Michael Blake: Klavierwerke "Afrikosmos" on 2 CDs

Spotted Dikkop and Black Cuckoo; Linong tsa Lesiba (Song of the Birds); African Doves (Homage to Messiaen); If I had Wings I could fly (Trad. arr. Blake); Walking SOng (Homage to Percy Grainger); Stroll to the Spaza Shop (Homage to Stanley Glasser); Chorale (Homage to MMM); Lyric Piece (Homage to Grieg); Call and Response; Ntsikana's Bell (Ntsikana Gaba arr. Blake); John Knox Bokwe's Plea for Africa; Heaven's Bow; iKos'tina; Variations on a Flute Tune; Emerging Melody; Stickfighting Song; Threshing Song; To comfort a child (Lullaby); You are a real rascal; Canon at the Octave; Wedding Song; Night Music; Self Delective Song; Latshon'ilanga (The sun has set); Song for the Eveing (Trad. arr. Blake); Unevensong; Dance in Seakhi Rhythm (Homage to Bartok and JP Mohapeloa); Chacone in Mbaqanga Style; In Goema Style; Tickey-draai; Daar kom die Alibama; Diary of a Dung Beetle; Scents of Childhood 1 & 2 (Hommage to Robert Schumann); Scents of Childhood 3 (Homage to Schumann & Puccini); Interlocking Hands; Changing Times with Repeating Patterns; Five Finger Patterns; Weave; Distant Cowbells; Lusikisiki; Giyani; There cried a hippo; Reedpipe Dance; Four-note Patterns; Slow Dance; Lebombo Bone; Broken Line; The music flows jolly as it won't stop forever (Perpetuum mobile); March (Homage to Stefan Wolpe); Messange from the Nduna (Homage to György Kurtag); Ituri Rain Forest (Homage to JSB); Reflection (Homage to Erik Satie); Two Modes Interlocking; In the Hexatonic Mode; Major-Minor; Patterns in a Hepatonic Field; Keep left, pass right; Geyer off! Hat on!; Stay on Path; The Seven Steps; Ostinato with Cross Rhythms; Smoke and Mirrors; Postcards from South Africa; Une Sonnerie Pou G D; High Fives; Supermoon (Homage to Henry Cowell); Sefapanosaurus; Thirds; Variations on 4ths and 5ths; Fifths; Seventh Must Fall; Haiku; Freedom Day Variation

Artists:

Antony Gray (Klavier)

Label:

Divine Art

Year of recording ca.:

2021

Item number:

11413233

UPC/EAN:

0809730137426

Release date:

14.4.2023