PHOENIX | THE ARTS FUSE

November Short Fuses – Materia Critica
Classical Music

“Pianist Stewart Goodyear’s latest disc, Phoenix, frames a series of favorite keyboard pieces by Claude Debussy and Modest Mussorgsky with a set of contemporary works that are just as bracing and characterful.

Two of them are by Goodyear, himself: Congatay and Panorama. Both are extroverted and vigorous. The former’s insistent, motoric figures belie a cheerful, good-natured character, while the latter’s exuberance makes for a rousing closer.”