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Diagrams & sonatas: discs of solo piano music Arvo Pärt and Ivor Gurney, neither composer well-known for writing in the genre
Ivor Gurney: Piano Sonatas 1 & 3, Adagio from Piano Sonata 2, Five Preludes; George Rowley; NaxosArvo Pärt: Diagrams, complete music for piano; Tähe-Lee Liiv; ERPReviewed 29 January 2024Two contrasting discs of piano music by 20th century composers who are not known for their work in the genre, highlighting our partiality when it comes to looking at repertoireIt is fascinating how fixated on a particular genre we can be with some composers. Sometimes this has to do with availability, until some brave editor makes the music available in a viable edition then with the best will in the world, the composer's recorded output might be a bit partial. But also, it seems that we do rather like pigeon-holing. Two discs from last year rather emphasised this, and both proved admirable showcases for a pair of talented young pianists. British pianist George Rowley recorded of Ivor Gurney's three Piano Sonatas and Five Preludes for Naxos, and Estonian […]
2018-10-30 09:03:19
Die Walküre - Royal Opera House Live
[…] Opera production of the first day of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, Die Walküre. In this revival the ill-fated twins Siegmund and Sieglinde were sung by Stuart Skelton and Emily Magee. Sieglinde’s Neiding husband, Hunding, was Ain Anger. Mr. and Mrs. God, Wotan and Fricka, were John Lundgren and Sarah Connolly. Brünnhilde, Wotan’s favourite daughter, was Nina Stemme. Her sister Valkyries were Alwyn Mellor, Lise Davidsen, Kai Rüütel, Claudia Huckle, Maida Hundeling, Catherine Carby, Monika-Evelin Liiv and Emma Carrington; and I haven’t heard them better sung. Antonio Pappano conducted. I am not so down on Keith Warner’s production as some have been. OK, its imagery is at times frustratingly opaque and its symbolic complexity cluttered, naff even; but, the conflicts of love and power are played out with utter conviction. It is, dare I say, Ibsenesque in approach, the dissection of the characters’ relationships line by line was as […]
2018-03-28 05:39:00
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra and Male Choir – Leif Segerstam, conductor. March 25, 2018.
Hong Kong City Hall Concert Hall. Rear Stalls (Seat V30, HK$320.) Program Nocturno from the cycle Nox Vitae by Grigorjeva (1962-). Kullervo, Op 7 by Sibelius (1865-1957). Artists Monika-Evelin Liiv, mezzo-soprano; Rauno Elp, baritone; Mikk Uleoja, chief conductor, Male Choir. As part of the 47th Hong Kong Arts Festival, the orchestra and choir performed in two programs. The first one consisted of more traditional pieces such as The Sailors’ Chorus from Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman and The Soldiers’ Chorus from Gounod’s Faust. (There were modern pieces by Arvo Part, for instance.) I had a dinner commitment, and the performance was nearly sold out anyway. Tonight’s program consisted of two works I had never heard before. Galina Grigorjeva was born in Ukraine and Nocturno is the first part of her Nox Vitae (Night of the Life), a five-part choir cycle based […]
2015-05-15 14:33:00
[…] consciously seek to live with awareness of that, or whether we live in denial, it shapes us. As Part’s notes on this piece reflect : I have written a lamento – not for the dead, but for the living, who have to deal with these issues for themselves. A lamento for us, struggling with the pain and hopelessness of the world. Here is the whole of Lamentate, in a version with Diana Liiv, piano. Lexington Symphony, conductor Jonathan McPhee. Sound quality not wonderful though From the crushing, weighty opening two movements, where it almost feels as if an implacable indifferent force will roll over the listeners, annihilating them, in the third movement small, fragile, simple, beautiful and hesitant pause filled lines of melody arise, carried by the solo piano. Later, these lines, are taken up, turn by turn, by other instruments. It’s almost like an offer and […]
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