NED ROREM (b.1923): Piano Album I, 6 Friends.

Description: The Album is a collection of 1-2 minute pieces, fitting one per page, of tributes to friends (15 of them to his partner of 32 years) written between 1978 and 2001. Slow, gentle and lyrical, they create an atmosphere of tender tranquillity. Six Friends does the same in pieces dating from 2006 and 2007. Carolyn Enger (piano).