2 Scherzos

Recorded by Invencia Piano Duo (Andrey Kasparov and Oksana Lutsyshyn) on a collection of Hailstork's piano music, Ignis Fatuus, the Two Scherzos are markedly dissimilar. Writes Lori Laitman at www.artsongupdate.org, "The modern musical language in the first Scherzo is woven around a boogie-boogie base with intense, powerful energy after a repeated quiet figure opening. The second Scherzo has a freer form with brief quiet passages contrasted with sections of grand pianism with many quick notes." For advanced pianists.