We’re proud to bring you „Island Nation“ - Francesco Tristano’s first composition for orchestra and piano, recorded at the Gewandhaus Leipzig in collaboration with the MDR Symphonic Orchestra and its conductor Kristjan Järvi. Drawing inspiration from a recent trip to an unnamed island nation, this „free piano concerto“ is free inasmuch as the piano part is only written down in part and leaves considerable space open for improvisation. The piano takes on the identity of a free island nation surrounded by the ocean – the orchestra – which in turn provides the laws, harmonic and rhythmic, that rule the structure and evolution of the three movements. This is Francesco Tristano’s first composition for large orchestra since 1997.