Anna Gourari
Elusive Affinity
- Type CD
- Label ECM New Series
- UPC 0028948181315
- Catalog number ECM 4818131
- Release date 24 May 2019
About the album
In this imaginatively shaped and sensitively played album – her third for ECM - Russian pianist Anna Gourari explores musical connections and influences extending across the arts. Three suites of contemporary music are heard here. Alfred Schnittke’s Five Aphorisms (1990) draw impulses from the poetry of his friend Joseph Brodsky. Rodion Shchedrin’s Diary - Seven Pieces (2002) dedicated to Gourari and inspired by her playing, reflects the life of a pianist and composer. Wolfgang Rihm’s sequence of tombeaux, Zwiesprache (1999) pays tribute to musicologists Alfred Schlee and Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht, conductor Paul Sacher, and art sociologist Hermann Wiesler. Threaded between the cycles are two Giya Kancheli miniatures drawn from theatre and movie music, as well as Arvo Pärt’s early tintinnabuli-style Variations for the Healing of Arinuschka(1977). Gourari’s investigation of artistic affinities is framed with Bach’s transcriptions of Venetian composers Antonio Vivaldi and Alessandro Marcello: “Anna Gourari makes these Bach slow movements, too, ours,” Paul Griffiths writes in the liner notes. “And the newer music is cherished and invigorated.”
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11Largo BWV 975
03:46 -
12Five Aphorisms Moderato assai
03:51 -
13Five Aphorisms Allegretto
02:15 -
14Five Aphorisms Lento
02:14 -
15Five Aphorisms Senza tempo
02:33 -
16Five Aphorisms Grave
03:03 -
17Piano piece No. 15
01:31 -
18Diary – Seven pieces Sostenuto assai
00:50 -
19Diary – Seven pieces L'istesso tempo
02:12 -
110Diary – Seven pieces Allegretto moderato (in ritmo)
02:12 -
111Diary – Seven pieces Allegro, ma non troppo
00:46 -
112Diary – Seven pieces Lento, sempre poco rubato
03:37 -
113Diary – Seven pieces Presto leggiero
01:07 -
114Diary – Seven pieces Sostenuto alla campana
04:46 -
115Variationen zur Gesundung von Arinuschka
05:36 -
116Zwiesprache Alfred Schlee in memoriam
03:03 -
117Zwiesprache Paul Sacher in memoriam
04:03 -
118Zwiesprache Heinrich Klotz in memoriam
03:44 -
119Zwiesprache Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht in memoriam
03:38 -
120Zwiesprache Hermann Wiesler in memoriam
02:19 -
121Piano piece No. 23
01:23 -
122Adagio BWV 974
03:52