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Piano Sonata No.3 "The Forbidden"Joel Fan, piano
http://www.joelfanmusic.com/bio.html XI.2006 Fraser Performance StudioWGBH Boston128 kbs mp3 (no re-encoding)
Piano Sonata No.2 Russell Sherman, piano
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Sherman 2007The Tapestry Room Isabella Stewart Gardner MuseumBoston128 kbs mp3 (no re-encoding)
Trio I for Violin, Cello, and PianoQing Jang, pianoBryan Lee, violinKaren Kang, celloVII.13.2010Ravinia Festival256 kbs mp3 (no re-encoding)
Trio II for Violin, Cello, and PianoChameleon Arts Ensemble
http://www.chameleonarts.org/about/index.html Gloria Chien, pianoJoanna Kurkkowicz, violinRafael Popper-Keizer, cello III.26.2010The Goethe InstituteBoston256 kbs mp3 (no re-encoding)
For someone who had studied composition with Schoenberg and Sessions, and later enjoyed the financial security of tenured professorship at Harvard, Kirchner was a surprisingly conservative composer whose music is closer to the middle period Scriabin than to his illustrious teachers. Except for his works written for the piano, I don't find Kirchner's music particularly interesting or challenging, although I readily admit that it is very passionate, expertly crafted, and (to my ear) utterly sincere in every bar. As for his piano music, it is probably because Kirchner himself was an excellent pianist that his writing for the instrument - romantic in temperament, technically splashy, dynamically volatile - strikes me as being the most effective, communicative, and rewarding part of his creative output.
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