![]() The Christmas album enjoyed immediate success, charting in iTunes Holiday Charts Top 50, Top 100, and on Billboard Magazine’s “New Age” chart. In December of 2018, Fred released his first Christmas album, “Silent Night”. He felt strongly that this next season of his life would be focused on his gifts as a pianist and composer. This was a compilation of some of his favorite interludes that were released on the podcast over the previous year.Īfter serving as a Worship Leader and Music Director in the local church for more than 24 years, Fred’s season as a staff church musician ended in the Fall of 2018. In 2017, Fred released his forth album, “Worship Interludes Volume 1” which was his second official solo piano album. This podcast is currently being downloaded over 1,000 times per day by listeners across more than 260 countries in the world. Then in February of 2017, Fred began to record and release his own improvisational interludes that came out of his morning devotions as the “ Worship Interludes” podcast. He did record his first (and only, thus far) live praise and worship album in 2005, “ Worship Under the Stars” – a dynamic praise and worship album recorded on Jekyll Island, Georgia.Īlthough he was making music daily in his role as a church musician, the recording stopped. This is still one of Fred’s best selling and streaming albums of all time.Īfter releasing “Be Glorified” in 1998, Fred’s life got very busy working in churches and running several internet-based businesses. This album features cover arrangements of some of the classic praise and worship songs such as “As The Deer”, “Holy and Anointed One”, “I Am The God That Healeth Thee”, and others. In the Fall of 1998, Fred released his first solo piano album, “ Be Glorified“. These two albums were designed to provide continuous play instrumental music for prayer, quiet time, and devotion. The following year, “QuietTimes” Volume 2 was released which featured Fred McKinnon on keyboards and his friend, Deutsch (Dutch) Heidler on saxophone. His first album, “ QuietTimes Keyboard Instrumental” was recorded in his college apartment with a single keyboard and sold thousands of copies. Fred’s Journey:įred McKinnon has been creating instrumental music for years. The program offers both a free stream that is supported by advertising and a premium stream with no advertising and customizable features for the listener. Now, after fifteen years “on the air,” Whisperings: Solo Piano Radio is home to over 340 talented piano artists and broadcasts to tens of thousands of piano music fans from all over the world every day. Before long, Nevue stopped looking because CD submissions for his Whisperings radio broadcast were pouring in from all over the world. He then sought out other like-minded pianists on sites like CD Baby. In the beginning, he invited a few of his pianist friends to join him on the broadcast. Samples are also available on many of the participating artists’ websites.Nevue launched Whisperings: Solo Piano Radio on August 1st, 2003 as a vehicle for promoting his own particular flavor of piano music. ![]() Whisperings Solo Piano Volume 1 is available from, Amazon, and iTunes. "Angel of Bliss" by Christopher Boscoleġ6."Prayer for the Planet" by Greg Maroney "A Sunset's Promise" by Christine Brownġ2. I give it my very highest recommendation!ĩ. Instead, I’ll list the artists and their pieces with the assurance that this is one extremely high quality piano album and a must for all lovers of contemporary solo piano. Because of that, I don’t really want to pull out a few examples. There are no “big” or splashy pieces on this album, but there is a wonderful variety of moods and emotional expressions - from “Angel of Bliss” to “Lament,” from “Awaken the Dawn” to “A Sunset’s Promise.” All of the pieces are of such a high quality that none overshadows the rest - it’s an amazing and seamless musical journey from the first note to the last. ![]() All of the tracks were recorded at Joe Bongiorno’s Piano Haven Recording Studio near Seattle, WA, on Joe’s impeccable Kawai RX-7 acoustic grand, giving a warm, consistent sound throughout the album despite the variety of artists and pianistic touches. Well folks, I may have already found my favorite CD of the year! Whisperings Solo Piano Volume 1, a compilation of sixteen original piano solos by sixteen Whisperings Artists, is nothing short of stellar! The brainchild of pianist/composer David Nevue, Whisperings has become the #1 solo piano internet radio station, and has grown from a small handful of artists to more than two hundred pianists from all over the world. ![]()
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