Wydawnictwo: Avi Music
Nr katalogowy: AVI 8553084
Nośnik: 1 CD
Data wydania: wrzesień 2021
EAN: 4260085530847
Nr katalogowy: AVI 8553084
Nośnik: 1 CD
Data wydania: wrzesień 2021
EAN: 4260085530847
Janacek: Piano Works
Avi Music - AVI 8553084
Kompozytor
Leos Janacek (1854-1928)
Leos Janacek (1854-1928)
Wykonawcy
Olena Kushpler, piano
Olena Kushpler, piano
Utwory na płycie:
- On an overgrown Path - 6. Words fail!
- On an overgrown Path - 7. Good night!
- On an overgrown Path - 8. Unutterable anguish
- On an overgrown Path - 9. In tears
- On an overgrown Path - The barn owl has not flown away!
- Intimate Sketches - 1. Malostransky Palace
- Intimate Sketches - 2. Untitled
- Intimate Sketches - 3. Melody
- Intimate Sketches - 4. Moderato
- Intimate Sketches - 5. Just blind fate?
- In The Mists - I. Andante
- Intimate Sketches - 6. So you can never return
- Intimate Sketches - 7. Der goldene Ring
- Intimate Sketches - 8. Waiting for you!
- Intimate Sketches - 9. Rondo
- Intimate Sketches - 10. In memoriam
- Intimate Sketches - 11. My Olga
- Intimate Sketches - 12. Wiegenlied
- A Recollection
- Miniatures - 13. Lord Jesus Christ is Born
- In The Mists - II. Molto adagio
- In The Mists - III. Andantino
- In The Mists - IV. Presto – meno mosso
- On an overgrown Path - 1. Our evenings
- On an overgrown Path - 2. A blown-away leaf
- On an overgrown Path - 3. Come with us!
- On an overgrown Path - 4. The Frýdek Madonna
- On an overgrown Path - 5. They chattered like swallows
V mlách (In The Mists)
Po zarostlém (On an overgrown Path) - Series I
Intimate Sketches
Vzpomínka (A Recollection)
Po zarostlém (On an overgrown Path) - Series I
Intimate Sketches
Vzpomínka (A Recollection)
Ever since my youth I have been fascinated by the music of Leoš Janá?ek: initially by his vocal works, particularly Jenufa, an opera with an unadulterated ‘peasant’ tone of such radical authenticity that it transforms itself into avant-garde music. I only discovered Janácek’s piano repertoire at a later date, and immediately grasped his basic aesthetic principle: he wanted to write a music of truth. Virtuosity for virtuosity’s sake had no place in his approach.
Understood that the Bohemian master staked out a clear position in the great musical debate of the 1800s. It raged, on the one hand, between formal aesthetics, which viewed music as “sonically moving forms” (in the words of Vienna critic doyen Eduard Hanslick), and, on the other hand, the musical content aesthetics of Berlioz, Schumann, Wagner, and Bruckner, who devoted their efforts to transforming poetry and even philosophy into music. In Janácek, I also feel that he strives to imbue each phrase with profound expression, thereby creating music that reflects his feelings, hopes, and disappointments.
Janácek’s music draws its energy from contrasts, which can be violent at times: each piece contains moments of brilliant luminosity as well as dramatic conflict. I view his piano cycle On An Overgrown Path as a clearly autobiographical work that reflects the experiences and moods he encountered in real life. The death of his daughter Olga led to profound despair, and the titles of individual pieces reflect how a father’s thoughts revolved around the memories of his lost child. Our Evenings, A Blown-Away Leaf, and Words Fail are all individual pieces that foreshadow the tragedy to come. The cycle culminates in The Barn Owl Has Not Flown Away!, and we can note that folk belief viewed the barn owl as an ominous messenger of death.
I read Janácek’s piano minisatures as intimate sketches from a diary he was keeping: personal thoughts turn into musical ideas. He wrote the Rondo when he was a young student, and The Golden Ring was his last composition, dated 8 August 1928, four days before his passing. These “diary entries” thus encompass Janácek’s entire life, and for me they are treasures of inestimable value. (Olena Kushpler).
Recording: III 2020, Jesus-Christus-Kirche Berlin-Dahlem, Germany
Understood that the Bohemian master staked out a clear position in the great musical debate of the 1800s. It raged, on the one hand, between formal aesthetics, which viewed music as “sonically moving forms” (in the words of Vienna critic doyen Eduard Hanslick), and, on the other hand, the musical content aesthetics of Berlioz, Schumann, Wagner, and Bruckner, who devoted their efforts to transforming poetry and even philosophy into music. In Janácek, I also feel that he strives to imbue each phrase with profound expression, thereby creating music that reflects his feelings, hopes, and disappointments.
Janácek’s music draws its energy from contrasts, which can be violent at times: each piece contains moments of brilliant luminosity as well as dramatic conflict. I view his piano cycle On An Overgrown Path as a clearly autobiographical work that reflects the experiences and moods he encountered in real life. The death of his daughter Olga led to profound despair, and the titles of individual pieces reflect how a father’s thoughts revolved around the memories of his lost child. Our Evenings, A Blown-Away Leaf, and Words Fail are all individual pieces that foreshadow the tragedy to come. The cycle culminates in The Barn Owl Has Not Flown Away!, and we can note that folk belief viewed the barn owl as an ominous messenger of death.
I read Janácek’s piano minisatures as intimate sketches from a diary he was keeping: personal thoughts turn into musical ideas. He wrote the Rondo when he was a young student, and The Golden Ring was his last composition, dated 8 August 1928, four days before his passing. These “diary entries” thus encompass Janácek’s entire life, and for me they are treasures of inestimable value. (Olena Kushpler).
Recording: III 2020, Jesus-Christus-Kirche Berlin-Dahlem, Germany