0:00 | 1. Fanfare and Tuckets

1:22 | 2. Arioso

6:47 | 3. Dance

“Triptych” (1999) for piano duet (one piano, four hands) is an early work and dedicated to the composer’s high school piano duet partner, Robert Blake. The three brief movements explore contrasting moods. “Fanfare and Tuckets” uses typical fanfare gestures. “Arioso” is a slow ostinato aria, where the unchanging ostinato is joined by small melodic patterns, often in tiny canons. “Dance” is fast and in mixed meter, inspired by the Bohemian furiant, especially the examples in Dvorák’s “Slavonic Dances” (a classic of the piano duet literature). The theme of the first movement returns in the coda.