Sessions, 3 A.M.

Year: 2023

Heading: for piano

Titles:
1. Nave
2. Narthex
3. Cornice
4. Chancel
5. Transept
6. Apse
7. Lunette
8. Lintel
9. Sacristy
10. Pediment
11. Frieze
12. Architrave
13. Vestry
14. Clerestory
15. Truss

Instrumentation: piano solo

Duration: 44:36

Press:
There are parallels with the simplicity of Erik Satie’s Gymnopédies; yet here Torke’s music is warm rather than hypnotic and detached. —The Listeners’ Club

In the days of Schubert, piano music was a prominent source of domestic entertainment. While Torke’s album functions as a meditative soundtrack, these pieces could renew the joys of live music in the home for countless amateur aficionados. —The Listeners’ Club

Sessions, 3 A.M. affords the listener repeated opportunities to appreciate Torke’s seemingly inexhaustible gift for melody. —Ron Schepper, Textura

…they’re atmospheric mood pieces, enticing, soothing, and contemplative—nocturnal reveries. A lovely recording, whose charm does much to argue on behalf of Torke’s music. Stripped bare, it’s no less beguiling than when dressed in ornate orchestral garb. —Ron Schepper, Textura

The inimitable pianist Michael Torke brings his timeless vision to these 15 originals that showcase incredible warmth and a strong attention to detail and fluidity. —Take Effect, Tom Haugen

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Release Date: November 3, 2023.

Band Arrangement: Lunette

Program Note:

Fifteen short piano pieces use order and symmetry to convey key architectural features of churches and cathedrals. The aim is to transcend the self to find peace, warmth, and respite.

Less certainty, more inquiry—Eric Seidel

The view that simplicity is a virtue in scientific theories and that, other things being equal, simpler theories should be preferred to more complex ones has been widely advocated in the history of science and philosophy… The claim is that simplicity ought to be one of the key criteria for evaluating and choosing between rival theories… However, simplicity can also be understood in terms of various features of how theories go about explaining nature—for example, a theory might be said to be simpler than another if it contains fewer adjustable parameters, if it invokes fewer extraneous assumptions, or it if provides a more unified explanation of the data.

Source: https://iep.utm.edu/simplici/#SH1a