Lera Auerbach - Tolstoy's Waltz on CD
Lera Auerbach - Tolstoy's Waltz
Conventional CD, playable with all CD players and computer drives, but also with most SACD or multiplayers.
Tolstoy: Walzer in F
+Griboyedov: 2 Walzer
+Pasternak: 2 Preludes; Klaviersonate
+Odoyevsky: 2 Walzer; Canon; Lullaby
+Balanchine: Valse lente
+Polenov: Farewell Song; My Solul is Dark für Bariton & Klavier; To the Sea für Bariton & Klavier
+Fedotov: My Darling für Bariton & Klavier; The Little Cuckoo für Bariton & Klavier
+Diaghilev: Do you remember, Maria für Bariton & Klavier
- Artists:
- Lera Auerbach, Chiyuki Urano (Bariton)
- Label:
- BIS
- Year of recording ca.:
- 2004
- Item number:
- 5327328
- UPC/EAN:
- 7318590015025
- Release date:
- 31.3.2005
Apart from being icons of Russian culture, what did Leo Tolstoy and George Balanchine have in common? Or Boris Pasternak and Sergei Diaghilev, for that matter? The answer is music. These four and the other authors, poets and painters represented on this disc were all passionate music lovers, and at some point in their lives they all composed. Some of them (Pasternak and Balanchine, for instance) at one stage studied music at conservatory level, others, being members of the aristocracy (such as Tolstoy and the early 19th century playwright Alexander Griboyedov) received a musical education as children. (Griboyedov at one stage actually took lessons with John Field.) And others again, like Pavel Fedotov, the founder of the realistic school of painting in Russia, were self-taught as musicians. With these different backgrounds in mind, it is only natural that the music they wrote is highly varied – from typical salon miniatures to the Scriabinesque works by Pasternak, via Fedotov's romances, closer to folk-song than to art song. These differences notwithstanding, and with the obvious reservation that these pieces cannot equal their composers' achievements in their respective specialist fields, ›the fact remains that their music was not isolated from the activities of professional musicians or the rest of Russian cultural life‹, as Marina Tiourcheva points out in the liner notes. And who could be a better exponent of this aspect of Russian cultural life than Lera Auerbach? A pianist and composer (her Twenty-Four Preludes for Violin and Piano has been released on BIS-CD-1242) of increasing renown, she is also a respected author who already in 1996, at the age of 23, was named Poet of the Year by the International Pushkin Society. In the songs included in this programme, Lera Auerbach is joined by baritone Chiyuki Urano, who has participated as soloist on a number of BIS recordings with Bach Collegium Japan.
Rezensionen
»I was knocked for a loop by a new Bis CD by pianist Lera Auerbach called Tolstoy's Waltz. My impression that the title was mere metaphor gave way as I finally deigned to given the thing a closer look, and yes, the author of War and Peace did actually write a waltz, and Ms. Auerbach has recorded it. Not only that, there are two preludes and a sonata here by Boris Pasternak … Apparently any educated 19th century Russian of artistic bent played Beethoven's sonatas passably well and tried his hand at composition just to see, you know, if he had a knack for it … And I'm glad that people like Lera Auerbach are taking care of the musical estates of great writers and painters and thinkers, no matter how slim their content.« ArtsJournal. com, 24 November 2005
Tracklisting
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
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1 Waltz for piano in F major
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2 Waltz for piano in A flat major
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3 Waltz for piano in E minor
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4 Prelude for piano in E flat minor
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5 Prelude for piano in G sharp minor
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6 Sonata for piano in B minor
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7 Sentimental Waltz, for Piano
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8 Canon, for Piano
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9 Lullaby for organ in B major
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10 Sentimental Waltz, for Piano
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11 Farewell Song, for Piano
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12 My Soul is Dark, for Voice & Piano
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13 To the Sea, for Voice & Piano
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14 My Darling, for Voice & Piano
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15 The Little Cuckoo, for Voice & Piano
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16 Do you remember, Maria?, for Voice & Piano
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17 Valse lente, for Piano
