Haven't done one of these in a while...
Look to the bottom of this page for the "Sunday Improvisations"
Click here for one I recorded on a found piano in 1991 or 1992
(just found the tape). 6.31.05: Just found this tape, too, of what I think is me in Atlanta in 1997. I found this unlabeled tape among other tapes of my stuff, but I am not 100% certain that this one is me. If you recognize is at something else let me know.

Adolphe Henselt - Etudes caracteristiques, Op. 2, No. 12

Full of sighs, memories.
Anxious, alas.
The heart convinces me (or defeats me).

Sergei Rachmaninoff - Moments Musicaux, Op. 16, No. 5

Alexander Scriabin - Four Preludes, Op. 37

1. Mesto - 2. Maestoso, fiero - 3. Andante - 4. Irato impetuoso

Frederic Chopin - Mazurka, Op. 17, No. 3 (Take 2)
Frederic Chopin - Mazurka, Op. 17, No. 3 (Take 1)

These two takes are pretty different. The second is closer to what I had in mind when I first learned this piece. The first take, I'm told, sounds more like Satie than Chopin.

Alexander Scriabin - Etude, Op. 42 No. 7
Alexander Scriabin - Etude - Op. 2, #1

Frederic Chopin - Mazurka, Op. 6, No. 2
Frederic Chopin - Etude - Op. 10, #1
Frederic Chopin - Prelude, Op. 45
Frederic Chopin - Nocturne in B-Flat Minor - Op. 9, #1
Frederic Chopin - Nocturne in E Minor - Op. 72

Philip Glass - Opening, from "Glassworks"
Philip Glass - Wichita Vortex Sutra

I played this piece at The Bitter End as part of a Beat Poets festival. I felt like a rock star.

Charles Alkan - Song of the Mad Woman on the Seashore
Charles Alkan - Le Premier Billet Doux

Felix Mendelssohn - Hunting Song

Nikolai Medtner - Quotres Contes, Op. 26 No. 1

Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji - In the Hothouse

Charles Ives - "Hawthorne"
    Second movement of Ives' "Concord" Sonata

Robert Helps - Valse Mirage (1977)

Octavio Pinto - Tom Thumb's March

Modeste Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition (excerpts)

Henry Cowell - The Tides of Manuanaun

Sunday Improvisations

> First notes I ever played on my Roland HP 237R digital piano

> Enjoying myself immensely, like I was Chabrier

> I can not listen to any more complaining tonight

> I am going to wake you up from your bed

> Trying to tell her I don't like her any more

> Tired and alone on Christmas Eve

> Silent night, holey night

> Giddy-Up. Giddy-Up. Giddy-Up. Let's go.

> For the kids I might have had 5 or 6 years ago

> At the end of one of the worst days of my life

> Meeting a stranger on the street and talking

> Walking around Atlanta on a very hot day

> Dropping everything and picking it up again

> Pretending I wrote the "Warsaw Concerto"

> Waiting for the pornographic video to rewind

Sorabji?
Why this site is named Sorabji.com, and what this site has to do with Kaikhosru Sorabji.

  Mark A. Thomas, pianist