Ana Sokolovic - Jeu Des Portraits - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Angèle Dubeau - Portrait [COMPACT DISCS] date 10/14/2008

Following her passion for seeking out rare musical gems, Angèle Dubeau presents Portrait Alex Baranowski, the 6th opus in her series of albums dedicated to contemporary composers, which began in 2008 with Portrait Philippe Glass. A successful young composer based in London, multiple award winner and graduate of Paul McCartney's LIPA, Alex Baranowski offers beautiful and generous music, rich in sound atmospheres. Under the breathtaking interpretation of Angèle Dubeau and her remarkable ensemble, La Pietà, this work reveals a wonderfully expressive and sensitive writing for the violin. The album includes several key works from Baranowski's repertoire as well as three previously unreleased pieces, including Wiosna, a commission that the composer describes as one of his most intimate works.

These seldom-heard Schubert lieder- setting verses by German poets including Schiller and Goethe- reflect the Romantic era's artistic obsession with the classical myths and literature of ancient Greece. The resulting songs and duets reveal levels of fantasy and nobility rarely found among Schubert's nearly 700 lieder. As performed by renowned artists soprano Susanna Phillips, bass-baritone Shenyang, and pianist Brian Zeger, these memorable pieces will come as a revelation to lieder fans. Listeners who revisit the Inchlost worldInch of Greek antiquity in this recording will revel in it's deep, three-dimensional splendor the combined genius of Schubert, two legendary poets, and three marvelous musicians.