Nadezda Pisareva - L’adoration de la Terre - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Common ground in differences, moments, and eternity The new GENUIN album by the internationally award-winning pianist Nadezda Pisareva makes great strides with major works by Franz Schubert and Ludwig van Beethoven. The younger composer's six Moments musicaux and the older composer's Hammerklavier Sonata were written at roughly the same time, both marking the epochal shift from the Classical to the Romantic era in their own way. The young pianist, who counts pianist Georgy Tchaidze, violinist Diana Tischenko and the Casals Quartet among her chamber music partners, is enormously impressive in her approach to both musical works, tracing their structures with clarity. Album Tracks 1. Moments Musicaux D 780, Op. 94 (1828) 2. Klaviersonate NR. 29 B-Dur, Op. 106, InchHammerklaviersonateInch (1819)

Prometheus defied the gods to steal fire and give it to humanity. The ancient titan's priceless gift, used since for good and ill, has never lost it's fascination. Yo Kosuge, praised for her immaculate technique and penetrating artistry, explores creative responses to fire in the second volume of her Four Elements project. The Berlin-based Japanese pianist's latest Orchid Classics album moves from pieces filled with nostalgic warmth to others animated by hell's tormenting flames. InchBy showing these many different aspects of fire, I want to lead the listener through different stories as told by composers, from the Romantic to contemporary periods,Inch comments Yu Kosuge. Four Elements Fire is built around compositions written during the First World War, each hallmarked by harmonic daring and searing emotions. It's tracklist includes a selection of Max Reger's sublime Traume am Kamin, fireside dreams preserved in the form of musical miniatures; Vers la flamme, among Alexander Scriabin's final compositions and one his most intense; Debussy's breathtaking Feux d'artifice, a pyrotechnic tour de force; and the Ritual Fire Dance from Manuel de Falla's ballet El amor brujo. Yu's programme also embraces earlier works. She opens with 'January At the Fireside' from Tchaikovsky's The Seasons before unleashing the scorching energy of Liszt's Symphonic Poem No.5 'Prometheus'. Four Elements Fire concludes with six excerpts from Stravinsky's The Firebird, the work that made it's young composer's name. Album Tracks 1. January At the Fireside, from InchThe SeasonsInch, Op. 37B 2. Traume Am Kamin, Op. 143 3. Symphonic Poems No. 5 InchPrometheusInch 4. Les Soirs Illumines Par L'ardeur Du Charbon 5. Preludes Book II Feux D'artifice 6. Vers la Flamme, Op. 72 7. El Amor Brujo (Piano Version By de Falla -Excerpts) 8. The Firebird (Piano Version By Stravinsky - Exce

It was a sensation, crowned by an OPUS KLASSIK award the rediscovery of Johann Daniel Pucklitz's 'Oratorio secondo'. The breathtaking music of the Gdansk composer inspired Andrzej Szadejko and his Goldberg Baroque & Vocal Ensemble to embark on a complete edition of his works. The first instalment features two Lutheran masses and a number of cantatas that are set to rewrite the musical history of the Baltic region.