Peyee Chen, Ensemble Proton Bern & Luigi Gaggero – Samuel Andreyev: In Glow of Like Seclusion (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:25 minutes | 1,31 GB | Genre: Classical
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Samuel Andreyev’s music is incredibly varied, from the sparse resonance of the Sonata da Camera, the ‘cartoon music’ – as the composer puts it -of Vérifications, characterised by primary colours and strong instrumental timbres; the Sextet in Two Parts which in contrast focuses on minute timbral shadings; and of course the cantata for solo voice and ensemble which is the title track of the album.
Performed by ensemble proton bern, conducted by Luigi Gaggero with the magical soprano voice of Peyee Chen on In Glow of Like Seclusion (set to verse by J. H. Prynne), this album was beautifully captured in Zurich in 2022.
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Viktoriia Vitrenko, David Grimal, Luigi Gaggero & Niek de Groot – György Kurtág: Scenes (Scenes from a Novel, Op. 19, Eight Duos for Violin and Cimbalom, Op. 4, Seven Songs, Op. 22, In memory of a Winter evening, Op. 8, Several Movements from Georg Christoph Lichtenberg’s Sudelbücher ‘Scrapbooks’, Op. 37a & Hommage à Be (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:22 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Classical
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In the history of music, György Kurtág is a figure apart. Born in Hungary in 1926, he stood aside from the great ideological movements of his time and created his own personal language in solitude, thinking of music as he put it, “as an ongoing search”. But while doggedly independent, he was also a man of culture whose language developed in the shadow of two great teachers: Bartók and Beethoven, the former following on largely from the latter. A champion of the small form, Kurtág also drew inspiration (when he wasn’t revisiting them explicitly) from Bach, Schubert and Schumann.
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