Lara Downes - Reform: Solo Piano - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Love at Last is pianist Lara Downes's first Pentatone album, inspired by the poem Sachki, Sachki by the Odessa-born Jewish writer Shaul Tchernichovsky. Downes presents 24 pieces, many of them in world premiere recordings, of works by living composers around the globe. Spanning generations, continents and cultures, these diverse voices are united in a stubborn belief in the possibility of humanity, brotherhood, peace, and compassion, and in the everlasting power of love. An iconoclast and trailblazer, Lara Downes's dynamic work as a sought-after soloist, a Billboard Chart-topping recording artist, a producer, curator, arts activist and advocate positions her as a cultural visionary on the national arts scene. She was honored as 2022 Classical Woman of the Year by Performance Today. Album Tracks 1. Dawn (Arr. J. Siskind for Solo Piano) 2. Wachet Auf, Ruft Uns Die Stimme, BWV 645 (Arr. I. Friedman for Solo Piano) 3. Laugh at All My Dreams (Arr. J. Siskind for Solo Piano) 4. Credo 5. A World of Change 6. Little Love (Arr. for Solo Piano) 7. Frühlingsglaube, D. 686 (Arr. A. Horn for Solo Piano) 8. Tree of Life 9. Earth 10. It Only Ever Rains in November 11. Even This Laughter; Even Your Tears 12. By Loving You (Arr. L. Bellido for Solo Piano) 13. Fluid 14. Meeting Point 15. Parting Friends 16. I'll Be Seeing You (Arr. M. Mayz for Solo Piano) 17. Simple Prayer for Complex Times 18. Blessing 19. Crown Thy Good 20. Healer 21. Mirror the Stars 22. Bright Night 23. Lullaby 24. Amazing Grace (Arr. S.E. Okpebholo for Solo Piano) 25. Audio Commentary

Dimitri's Dragatakis' compositions combine elements of the musical traditions of Epirus in the north-west of Greece with the contemporary music of his age. Album Tracks 1. Nostalgia 2. Butterfly 3. Little Ballad 4. Piano Sonatina No. 1 5. Piano Sonatina No. 2 6. Antiques 7. Anadromes II (Retrospections II) 8. Etude I 9. Etude II 10. Inelia 11. Monologue No. 4

Recipient of the prestigious Grawemeyer and Academy Awards, among other prizes and fellowships, Sebastian Currier composes 'music with a distinctive voice' that is 'lyrical, colorful, firmly rooted in tradition, but absolutely new'. Album Tracks 1. I. Bold and Defiant 2. II. Fragile (With Outbursts) 3. III. Anxious 4. IV. Suppressed 5. V. Multifarious 6. I. a Tune 7. II. a Shift 8. III. a Dialogue 9. IV. a Transformation 10. V. a Reconfiguration 11. VI. a Glimpse 12. Scarlatti Cadences 13. Brainstorm