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BAND/ARTIST: Lysander Piano Trio, Sarah Shafer
- Title: Mirrors: 21st Century American Piano Trios
- Year Of Release: 2020
- Label: First Hand Records
- Genre: Classical
- Quality: flac lossless / flac 24bits - 96.0kHz +Booklet
- Total Time: 01:11:26
- Total Size: 343 mb / 1.19 gb
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Tracklist
01. Around the Cauldron: I. in Dusk
02. Around the Cauldron: II. Pounce
03. Around the Cauldron: III. Transmutation
04. Around the Cauldron: IV. Boiling
05. Around the Cauldron: V. Witches Waltz
06. Around the Cauldron: VI. Newts' Lament
07. Around the Cauldron: VII. Sacrifical
08. Ghostwritten Variations: Var. 1, Doctor Fautus
09. Ghostwritten Variations: Var. 2, Cloud Atlas
10. Ghostwritten Variations: Var. 3, Orfeo
11. Ghostwritten Variations: Var. 4, The Memory of Whiteness
12. Love Sweet: I. Apology
13. Love Sweet: II. The Giver of Stars
14. Love Sweet: III. Absence
15. Love Sweet: IV. A Gift
16. Love Sweet: V. A Fixed Idea
17. Titania and Her Suite
18. An den Wassern zu Babel
19. The Black Mirror
Celebrating their 10th anniversary in 2020, Lysander Piano Trio present their FHR début album 'mirrors' album featuring première recordings of new American piano trios commissioned or premièred by the ensemble.
The works included on this album, with their richness of styles and origins, provide an exciting and optimistic glimpse into music being written for piano trio today. Of particular note is 'Love Sweet' written by Grammy Award winning composer Jennifer Higdon and featuring the brilliant soprano Sarah Shafer.
“An enterprising and finely realized collection of recent works for piano trio (all of them first recordings) Lysander Piano Trio, an ensemble now well established on the American recital circuit, which here gets to display its versatility and conviction in abundant measure.” (Arcana)
“Great groundbreaking stuff.” (Midwest Record)
What’s the music like? As varied as the composers featured. Senior among them, Jennifer Higdon (b1962) contributes in Love Sweet a song-cycle very different from the extrovert orchestral works for which she is best known; the unusual yet effective combination of soprano and piano trio affording a deft characterization of these five poems by early twentieth century author Amy Lowell that trace the fateful unfolding of a relationship with ruminative poignancy. Following directly, Titania and Her Suite by Sofia Belimova (b2000) is a disarmingly assured miniature by a composer then in her early teens – its animated and unpredictable take on the figure from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream having a maturity and assurance as to put into the shade efforts by other more recent prodigies. Where its composer goes from here should prove fascinating.
Either side of these works, Ghostwritten Variations by Reinaldo Moya (b1984) draws on four seminal novels of the post-war era in four variations on a theme whose understated eloquence is ideally suited to the respectively searching, agitated, insouciant and disembodied treatments which follow – so making for an trajectory enhanced by this theme’s audible presence at each stage. As its title suggests, An den Wassern zu Babel by William David Cooper (b1986) draws on Psalm 37 not only as text but also the melody found in a setting contemporaneous with the German translation by Martin Luther; from which emerges a continuous set of six variations whose contrasts are permeated (never slavishly) by the spirit of German expressionism from the early twentieth century, and in what becomes a ‘mirror’ as revealing as it is disconcerting.
With its influences ranging from prog rock to klezmer, Around the Cauldron by Gilad Cohen (b1980) opens the programme with a vividly evocative sequence inspired by the three witches (also known as the weird sisters) from Shakespeare’s Macbeth; these seven tightly contrasted vignettes taking in a Witches Waltz of glinting irony then culminating in Sacrificial which is hardly less chilling than the Third Ear Band’s score for Roman Polanski’s (in)famous film rendering. Concluding this collection, The Black Mirror by Jakub Ciupinski (b1981) takes up procedures associated with Baroque painter Claude Lorrain – the piece slowly emerging from tentative piano phrases and string harmonics to a climax whose etherealized intensity could not be better described than by the composer’s description of ‘‘an explosion in slow motion’’.
