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In 2001, Billy Joel wrote down his solo piano works with the help of Richard Hyung-ki Joo and a few other professionals. The publication of “Fantasies and Delusions” in 2001 marked a change for one of America’s great showmen. The sheet music was issued with a copy of the famous Schirmer edition cover used for Chopin and other classical composers. This was an indication that Joel wanted to be taken seriously. So was the fact that at the beginning of each piece, he used “William Joel” rather than his usual “Billy”. Richard Joo recorded the pieces that year for Sony, and it’s a fine disk.
Chopin or Rachmaninov he’s not. Put on a Joel piece, and you’re delighted at what you hear, but if you put on a Chopin piece afterward, you don’t place Joel at the same level. Don’t worry, though. It’s good music in its own right.
This video is Billy Joel introducing Richard Joo, who first plays “Uptown Girl” as Mozart would have written it and then segues into Joel’s Invention in C minor, written in the style of Bach. Joel and Joo then collaborate on a two-piano version of his Air in C.
Joel: Invention in C minor, Op. 6; Air in C Major (“Dublinesque”), Op. 10