Michael Levinas - Metamorphose - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. Partita in B-Flat Major, BWV 825 - Introduction 2. Partita in B-Flat Major, BWV 825 - Prelude 3. Partita in B-Flat Major, BWV 825 - Allemande 4. Partita in B-Flat Major, BWV 825 - Courante 5. Partita in B-Flat Major, BWV 825 - Sarabande 6. Partita in B-Flat Major, BWV 825 - Menuett I 7. Partita in B-Flat Major, BWV 825 - Menuett II 8. Partita in B-Flat Major, BWV 825 - Gigue 9. Lieder Ohne Worte Op. 30, No. 2 in B-Flat minor 10. Lieder Ohne Worte Op. 67, No. 3 in B-Flat Major 11. Lieder Ohne Worte Op. 30, No. 5 in D Major 12. Notebooks for Anna Magdalena Bach - No. 5 Menuet 13. Notebooks for Anna Magdalena Bach - No. 7 Menuet 14. Notebooks for Anna Magdalena Bach - No. 22 Musette 15. Notebooks for Anna Magdalena Bach - No. 18 Marche 16. Notebooks for Anna Magdalena Bach - No. 19 Polonaise 17. 6 Gesange, Op.19A - Neue Liebe 18. 6 Lieder, Op.71 - Nachtlied (Joseph Von Eichendorff), 1847 19. Prelude and Fugue in C-Sharp minor, BWV 849 - Prelude 20. Prelude and Fugue in C-Sharp minor, BWV 849 - Fugue 21. Lieder Ohne Worte Op. 102, No. 5 in a Major

This historic couples George Crumb's earliest work for piano, the Five Pieces for Piano (1962) with his most recent piano cycle, Metamorphoses (2017). Margaret Leng Tan has long been a champion of Crumb's music, and he composed Metamorphoses (Book 1) for her. This recording is of the German premiere at the legendary Donaueschingen Festival in 2017. Crumb's Metamorphoses is a natural descendent of his monumental Makrokosmos I & II piano cycle of the early 1970s. With a nod to Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, each movement of the Metamorphoses is inspired by a famous painting. And, like the Makrokosmos, it requires the pianist to be a virtuoso not only at the keyboard but playing inside the piano and vocalizing as well. Ms. Tan is regarded at the InchDiva of the Toy Piano,Inch and Crumb has also incorporated the toy piano and toy percussion instruments into some movements. Crumb says InchI have always been most fortunate to have had outstanding pianists who were willing to tackle the formidable technical and musical innovations in my scores. And among the very finest of these is Margaret Leng Tan for whom I wrote Metamorphoses (Book l). Margaret's technical prowess and superb artistic sensitivity is a combination that must warm the heart of any composer!Inch The album also includes the early Five Pieces for Piano. All the components of Crumb's mature compositional language are already evident a broad palette of coloristic effects along with an extraordinarily sensitive command of nuance, his unmistakable musical gestures, an inherent sense of drama coupled with a magical suspenseful atmosphere and a battery of interior piano effects demanding that the pianist be somewhat of a harpist and percussionist as well. Album Tracks 1. Metamorphoses, Book I 1. No. 1. Black Prince 00 05 14 2. No. 2. the Goldfish 00 02 53 3. No. 3. Wheatfield with Crows 00 04 5

Album Tracks 1. Prelude a la Nuit 2. Malaguena 3. Habanera 4. Feria 5. (Introduction) 6. Barcarola. Dolcemente Languido 7. Tarantella. Vivo 8. Notturnino. Sonnolento, Languidamente Voluttuoso. Sonorita Sempre Piena E Calorosa 9. Cadenzetta. Briosissimo 10. Ripresa. Con Disinvoltura Graziosa Ed Elegante 11. Variation 56 from Symphonic Variations for Piano and Orchestra 12. Dans Un Rythme Languide Et Indolent 13. Transcription in the Light of Harpsichord Technique for the Modern Piano 14. Fugue 15. Pasticcio Capriccioso - Fryderyk Chopin