Reinis Zarins - Piano Works - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

This album by pianist Reinis Zarins and the Trio Palladio is a special personal tribute to composer Arvo Part (b. 1935), one of the most influential composers of our time. This album includes Part's timeless piano works together with a selection of his chamber works, including the famous Fur Alina, Fratres and Spiegel i'm Spiegel alongside his early works. The programme also includes two special dedications by two Latvian composers, Georgs Pelecis and Andrejs Selickis, who both as composers have been greatly influenced by Arvo Part's example and ideas. These two works, written in 2025 for Arvo Part's 90th birthday, receive their first recordings.

Album Tracks 1. Sonata, for Piano I. a 2. Sonata, for Piano II. B 3. Sonata, for Piano III. C 4. Sonata, for Piano IV. D 5. Sonata, for Piano V. E 6. Sonata, for Piano VI. F - Misterioso 7. Sonata, for Piano VII. G - Energico, Meccanico 8. Sonata, for Piano VIII. H - Melos-Solem 9. Sonata, for Piano IX. I - Danza Del Crepuscolo 10. Sonata, for Piano X. L - Danza Dell'aurora Four Sketches 11. Sonata, for Piano XI. M 12. Sonata, for Piano XII. N 13. Sonata, for Piano XIII. O 14. Sonata, for Piano XIV. P 15. Sonata, for Piano XV. Kentoniana Tema E Tre Varianti, Q - Tema 16. Sonata, for Piano XVI. Kentoniana Tema E Tre Varianti R - I Variante 17. Sonata, for Piano XVII. Kentoniana Tema E Tre Varianti S - II Variante 18. Sonata, for Piano XVIII. Kentoniana Tema E Tre Varianti T - III Variante 19. Sonata, for Piano XIX. U - Corteo 20. Sonata, for Piano XX. V - Agorà 21. Sonata, for Piano XXI. Z - Liberazione 22. Seven Epiphanies for Piano I. I 23. Seven Epiphanies for Piano II. II 24. Seven Epiphanies for Piano III. III 25. Seven Epiphanies for Piano IV. IV 26. Seven Epiphanies for Piano V. V 27. Seven Epiphanies for Piano VI. VI 28. Seven Epiphanies for Piano VII. VII 29. Piano Felix I. Andantino 30. Piano Felix II. Ballata 31. Piano Felix III. Allegro Vivo 32. Fiori Musicali I. Artemisia 33. Fiori Musicali II. Hypericum 34. Fiori Musicali III. Ligustrum 35. Fiori Musicali IV. Pulsatilla 36. Fiori Musicali V. Amantilla 37. Fiori Musicali VI. Hesperis 38. Fiori Musicali VII. Speronella 39. Fiori Musicali VIII. Gensara 40. Nella Foresta Degli Alberi Sonanti

Charles-Valentin Alkan is one of the most talented French romantic composers and pianists yet his music has rarely been recorded, and too little performed. Fascinated by the piano, Alkan showed great interest in the progress of instrumental manufacture and composed many works for solo piano; the programme chosen by Yury Favorin includes two of his major compositions. First, the Symphony for Solo Piano. With it's intense, deep, dense style, exploring and shaping the colorful timbres, it is indeed a symphony that Alkan has written for the piano and not a transcription for piano of an orchestral work. The Grand Sonata 'The Four Ages' is worthy of Beethoven's sonatas; this is a masterly work, one of the most accomplished sonatas of the romantic piano and herald of the Liszt Sonata In it's four movements Alkan describes four ages in a man's life 20 years old, 30, 40, and 50, explaining that these Inchcorrespond to a given moment of existence, to a particular disposition of thought, of the imagination.Inch