Product Description The featured keyboard artist from Mannheim Steamroller scores again with this stunning new recording of his original keyboard works. Jackson Berkeys colorfully descriptive piano music from Cape May, New Jersey continues on this pristinely recorded CD from SDG Records. Atlantic Fantasy and its companion pieces, Cape May Solitudes, were written between 1999 and 2003 during Jacksons writing sabbaticals at "Colvmns By The Sea", a former B&B in Cape May, New Jersey. This new SDG CD, along with its correlated publications from SDG Press, brings new major works to the piano repertoire of the 21st Century. Jackson Berkeys performances reveal a mature artist and composer, often in a very contemplative, reflective mood. The title work, Atlantic Fantasy, is comprised of six sections, seamlessly connected in a 20-minute, masterful display of pianism. The composers collection of reminiscences, Cape May Solitudes, provides deep reflections on those parts of our lives no longer with us. People, places, and pets are brought to life through music combined with the natural sounds of the Atlantic ocean, winter winds, seagulls, and the return of the LUltima Amor chimes from the composer-pianists earlier CD, Cape May Preludes. Review "The Jackson Berkey "ATLANTIC FANTASY" is an excellent addition -- quite modern in mood, but very easy on the ear. -- John Ray JordanKEDM, Music Librarian and Classical Music Announcer About the Artist JACKSON BERKEY COMPOSER ~ PIANIST Jackson Berkeys published catalog offers over 350 compositions for solo voice, solo instruments, choir, orchestra, and chamber groups. Premières of commissions have been performed on university campuses and concert stages and by professional musicians, as well as massed childrens choirs. Awards and honors include the Nebraska Individual Artist Fellowship for Performing Arts Distinguished Achievement in Composition Award, First Prize in the New Music for Young Ensembles Composition Contest in New York City, First Prize at the Alienor Harpsichord Competition in Hilton Head (NC). His compositions have been performed in North and South America and in Europe and Asia. He has composed the music scores for all of the international and national award-winning American Visions video series of national parks. His commissions include fine soloists and ensembles from New York to Asia. Recent premières include his Organ Concerto and Conversations for Harp and Chamber Orchestra. Jackson is best-known nationally as a pianist and recording artist. He is the featured keyboardist on the Mannheim Steamroller Fresh Aire and platinum Christmas recordings. His solo classical albums; Sunken Cathedral, Ballade, and 109; have brought rave reviews, as have the piano concerto movements recorded on the American Gramaphone The Mozart Collection with John Rutter and the City of London Sinfonia. SDG Records released Harpsichord Carols with harpsichordist Berkey and harpist Kathy Bundock Moore and Berkey Meets Horowitz on the 503 with Jackson performing his Piano Derivations and American Perspective One on the Horowitz Steinway. His newest solo recordings on SDG Records include Cape May Preludes, Facets, and Atlantic Fantasy (2004). Jacksons solo classical and original compositions appear on American Gramaphone Records Holiday Musik and Renaissance Holiday.ASIN: B0006FMJRGVSKU: GGV.B0006FMJRG.LNCondition: Like NewBinding: Audio CD
