Variations for piano and orchestra ...

The stunning performance by pianist William Black with the Albany Symphony Orchestra January 19, 1990, led by conductor Asher Raboy, drew the following from Ron Emery in the Times Union. "Black was quite wonderful in both piano works. Lees' Variations are freshly inventive, short, full of contrast, rather a Son of Rachmaninoff's Paganini Variations. The orchestra and piano carry on a dialogue, with the piano sometimes playing chordal patterns. The quasi-cadenza near the end with piano and percussion, and, later, low strings, was most convincing."

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