Various Artists - Entre Dos Tiempos - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

In his latest album Intermissions, pianist Svetozar Ivanov continues his tradition of creating compact discs with thematic unity and artistic cohesiveness. In the year of Beethoven's 250th anniversary, Svetozar Ivanov juxtaposes the composer's last Piano Sonata in C Minor op. 111 with Contrapunctus I from J. S. Bach's last work The Art of Fugue, and Mozart's Sonata K. 330 in C Major. Four Intermissions, by the American avant-garde composer Morton Feldman, who describes the peace and timelessness of these works as Inchvibrating stasisInch, serve as an audio palate cleanser between each work. The album cover displays one of Edward Hopper's last paintings Intermission, a powerful representation of a solitary figure in a public space. Intermissions is Svetozar Ivanov's fifth solo album with Gega New. In a fast-paced world where one rarely listens to an entire album, he keeps producing albums with unifying feel and pace, ones that ideally should be experienced as a complete concert. Album Tracks 1. Intermissions~Intermission I 2. Sonata No. 10 in C Major, K 330~I. Allegro Moderato 3. Sonata No. 10 in C Major, K 330~II. Andante Cantabile 4. Sonata No. 10 in C Major, K 330~III. Allegretto 5. Intermissions~Intermission II 6. Art of Fugue, BWV 1080~Contrapunctus I 7. Intermission III 8. Sonata No. 32 in C Minor, Op. 111~I. Maestoso - Allegro con brio ed appassionato 9. Sonata No. 32 in C Minor, Op. 111~II. Arietta. Adagio molto semplice e cantabile 10. Intermission IV

Album Tracks 1. Le Nozze Di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), K. 492 Overture 2. Liebestraume, S541/R211 No. 3 Nocturne in a Flat Major 3. Concierto de Aranjuez II. Adagio 4. Fantasy-Impromptu in C Sharp minor, Op. 66 5. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 21 and Op. 61 VII. Notturno - Con Moto Tranquillo 6. Marchenerzahlungen, Op. 132 III. Ruhiges Tempo, Mit Zartem Ausdruck 7. Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26 II. Adagio 8. Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13, Pathetique II. Adagio Cantabile 9. Harpsichord Concerto in F minor, BWV 1056 II. Largo 10. Nocturne in B Flat minor, Op. 9, No. 1 11. Canon in D Major 12. Elegie, Op. 23, Under the Impression of Zeyer's Vysehrad 13. Waltz in B minor, Op. 69, No. 2

An ensemble comprising oboe, bassoon and pianoforte is certainly the offspring of the violin-cello-pianoforte trio but produces a wonderful sound world all it's own, combining the three instruments perfectly. Which is why the Linguaggi Sonori Ensemble commissioned a series of trios from a number of contemporary Italian composers in order to explore the range of sounds which this lineup is capable of producing and to enrich the repertoire for it. The result is instrumental timbres and compositional techniques owing something to the twentieth-century avantgarde or to Minimalism in their own right, yet more often than not is a fusion of these elements resulting in something new and exciting from the combination of oboe, bassoon and pianoforte.