Christopher Schindler Pianist

Charles R. Walter model W190 piano tuned and maintained by Tom Levings RPTP.

For Carnival, Mardi Gras, Fasching, Masopust, Fat Tuesday whichever of these you may or may not be celebrating today.

Live performance at Marylhurst U., Feb. 8, 1985.

Also known as "The Barn Owl Lingers On!"  by Leoš Janáček.  This was used in the film "The Unbearable Lightness of Being".  

On the program of my Old Church concert on Oct. 5. 

Recorded live at Reed College, January 1990.

His most popular piano piece.  He could not leave the concert stage without playing it.  So he ended up calling it simply "it".

I'll be playing this again at my Old Church concert on July 20.

Recently recorded in my studio to publicize my November concerts featuring Rhapsody in Blue in Gershwin's version for solo piano.

Recorded July 2, 2015.  Beethoven's original title (Seven Variations on "God Save the King") has been changed for the Fourth of July holiday.  He wouldn't have known of the use of this tune for "My Country 'Tis of Thee" which was first heard in 1832, five years after his death.

Written in 1810 supposedly for Therese Malfatti (pictured on the left) and not for anyone named Elise.  She was the niece of Beethoven's physician at the time and a close friend to whom he may have proposed marriage.

A favorite Russian composer of mine, Alexander Nicolaevich Scriabin died 100 years ago on April 27 (according to the 6th edition of Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians). 

Bach wrote this in the Notebook for his wife Anna Magdalena in 1722.  Twenty years laters he used it as the basis for a set of variations which he wrote on commission.

We know these as the 'Goldberg Variations'.

An impromptu recording in my studio for Bach in the Subways Day March 21, 2015

, being Bach´s 330th birthday.

A charming piece from a bygone era for Valentine's Day. 

Josef Suk (1874-1935) was a Czech composer and violinist.  He studied with Dvořák at the Prague Conservatory and later became his son-in-law. 

Recorded for Thanksgiving 2014.  In evoking the "Orchard House" of the Bronson Alcott family in Concord, Mass., Charles Ives wrote in 1919: "Within the house, on every side, lie remembrances of what imagination can do for the better amusement of children who have to do for themselves-much needed lessons in these days of automatic, ready-made, easy entertainment which deaden rather than stimulate the creative faculty.  And there sits the little ole spinet-piano Sophia Thoreau gave to the Alcott children, on which Beth played the old Scotch airs, and played at the 'Fifth Symphony'."

A live performance at Marylhurst University in 1992.

The second of two threnodies from Book 3 of Années de Pèlerinage (Years of Pilgrimage): Italy.