Peter Berger

Presenting Christmas Piano Music, the brand new Christmas album showcasing piano music from the 19th and early 20th centuries by Ferruccio Busoni, Charles Koechlin, Carl Nielsen and others. Featuring five world premiere recordings, the album by pianist Peter Froundjian is filled with atmospheric, special Christmas music including rarities by both well and lesser-known composers of Romantic piano music from the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Presenting Christmas Piano Music, the brand new Christmas album showcasing piano music from the 19th and early 20th centuries by Ferruccio Busoni, Charles Koechlin, Carl Nielsen and others. Featuring five world premiere recordings, the album by pianist Peter Froundjian is filled with atmospheric, special Christmas music including rarities by both well and lesser-known composers of Romantic piano music from the 19th and early 20th centuries.

The deftly titled 'Hand Painted Dream' is the culmination of guitarist/arranger/leader Peter Hand's work with some of the best musicians anywhere and whose collective efforts have produced an extraordinary testament to the best in modern big band music. With the supremely talented Camille Thurman contributing a track each on saxophone and vocals, the ensemble can easily be considered an "all-star" group, with trumpeters Eddie Allen and Valery Ponomarev, saxophonists, Don Braden, Bruce Williams, trombonist James Burton III and a dream rhythm section of James Weidman, Harvie S, Steve Johns and Hand himself. The resulting band is at once bold & beautiful, swinging and suave while consistently playing the imaginative arrangements with extraordinarily nuanced musicianship.