Anna Gourari - Elusive Affinity - Import CD

Credits:

Anna Gourari

Description:

Gourlari ECM's Third Album Explores Musical Connections and Influences Spreading Through the ArtsRussian pianist Anna Gourlari explores musical connections and influences spreading through the arts on this imaginative and finely played album, her third for ECM. Three contemporary pieces are heard here. Alfred Schnittke's Five Aphorisms (1990) draws on impulses from the poetry of his friend Joseph Brodsky. Rodion Sichedrin's Diary - Seven Piano Works (2002), dedicated to Gouralli and inspired by her playing, reflects the life of a pianist and composer. Zwiesprache (1999), lined with memorials to Wolfgang Rihm, is dedicated to musicologists Alfred Schley and Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht, conductor Paul Sacher, and art and sociologist Hermann Wieseler. Interspersed among these series of works are two pieces from plays and films by Gia Cancelli, and Arvo Pärt's early Tintinabli style Variations on the Healing of Arinouska (1977).Gouralli's study of artistic relationships is framed by Bach arrangements from works by Venetian composers Antonio Vivaldi and Alessandro Marcello. Paul Griffiths writes in his liner notes. Anna Gouralli has made these Bach slow movements ours, too, and the new music is cherished and nurtured. And the new music is carefully nurtured and energized". Universal Music/IMS

Tracklisting:

1.Concerto in G Minor, BWV 975 (after Vivaldi RV 316)~2. Largo
2.Five Aphorisms for Piano~1. Moderato assai
3.Five Aphorisms for Piano~2. Allegretto
4.Five Aphorisms for Piano~3. Lento
5.Five Aphorisms for Piano~4. Senza tempo
6.Five Aphorisms for Piano~5. Grave
7.Songbook~Piano Piece No. 15
8.Diary - Seven Pieces for Piano~1. Sostenuto assai
9.Diary - Seven Pieces for Piano~2. L'istesso tempo
10.Diary - Seven Pieces for Piano~3. Allegretto moderato (in ritmo)
11.Diary - Seven Pieces for Piano~4. Allegro, ma non troppo
12.Diary - Seven Pieces for Piano~5. Lento, sempre poco rubato
13.Diary - Seven Pieces for Piano~6. Presto leggiero
14.Diary - Seven Pieces for Piano~7. Sostenuto alla campana
15.Variationen zur Gesundung von Arinuschka
16.Zwiesprache~Alfred Schlee in memoriam
17.Zwiesprache~Paul Sacher in memoriam
18.Zwiesprache~Heinrich Klotz in memoriam
19.Zwiesprache~Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht in memoriam
20.Zwiesprache~Hermann Wiesler in memoriam
21.Songbook~Piano Piece No. 23
22.Concerto in D Minor, BWV 974 (after Marcello S.Z799)~2. Adagio