Lux Internum: 12 Nocturnes for Solo Piano

On the more meditative & solitary spectrum of his concert music, Al Kryszak's "Lux Internum" is a 12 movement nocturne collection for solo piano. The 2020 premiere recording, released by FilmTrax/The Orchard, features Ukrainian virtuoso Svetlana Belsky in a deeply introspective recording of the complete collection.

Reviews of the premiere recording of Lux Internum on AppleMusic:

"Dr. Belsky explains: "I was immediately attracted to the complexity of Alan Kryszak's music: harmonic, textural and rhythmic. His inner light is irresistibly multi-faceted and often ambiguous, and profoundly human." That depth of understanding runs throughout the music, which comes to life via Dr. Belsky's very expressive and expansive performance."

- Kathy Parsons: Mainly Piano

"Svetlana Belsky's playing is always fresh and illuminating; and this is repertoire that is fully deserving of dissemination.

Belsky is ever sensitive to shifts [of mood], pinpointing the muted drama in the harmonies of the fourth and commendably unhurried in the tolling bell of the sixth (reminiscent, to me at least of Debussy's "Cathédrale engloutie"). "

- Colin Clarke: Fanfare Magazine

Concert Music:

"His classical pieces are beautifully wrought, and include a lovely set of works for clarinet and orchestra (which he released as All The Luck, in 2008), several sets of piano works, and Having an Atonal Christmas, for string quartet and harp, as well as soundtrack music for silent films, including an inventive flute and guitar score for The Hunchback of Notre Dame and a piano concerto that doubled as a score for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde¸ and that the pianist Anthony DeMare has recorded."

- Allan Kozinn: San Francisco Classical Voice

Al Kryszak is a composer, filmmaker, pianist & guitarist based in Maine. Work includes Turner Classic Movies, The Film Society of Lincoln Center, The New England Film Orchestra, The American Festival of Microtonal Music, Mabou Mines, June-in-Buffalo, Symphony Space, LA Directors Guild, & KINO. He is on the Creative Arts Faculty at the University of Maine at Machias. Kryszak studied at SUNY Buffalo with Lukas Foss, Morton Feldman, Louis Andriessen & Lou Harrison.