Nocturne: Piano Music of Chopin
Harrison Gradwell Slater, piano
Nocturne
[Lento] in C Sharp Minor
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NOCTURNE
For the 200th Anniversary of the Birth of Chopin
Amid the lush tonal landscapes of Chopin, a killer stalks unseen in Harrison Slater’s
page-turning new novel, Nocturne
(Peabody Mason, $24.95, January 2010)
Just
when her life in New York
seems to be unraveling, Artemisia Talbot receives a commission to photograph Chopin’s Paris. And in the City of Light, she discovers unconditional love for the first time
with a young American musicologist, Matthew Pierce. Artemisia accompanies
Matthew to Warsaw, where he purchases a diary that describes Chopin’s ill-fated love affair with “little Marynia,”
a talented pianist and watercolorist. But the diary also holds some disturbing parallels to contemporary events and
the brilliance of Artemisia’s surroundings—in Paris, Warsaw, and Nohant—obscures the grim reality that she is being followed
by an obsessive killer bent on revenge.
Internationally
known author, scholar and pianist Harrison Slater continues on the path of his acclaimed best-selling novel, Night Music, which was optioned as a film in
Europe. Just as Night Music opened the world of Mozart to
mystery readers, Nocturne brings the poetic panoramas of Chopin to those who love novels of suspense and obsession.
Voted “Rising Star of 2003” by sales representatives of nine publishing houses, Night Music was on the Barnes and Noble
bestseller list for mystery paperbacks for fourteen weeks. For Nocturne, a CD of Chopin’s piano music has been integrated
into the text … the first example of a novel with a soundtrack, performed by the author.
Nocturne
combines culture and passion in a gripping narrative of love, fatal attraction and, ultimately, redemption.
About the Author: A
Ph.D. in musicology, Harrison Gradwell Slater is the photographer of "Mozart's Prague" and "Monet's
Giverny," and author of five books including Night Music, In Mozart’s Footsteps and The Embrace: Part One. In addition to writing and recording, Slater coaches many
world-class pianists, thanks to his musical association with Paul Doguereau, whose experience links him to the greatest pianists
of the twentieth century. Slater is also President and Artistic Director of an international Chopin piano competition. Nocturne is Slater’s second novel and is
available on Kindle.
