Fantasies & Delusions

Occupation

• Piano: Richard Joo

Fantasies & Delusions is the first studio album by American musician Billy Joel with classical compositions. The piano pieces of work published in 2001 have been recorded by pianist Richard Joo.

Background

The album was recorded in the Cove City Sound Studios in Glen Cove, New York under the musical direction of Bill Zampino and Joel's longtime band member Richie Cannata. The final recordings took place in Vienna.

Symphonic Fantasies

Pianist Jeffrey Biegel 2003 came to Joel with a request to write a piano concerto for him. As an alternative, Joel offered that Biegel could make a piano concert of the works of " Fantasies & Delusions ", eventually with the implementation of the plays "Fantasy (Film Noir ) ", " Sorbetto ", " Reverie (Villa d' Este ) "and" Nunley 's Carousel Waltz ". While Biegel wrote the piano part, the American Philip Keveren took over the composition of the orchestral passages. The result, entitled " Symphonic Fantasies for Piano and Orchestra" was premiered on June 24, 2006 in Greensboro. Biegel was accompanied by the Eastern Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Stuart Malina.

Title list

Studio albums: Cold Spring Harbor ( 1971) | Piano Man (1973 ) | Streetlife Serenade (1974 ) | Turnstiles (1976 ) | The Stranger (1977 ) | 52nd Street (1978 ) | Glass Houses (1980 ) | The Nylon Curtain ( 1982) | An Innocent Man (1983 ) | The Bridge (1986 ) | Storm Front (1989 ) | River of Dreams (1993 ) | Fantasies & Delusions (2001 ) | Movin ' Out ( 2002) | The Stranger - 30th Anniversary Edition (2008)

Live albums: Songs in the Attic (1981 ) | Концерт (1987 ) | 2000 Years - The Millennium Concert (2000) | 12 Gardens Live (2006)

• Billy Joel album
• Album 2001