Sergio Tiempo & others
Edition Klavier - Festival Ruhr Vol. 36, „The Americas“ and a new Melodram
- Type CD
- Label CAvi
- UPC 4260085534593
- Catalog number AVI 8553459
- Release date 09 February 2018
About the album
On the occasion of Philip Glass’s 80th birthday, and in view of the current global situation, I felt inspired and urged to remind music lovers of the cultural richness and variety of the New World, and to recall that its artists strongly defend humanistic values. With that motivation, the Ruhr Piano Festival 2017 was held under the global motto of “The Americas”, focusing on the music of the entire double continent. That focus is likewise reflected in our annual boxed set of three CDs.
On the first CD you will find examples of the spirited, colourful music of several South American countries. You have certainly already heard works by composers such as the Brazilian Heitor Villa-Lobos or the Argentinians Astor Piazzolla and Alberto Ginastera. But the enchanting works of artists such as Moisés Moleiro, Cláudio Santoro or Carlos López Buchardo, just to name a few, were a wonderful discovery for me as well. I therefore thank the pianists Sergio Tiempo, Anna Zassimova and Zhang Zuo, not only for having offered us thrilling interpretations of these pieces, but for having undertaken the considerable task of unearthing these almost unknown works, and having taken the time to learn them to perfection. The second CD takes us to North America: to the US. The music of Edward MacDowell, a New York native, exudes a thoroughly European, Late Romantic flair. His Sonata No. 2 grips the listener with a great variety of ideas and overflowing virtuosity: Joseph Moog plays it with admirable ease. With Samuel Barber’s Hesitation Tango and George Gershwin’s Three Preludes, we enter the world of American dance music and early 20th-century jazz, both of which exerted a strong influence on ‘learned’ music of the day, not only in the US. These pieces have found a congenial interpreter in Bulgarian pianist Plamena Mangova.
The second CD closes with rarities for two pianos. Maki Namekawa and Dennis Russell Davies – recipients of the Ruhr Piano Festival Prize 2017 along with Philip Glass – perform Henry Cowell’s Celtic Set, William Bolcom’s Sonata for Two Pianos, and the splendid Hallelujah Junction by John Adams, who has celebrated his 70th birthday this year.
The melodrama – a musical genre that associates instrumental music with spoken text – flourished during a relatively brief period in the late 1800s and early 1900s. A commission from the Ruhr Piano Festival has brought this genre back to life: renowned author Michael Krüger has written thirteen short texts on the subject of Missed Opportunities, expressively set to music by Manfred Trojahn and congenially interpreted by pianist Hanni Liang. In this performance, the texts are recited by the composer himself; at the beginning of the CD, you can hear an extra audio version in which the author reads the texts without the music. This world première on CD No. 3 concludes our musical retrospective of the Ruhr Piano Festival 2017. As every year, I extend my heartfelt thanks to all participating artists, as also to our faithful benefactor who finances this project, Ms Helene Mahnert-Lueg. I wish you several hours of listening pleasure!
Prof. Franz Xaver Ohnesorg, Director of the Ruhr Piano Festival
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11Tres Danzas Argentinas op. 2 Danza del viejo boyero
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12Tres Danzas Argentinas op. 2 Danza de la moza donosa
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13Tres Danzas Argentinas op. 2 Danza del gaucho matrero
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14Joropo
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15Fuga y Misterio
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16A prole do bebê Branquinha
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17A prole do bebê Moreninha
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18A prole do bebê A Pobrezinha
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19A prole do bebê O Polichinelo
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110Malambo op. 7
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111La Muerte del Ángel
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112Noturno No. 4
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113Estudo No. 1
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114Valsa de Esquina No. 1
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115Bailecito
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116Prelúdio
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117Dança brasileira No. 1
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118Retrato d?Alfredo Gobbi
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119Pigmalion
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120Tango-Étude No. 3
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121Tres Piezas op. 6 Cuyana
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122Tres Piezas op. 6 Norteña
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123Tres Piezas op. 6 Criolla
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124Hesitation Tango aus: Souvenirs op. 28
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125Three Preludes Nr. 1 Allegro ben ritmato e deciso
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126Three Preludes Nr. 2 Andante con moto e poco rubato
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127Three Preludes Nr. 3 Allegro ben ritmato e deciso
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21Sonata No. 2 op. 50 ?Eroica?
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22Sonata No. 2 op. 50 ?Eroica?
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23Sonata No. 2 op. 50 ?Eroica?
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24Sonata No. 2 op. 50 ?Eroica?
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25Celtic Set for Two Pianos
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26Celtic Set for Two Pianos
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27Celtic Set for Two Pianos
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28Sonata for Two Pianos (in One Movement
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29Hallelujah Junction for Two Pianos
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31Verpasste Gelegenheiten
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32Verpasste Gelegenheiten
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33Verpasste Gelegenheiten
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314Verpasste Gelegenheiten - Melodram für Sprecher und Klavier
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