Returning to his first love the piano this piece composed in 1970. The three pieces forming the Triptych are a Meditation a Dramatic Recitative and a Capriccio. The Meditation is naturally reflective but not unduly introspective; the drama in the Recitative rests on the contrast between rhetorical statements and bravura passages; the Capriccio is carried on a vivacious rhythmic pulse and ends…