Dark Dreams – for piano
for solo piano
Released 2008: Moods: Piano Music by American Women Composers, Max Lifchitz, piano, North/South Recordings
Audio features a concert recording by pianist, Desiree Bonitz at the 2016 Missouri State University Composition Festival
Dark Dreams was inspired by a painting by Jared FitzGerald. The germinating idea for the piece relates to the image of an angel in the moonlight wrestling with a shadowy figure. Dark Dreams extends the metaphor to the struggles with emotional demons confronted in life. – RW