Daniela Braun - Anatol Vieru: Piano & Chamber Music - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The music of the Romanian composer Anatol Vieru (1926-98) is an arresting fusion of classical procedures, avant-garde modernism and folk roots; an accent from his Jewish heritage - he narrowly escaped a pogrom in the ghetto of his native Iasi in 1944 - also underlies his musical impulses. These divergent influences fed into a musical language that is simultaneously familiar and intriguingly unconventional, with hypnotic, quasi-minimalist passages rubbing shoulders with bursts of wild, gypsy-like energy. It can likewise encompass both an epic sense of scale and chuckling good humour. Album Tracks 1. Piano Trio~I. Quarter note ˜ 72 2. Piano Trio~II. Quarter note = 84-88 3. Piano Trio~III. Quarter note = 80 4. Piano Trio~IV. Half note = 64 5. Versete for piano and violin, Op. 116 6. Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 140~I. Quarter note ˜ 48-50 7. Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 140~II. Dotted Eighth note = 120 8. Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 140~III. Quarter note = 40