Sofya Gandilyan - Goethe-Lieder - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Sofya Melikyan's fascinating album has as it's inspiration the great Ricardo Viñes, composer and pianist, champion of young progressive composers (he was Satie's favorite performer of his music), whose friends included among others Picasso, Gide, Colette, Cocteau. Cocteau said of him InchViñes does not play, he elucidatesInch. To define Viñes Inchthe shining light of contemporary artInch, as Adolfo Salazar described him in 1918 as the pianist of the French avant-garde is absolutely correct, albeit quite inadequate at the same time. Like his compatriots Granados and Malats, he was a student of de Bériot, and taking First Prize in piano at the Paris Conservatoire in 1894 followed by his first recital at the Salle Pleyel on 21 February 1895 marked the launch of a career that, over the course of four decades, would prove to be as frenetic as it was thrilling. Viñes's insatiable curiosity for so-called 'modern music' and his ever restless temperament, always eager to discover neglected repertoire of the present day and to present it to the public as well as music from the past, became apparent very early on, as in his recital of 18 April 1898 at the Salle Érard, at which he gave the premiere of the Menuet antique by one of his first and greatest friends in Paris, Maurice Ravel, or in his historic cycle of four concerts that he would give in the same hall between March and April 1905 devoted to 'Keyboard music from it's origins to the present day'.

?Madrid-born Eduardo Costa Roldán, has premiered more than thirty chamber and symphonic works. Composition of educational materials is one of his main creative concerns. Tempo de Huida and Berlín 1928, two of the works included in this album Perfil del aire, were born with a clear didactic purpose. The other four titles (Diálogo de sombras, Tríptico, Escenas de la vida de Poulenc and Dos imágenes) were commissioned by renowned flautists. Julián Elvira is Spain's leading name in experimental music for the flute, both from the performing and academic world. His comprehensive classical training, his commitment to the performative component in his projects, along with his attraction to the sounds of different cultures, make Elvira a unique flautist. Sofya Melikyan, brings her expertise on the keyboard as well as her aesthetic affinity with Costa's musical expression. Trained in her native Armenia and later in Madrid, Paris and New York, Melikyan values rigour, technique and great expressiveness in her interpretations. A collection that allows us to get to know the author's different creative stages and his varied profiles through the flute. As Luis Cernuda writes in his first collection of poems, from 1927, entitled Perfil del aire (the book from which the composer has taken the name of this album) InchGuardada está la dicha / en el aire vacíoInch (InchHappiness is enclosed / in empty airInch).

Sofia Gubaidulina - Offertorium / Rejoice [COMPACT DISCS] date 10/12/1994