Leo Ornstein: Klavierwerke
Klavierwerke
CD
CD (Compact Disc)
Herkömmliche CD, die mit allen CD-Playern und Computerlaufwerken, aber auch mit den meisten SACD- oder Multiplayern abspielbar ist.
- Suicide in an Airplane; A la Chinoise op. 39; Danse sauvage op. 13, 2; Poemes of 1917 op. 41; Arabesques op. 42; Impressions de la Tamise op. 13, 1; Klaviersonate Nr. 8
- Künstler: Marc-Andre Hamelin (Klavier)
- Label: Hyperion, DDD, 2001
- Bestellnummer: 6207483
- Erscheinungstermin: 28.10.2002
Product-Information:
When Leo Ornstein died in February 2002, the musical world lost a fascinating composer, quite possibly the oldest of all time (the year of his birth is uncertain, but he was probably 109 years old). Ornstein had an extraordinary life: he was a child-prodigy pianist in his native Russia, a refugee from anti-Semitism, an avant garde American composer and a virtuoso pianist of international renown in his early twenties. However, at the height of his fame he voluntarily turned his back on the limelight and took sanctuary in increasing obscurity, and having been almost entirely forgotten, he lived long enough to take satisfaction in the re-emergence of an interest in his music—of which this CD is early testimony.
Ornstein's early piano works were unlike anything else in music. He employed the piano as a percussion instrument, pounding out savage rhythms and ferocious cluster-chords with a raw primal energy. He embraced atonality independently of Schoenberg and rhythmic primitivism unaware of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. The titles of his pieces—among them Danse sauvage and Suicide in an Airplane—reflected the extremist brutality of the music and rapidly gained him notoriety. By his early twenties he was one of the most highly reputed of contemporary composers.
The music on this CD comes from each end of Ornstein's improbably long creative career. The shorter works were written at its outset, while the large-scale, kaleidoscopic Eighth Piano Sonata, his last composition, was finished in September 1990, when he was in his late nineties.
The ever-inquisitive Marc-André Hamelin gives commanding performances of these supremely demanding works. The result is a stunning disc that reveals one of the twentieth century's most original and quirkily imaginative creative minds.
Rezensionen
»Marc-André Hamelin plays Ornstein's music with commanding savoir-faire« (The Irish Times)
»Marc-André Hamelin plays magisterially, as ever. He clearly loves this music« (International Record Review)
»A provocative collection, brilliantly played and splendidly engineered« (International Piano)
»A tremendous tribute to a fascinating figure in 20th-century music« (The Daily Telegraph)
»Stimulating and frequently astonishing music, ultimately unlike anyone else's« (BBC Music Magazine)
- Tracklisting
- Details
- Mitwirkende
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
- 1 Suicide in an Airplane
- 2 A la Chinoise op. 39
- 3 Danse sauvage op. 13 Nr. 2
Poems of 1917 op. 41
- 4 No man's land: Andante espressivo
- 5 The sower of despair: Moderato
- 6 The orient in flanders: andantino molto espressivo
- 7 The wrath of the despoiled: Sostenuto molto appassionato
- 8 Night brooding over the battlefield: Moderato e misterioso
- 9 A dirge of the trenches: Lento
- 10 Song behind the lines: Andante con moto e malinconioso
- 11 The battle: Allegro e molto appassionato
- 12 Army at prayer: Allegro, ma non troppo
- 13 Dance of the dead: vivo con fuoco
Arabesque op. 42
- 14 The isle of elephantine
- 15 Primal echo
- 16 Chant of hindoo priests
- 17 Shadowed waters
- 18 A melancholy landscape
- 19 Pompeian fresco
- 20 Passion
- 21 Les basoches
- 22 The wailing and raging wind
- 23 Impressions de la Tamise op. 13 Nr. 1
Sonate für Klavier Nr. 8
- 24 1. Life's turmoil and a few bits of satire
- 25 2. A trip to the attic - A tear or two for a childhood forever gone
- 26 The bugler
- 27 A lament for a lost boy
- 28 A half-multilated cradle - Berceuse
- 29 3. Disciplines and imrpovisations
