Four Pieces For Orchestra was composed by Hans Abrahamsen in 2000-2003. Programme note: In 1983 Hans Abrahamsen wrote the first seven of his Ten Studies for Piano. In the early eighties most composers who wrote for the piano were still making strenuous efforts to distance themselves from the instrument’s romantic past – for example treating it as a percussion instrument rather than exploiting its expressive, ‘singing’ potential. The piano’s modern identity as a mechanical, rational, emotionally ...