Kendall / Owen - Music for Piano - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

With his critically acclaimed AVIE Records recordings of music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms, Gabriel Faure´ and Sergei Rachmaninov to his credit, the celebrated British pianist Charles Owen scales the heights of Franz Liszt's anthology Annees de pelerinage, Premiere annee Suisse (InchYears of Travel, First Year SwitzerlandInch), which evokes the great 19th-century pianist-composer's Swiss sojourns with aural impressions of the Alpine landscape, it's peaks and valleys, mountains and streams, and the country's distinctive folk music. Literary references abound as they do in the album's concluding piece, the emotional Benediction de Dieu dans la solitude (InchThe Blessing of God in SolitudeInch) which was inspired by a poem penned by Liszt's friend Alphonse de Lamartine. Emotions ran equally high for Charles Owen who turned to Liszt during lockdown. The uncertainty of being homebound throughout the pandemic was eased by the extra meaning and solace of the composer's evocations of journeying, experiencing the natural world and it's sense of beauty and liberation.

Part of Universal Japan's 'Everything Jazz - Vol. 3 Concord Edition' reissue campaign. Features the high-fidelity UHQCD . Green color tag coating. Universal. 2025.

Piano Music - Piano Music [COMPACT DISCS] date 02/27/2008