Book Review

Random Walks: Piano Music of David Kraehenbuehl. Diptych. Toccate per cembalo. A Formal Triad. Tombeau sopra B-A-C-H: Tombeau de Bach. Random Walks: Studies in Controlled Randomness. Looking Back: Twelve Images from My Past. Martha Braden, piano. Liner notes by Heidi Waleson. 2000. New World Records 80584-2.

Pianist Martha Braden is the leading advocate for David Kraehenbuehl's piano music. Recorded at the Warren Studios of the University of California, San Diego, in December of 1998, this excellent disc correlates to her own edited and published volume, Random Walks: The Collected Works for Solo Piano of David Kraehenbuehl (Braden Edition, 1999; rev. ed., 2000). Braden, who maintains a private piano studio in New York City, has devoted her professional career to furthering the piano music of living composers. At the early age of fourteen, she coached with Ross Lee Finney on his piano music. She was introduced to Finney through her piano teacher Frances Clark, whose working companion Louise Goss had studied with Finney at the University of Michigan.