Tetiana Shafran - Piano Works - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. Sacred Choral Works Spem in Alium 2. Sacred Choral Works Te Lucis Ante Terminum 3. Sacred Choral Works O Nata Lux 4. Sacred Choral Works I. Incipit Lamentatio Jeremiae Prophetae 5. The Lamentations of Jeremiah II. de Lamentatione Jeremiae Prophetae 6. Sacred Choral Works O Sacrum Convivium 7. Sacred Choral Works Jesu Salvator Saeculi 8. Sacred Choral Works Salvator Mundi, Salva Nos 9. Sacred Choral Works Loquebantur Variis Linguis 10. Sacred Choral Works Gaude Gloriosa Dei Mater

Olena Kushpler writes InchEver since my youth I have been fascinated by the music of Leoš Janácek initially by his vocal works, particularly Jenufa, an opera with an unadulterated 'peasant' tone of such radical authenticity that it transforms itself into avant-garde music. I only discovered Janácek's piano repertoire at a later date, and immediately grasped his basic aesthetic principle he wanted to write a music of truth. Virtuosity for virtuosity's sake had no place in his approach. I understood that the Bohemian master staked out a clear position in the great musical debate of the 1800s. It raged, on the one hand, between formal aesthetics, which viewed music as Inchsonically moving formsInch (in the words of Vienna critic doyen Eduard Hanslick), and, on the other hand, the musical content aesthetics of Berlioz, Schumann, Wagner, and Bruckner, who devoted their efforts to transforming poetry and even philosophy into music. In Janácek, I also feel that he strives to imbue each phrase with profound expression, thereby creating music that reflects his feelings, hopes, and disappointments. Janácek's music draws it's energy from contrasts, which can be violent at times each piece contains moments of brilliant luminosity as well as dramatic conflict. I view his piano cycle On An Overgrown Path as a clearly autobiographical work that reflects the experiences and moods he encountered in real life. The death of his daughter Olga led to profound despair, and the titles of individual pieces reflect how a father's thoughts revolved around the memories of his lost child. Our Evenings, A Blown-Away Leaf, and Words Fail are all individual pieces that foreshadow the tragedy to come. The cycle culminates in The Barn Owl Has Not Flown Away!, and we can note that folk belief viewed the barn owl as an ominous messenger of death.Inch

Marina Samson Primachenko writes about the music on this InchThe idea to include in one programme music woven together by inner poetic links came to me earlier when I was preparing a solo recital which was to include piano music by Boris Pasternak. Pasternak's music had been on my mind for a long time by simply just existing - music by a poet, writer, Nobel Prize laureate, friend of Heinrich Neuhaus. Yevgeniy Pasternak (the son of Boris Pasternak) at the time expressed his wish that the album should include the music of his father in company with the works of Skryabin, emphasizing that Boris Pasternak appreciated and loved his early works up to Sonata No. 5. All these wishes have been fulfilled in the drawing up of the repertoire on this .Inch