Katalógové číslo:
ECM 2612
Autori:
Alessandro Marcello, Alfred Schnittke, Antonio Vivaldi, Arvo Pärt, Giya Kancheli, Johann Sebastian Bach, Rodion Shchedrin, Wolfgang Rihm
Vydavateľ:
ECM, ECM New Series
Featured artists:
Anna Gourari - Piano
Tracklist:
1
Largo BWV 975
(Antonio Vivaldi, Johann Sebastian Bach)
03:46
Alfred Schnittke - Five Aphorisms
2
Moderato assai
03:51
3
Allegretto
02:15
4
Lento
02:14
5
Senza tempo
02:33
6
Grave
03:03
7
Piano piece No. 15
(Giya Kancheli)
01:31
Rodion Shchedrin - Diary – Seven pieces
8
Sostenuto assai
00:50
9
L'istesso tempo
02:12
10
Allegretto moderato (in ritmo)
02:12
11
Allegro, ma non troppo
00:46
12
Lento, sempre poco rubato
03:37
13
Presto leggiero
01:07
14
Sostenuto alla campana
04:46
15
Variationen zur Gesundung von Arinuschka
(Arvo Pärt)
05:36
Wolfgang Rihm - Zwiesprache
16
Alfred Schlee in memoriam
03:03
17
Paul Sacher in memoriam
04:03
18
Heinrich Klotz in memoriam
03:44
19
Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht in memoriam
03:38
20
Hermann Wiesler in memoriam
02:19
21
Piano piece No. 23
(Giya Kancheli)
01:23
22
Adagio BWV 974
(Alessandro Marcello, Johann Sebastian Bach)
03:52
In this imaginatively shaped and sensitively played album – her third for ECM - Russian pianist Anna Gourari explores musical connections and influences extending across the arts. Three suites of contemporary music are heard here. Alfred Schnittke’s Five Aphorisms (1990) draw impulses from the poetry of his friend Joseph Brodsky. Rodion Shchedrin’s Diary - Seven Pieces (2002) dedicated to Gourari and inspired by her playing, reflects the life of a pianist and composer. Wolfgang Rihm’s sequence of tombeaux, Zwiesprache (1999) pays tribute to musicologists Alfred Schlee and Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht, conductor Paul Sacher, and art sociologist Hermann Wiesler. Threaded between the cycles are two Giya Kancheli miniatures drawn from theatre and movie music, as well as Arvo Pärt’s early tintinnabuli-style Variations for the Healing of Arinuschka (1977). Gourari’s investigation of artistic affinities is framed with Bach’s transcriptions of Venetian composers Antonio Vivaldi and Alessandro Marcello: “Anna Gourari makes these Bach slow movements, too, ours,” Paul Griffiths writes in the liner notes. “And the newer music is cherished and invigorated.”