura, “Vanishing Point,” is available today.

The Blind Banister was written for pianist Jonathan Biss to be performed alongside Beethoven’s second concerto. Andres says, “My piece is not a pastiche or an exercise in palimpsest. It doesn’t quote or reference Beethoven. There are some surface similarities to his concerto (a three-movement structure, a B–flat tonal center) but these are mostly red herrings. The best way I can describe my approach to writing the piece is: I started writing my own cadenza to Beethoven’s concerto, and ended up devouring it from the inside out.” The piece was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2016.

  • WNYC: New Sounds - Geeking Out On P. Glass with Timo Andres
    Posted At: January 13, 2025
    WNYC - New Sounds writes….Brooklyn-based composer and pianist Timo Andres performs two of the Philip Glass Etudes, and nerds out about his work on a new special edition of the Philip Glass Piano Etudes.Pioneering composer and pianist Philip Glass is considered to be one of the founding fathers of minimalism - or as Glass describes it, “music with repetitive structures.” His hypnotic, meditative work has had...

  • Timo Andres - The Blind Banister makes 'NPR: The 10 Best Classical Albums of 2024'
    Posted At: January 7, 2025
    NPR's Tom Huizenga writes….Colorful History is a darkly textured, cyclically driven solo piano work played by Andres, while Upstate Obscura, a cello concerto, offers the attentive soloist Inbal Segevmost scorching summer on record. Still, in the midst of the chaos, I found astonishing beauty in many places: Simone Biles' performances at the Paris Olympics, the kaleidoscopic late-night aurora borealis light ...

  • Timo Andres developed a Beethoven cadenza for 'The Blind Banister.' It's a soul-stirring piano concerto / Blogcritics
    Posted At: August 7, 2024
    The Nonesuch album release: The Blind Banister' comprises three works by composer/pianist Timo Andres. His third piano concerto, The Blind Banister, with Andres as soloist, and Upstate Obscura for chamber orchestra and cello, with soloist Inbal Segev—both of which feature Metropolis Ensemble and conductor Andrew Cyr—and the solo piano piece Colorful History, also performed by the composer. The third movemen...

  • Timo Andres set for first visit to Santa Barbara's 'Music Academy of the West' / The Montecito Journal
    Posted At: July 9, 2024
    The Montecito Journal's STEVEN LIBOWITZ writes…..Timo Andres’ first visit to the Music Academy will include – for the fellows’ brass concert – the west coast premiere of the rising star pianist-composer’s “Land Lines” for triple brass quintet, as well as his “Tides and Currents” in the faculty concert at the Lobero. Andres once served on the judges panel for the fellows’ solo piano competition, then compose...

  • The irrepressible Timo Andres, on top of his game in: 'The Blind Banister' / GRAMOPHONE
    Posted At: April 23, 2024
    Nonesuch released composer/pianist Timo Andres’ The Blind Banister on March 22, 2024. The album comprises three works by Andres: the composer’s third piano concerto, The Blind Banister, with Andres as soloist, and Upstate Obscura for chamber orchestra and cello, with soloist Inbal Segev—both of which feature Metropolis Ensemble and conductor Andrew Cyr—and the solo piano piece Colorful History, also perform...

  • The magic of MAW features composer and pianist: Timo Andres / the Montecito Journal
    Posted At: April 2, 2024
    2023–24 season highlights for composer/pianist: Timo Andres include a recital debut for Carnegie Hall including the premiere of a new piece by Andres, Fiddlehead, and the New York premiere of Gabriella Smith’s Imaginary Pancake; a tour with the Calder Quartet including a new piano quintet by Andres, performed at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts, San Francisco Performances and Chamber Music Albuquerque; th...

  • Timo Andres - The Blind Banister. Original, arresting and eclectic / The Guardian
    Posted At: March 28, 2024
    Nonesuch released composer/pianist Timo Andres’ The Blind Banister on March 22, 2024. The album comprises three works by Andres: the composer’s third piano concerto, The Blind Banister, with Andres as soloist, and Upstate Obscura for chamber orchestra and cello, with soloist Inbal Segev—both of which feature Metropolis Ensemble and conductor Andrew Cyr—and the solo piano piece Colorful History, also perform...

  • Finally, we get a recording of Timo Andres' piano concerto. Worth the wait / NPR Music's 'Spring Preview'
    Posted At: March 12, 2024
    Nonesuch releases composer/pianist Timo Andres’ The Blind Banister on March 22, 2024. The album comprises three works by Andres: the composer’s third piano concerto, The Blind Banister, with Andres as soloist, and Upstate Obscura for chamber orchestra and cello, with soloist Inbal Segev—both of which feature Metropolis Ensemble and conductor Andrew Cyr—and the solo piano piece Colorful History, also perform...

  • NPR's 'Tiny Desk Concert' presents Timo Andres
    Posted At: January 31, 2024
    NPR's Tom Huizenga writes…..It's a longstanding tradition for musicians to leave a small something-or-other on the thoroughly disorganized wall of "stuff" that backdrops our Tiny Desk. My favorite is the Johann Sebastian Bach bobblehead.But now, move over Bach. Here comes Philip Glass.When Timo Andres arrived at our office to play a pair of etudes by Philip Glass, the director of Glass' publishing house, Ad...
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