Anna Gourari: Canto Oscuro

Muzyka Współczesna/Współczesna Kameralistyka
premiera polska: 2012-10-09
opakowanie: plastikowe etui
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Editor's Info:
Anna Gourari is a young musician steeped in the venerable Russian piano school, its technical verities and Old World glamour. She has “a very physical, even visceral quality to her music-making that conjures the sound of such golden-age figures as Horowitz and Cortot,” declared Fanfare. With her ECM debut, Gourari offers a set of “Canto Oscuro”: dark songs. The pianist performs two of the most affecting of J.S. Bach’s chorale preludes – “Ich ruf’ zu Dir, Herr Jesu Christ” and “Nun komm’ der Heiden Heiland” – in arrangements of quiet sublimity by Ferruccio Busoni. Gourari also includes his iconic version of the gripping “Chaconne” from Bach’s Partita No. 2 for solo violin. From her native Russia, she adds Alexander Siloti’s Bach- transcription “Prélude in B minor”, as well as Sofia Gubaidulina’s early “Chaconne”, a vessel for ghosts of the Baroque. The album’s centrepiece is Hindemith’s Suite “1922”, a work influenced by both Baroque models and the Jazz Age, yet its “Shimmy”, “Boston” and “Ragtime” movements are given a dissonant, darkly ironic cast, and the Suite’s “Nachtstück” is night music as haunted and haunting, a very much “dark song”.

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Anna Gourari: piano

utwory:
1. Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 639 - Transcribed for piano by Ferruccio Busoni - Ich ruf zu Dir, Herr Jesu Christ 3:39
2. Chaconne 11:45
3. "1922" Suite for Piano, Op.26 - Marsch 1:46
4. "1922" Suite for Piano, Op.26 - Shimmy 3:42
5. "1922" Suite for Piano, Op.26 - Nachtstück 5:17
6. "1922" Suite for Piano, Op.26 - Boston 5:15
7. "1922" Suite for Piano, Op.26 - Ragtime 2:17
8. Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659 - Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659 - Nun komm' der Heiden Heiland 5:31
9. Partita for Violin Solo No.2 in D minor, BWV 1004 - Transcribed for piano by Ferruccio Busoni - Chaconne 16:20
10. Prelude and Fugue in E minor (WTK, Book I, No.10), BWV 855 - arr. by Alexander Siloti - Prelude in B minor 3:40

nagrano: Recorded May 2011
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