01. Around the Cauldron: I. in Dusk
02. Around the Cauldron: II. Pounce
03. Around the Cauldron: III. Transmutation
04. Around the Cauldron: IV. Boiling
05. Around the Cauldron: V. Witches Waltz
06. Around the Cauldron: VI. Newts' Lament
07. Around the Cauldron: VII. Sacrifical
08. Ghostwritten Variations: Var. 1, Doctor Fautus
09. Ghostwritten Variations: Var. 2, Cloud Atlas
10. Ghostwritten Variations: Var. 3, Orfeo
11. Ghostwritten Variations: Var. 4, The Memory of Whiteness
12. Love Sweet: I. Apology
13. Love Sweet: II. The Giver of Stars
14. Love Sweet: III. Absence
15. Love Sweet: IV. A Gift
16. Love Sweet: V. A Fixed Idea
17. Titania and Her Suite
18. An den Wassern zu Babel
19. The Black Mirror
Celebrating their 10th anniversary in 2020, Lysander Piano Trio present their FHR début album 'mirrors' album featuring première recordings of new American piano trios commissioned or premièred by the ensemble.
The works included on this album, with their richness of styles and origins, provide an exciting and optimistic glimpse into music being written for piano trio today. Of particular note is 'Love Sweet' written by Grammy Award winning composer Jennifer Higdon and featuring the brilliant soprano Sarah Shafer.
“An enterprising and finely realized collection of recent works for piano trio (all of them first recordings) Lysander Piano Trio, an ensemble now well established on the American recital circuit, which here gets to display its versatility and conviction in abundant measure.” (Arcana)
“Great groundbreaking stuff.” (Midwest Record)
What’s the music like? As varied as the composers featured. Senior among them, Jennifer Higdon (b1962) contributes in Love Sweet a song-cycle very different from the extrovert orchestral works for which she is best known; the unusual yet effective combination of soprano and piano trio affording a deft characterization of these five poems by early twentieth century author Amy Lowell that trace the fateful unfolding of a relationship with ruminative poignancy. Following directly, Titania and Her Suite by Sofia Belimova (b2000) is a disarmingly assured miniature by a composer then in her early teens – its animated and unpredictable take on the figure from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream having a maturity and assurance as to put into the shade efforts by other more recent prodigies. Where its composer goes from here should prove fascinating.
Either side of these works, Ghostwritten Variations by Reinaldo Moya (b1984) draws on four seminal novels of the post-war era in four variations on a theme whose understated eloquence is ideally suited to the respectively searching, agitated, insouciant and disembodied treatments which follow – so making for an trajectory enhanced by this theme’s audible presence at each stage. As its title suggests, An den Wassern zu Babel by William David Cooper (b1986) draws on Psalm 37 not only as text but also the melody found in a setting contemporaneous with the German translation by Martin Luther; from which emerges a continuous set of six variations whose contrasts are permeated (never slavishly) by the spirit of German expressionism from the early twentieth century, and in what becomes a ‘mirror’ as revealing as it is disconcerting.
With its influences ranging from prog rock to klezmer, Around the Cauldron by Gilad Cohen (b1980) opens the programme with a vividly evocative sequence inspired by the three witches (also known as the weird sisters) from Shakespeare’s Macbeth; these seven tightly contrasted vignettes taking in a Witches Waltz of glinting irony then culminating in Sacrificial which is hardly less chilling than the Third Ear Band’s score for Roman Polanski’s (in)famous film rendering. Concluding this collection, The Black Mirror by Jakub Ciupinski (b1981) takes up procedures associated with Baroque painter Claude Lorrain – the piece slowly emerging from tentative piano phrases and string harmonics to a climax whose etherealized intensity could not be better described than by the composer’s description of ‘‘an explosion in slow motion’’.
Year 2020 | Classical | FLAC / APE | HD & Vinyl
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