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2024-02-08 07:49:00
Diagrams & sonatas: discs of solo piano music Arvo Pärt and Ivor Gurney, neither composer well-known for writing in the genre
[…] (Diagrams) from 1964, the style has become much more modernist; striking, yet we would hesitate to identify the composer. Mommy's Kiss (1968) reverts to a more tender, lyrical style, almost sentimental, whilst Ukaru Waltz seems to have fun with a closed form, the way Shostakovich did.With Für Alina from 1976, we reach the watershed and move into the tinntinabuli style. Here we have Pärt mining the piano's sonic abilities to completely magical effect. Originally dating from the same year, Pari intervallo was premiered in October 1976 at the first concert of tinntinabuli works, performed by the ensemble Hortus Musicus on early instruments. It is heard here in a later version for two pianists (from 2008) where Liiv is joined by Marrit Gerretz-Traksman. More concentrated, more romantic even, the sound world is perhaps influenced by the original instrumentation.We revert to single pianist for Variations for the Healing of Arinushka (from 1977) was composed for the composer's daughter after […]
2023-07-19 07:35:00
There is no perfect
'The Himalayas taught me there is no perfect - there's only balance with pain and bliss, sea-level and summits, hate and love, samsara [wandering in different states of cyclic existence] and nirvana. The path is our individual responsibility, and it isn't always pretty' - Jane Marshall Back Over the Mountains Recent listening and reading: Stephan Thelen, World Dialogue - Kronos & Al Pari QuartetsGandhi, A Memoir - William L ShirerTibetan Plateau & Sounds of the Mothership - David ParsonsRetreat - Nat SegnitBach Transcriptions, Samuel Feinberg - Martin Roscoe
2021-08-19 04:04:00
Recent Releases, No. 16 (CD Reviews)
By Karl W. NehringLabyrinth: Khatia Buniatushvili, piano. Morricone: “Deborah's Theme” from Once Upon a Time in America; Satie: Gymnopédie No. 1; Chopin: Prélude in E minor Op. 28/4; Ligeti: Arc-En-Ciel, No. 5 from Études pour piano - Book I; Bach: Badinerie – from Orchestral Suite (Overture) No. 2 in B Minor, BWV 1067 arr. for piano four hands (with Gvantsa Buniatushvili); Bach: Air on the G String - from Orchestral Suite (Overture) No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068; Rachmaninov: Vocalise, Op. 34/14; Serge Gainsbourg: La Javanaise; Villa-Lobos: Valsa da dor; Couperin: Les Barricades Mystérieuses, from Pièces de clavecin - Book II; Bach (after Vivaldi): Sicilienne from Organ Concerto in D minor, BWV 596; Brahms: Intermezzo in A major Op. 118/2; Pärt: Pari Intervallo for piano four hands (w/Gvanstsa Buniatushvili); Glass: I'm Going to Make a Cake from The Hours; Scarlatti: Sonata in D minor, K. 32; Liszt: Consolation (Pensée poétique) in D-flat major S 172/3; Cage: 4'33"; Bach: […]
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