Untitled: Solo Piano (CD)

Untitled: Solo Piano is the latest album from pianist Alex Raineri, who has toured Australia performing with superstar clarinetist and fellow Universal artist, Andreas Ottensamer. The music consists of a single work in 24 movements, Untitled: Solo Piano by award-winning composer Lyle Chan, whose acclaimed music has been commissioned by Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Australian National Academy of Music. Spanning three decades in a story lived across three continents, Untitled: Solo Piano is a memoir and a testament to the belief that music is the sound that feelings make. The music and the stories behind it are episodes from a life. They remember friends and romances who shaped the composer’s life, and bring healing from global trauma, including the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the climate change bushfires, and Covid-19 as experienced by someone who became radicalized as an AIDS activist when he discovered his first boyfriend was HIV positive. What emerges is an irresistible music of meditation, melody and joy.