Homo Ludens: Piano Music Of Lera Auerbach
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The musical journey recorded here by Eli Kalman reflects on composer Lera Auerbach's borderless creativity and partially on the role and nature of 'play' as a cultural phenomenon. Her music for solo piano – often technically challenging but always highly idiomatic, and which has proved especially popular – also includes a set of 24 preludes, as well as the terse, epigrammatic Ten Dreams (both 1999).
The latter work serves as a useful introduction to Auerbach's colourful and vivid imagination – a world of extreme contrasts and sharp juxtapositions which often exploits wide registers while foregrounding pounding, obsessive repetitions of notes and chords. These oneiric visions are sometimes bathed in a sound world of blurred sonorities and indistinct edges, but such innocent moments disclose the shadow of something far more unsettling lurking underneath
Tracklisting
Delray String Quartet & Tao Lin
Janacek String Quartet & Ivo Kahanek
Te Deum & Matthew Christopher Shepard
Tomas Cotik and Tao Lin
Gianluca Campagnolo
Adam Korniszewski & Boris Andrianov
Viva Vivaldi
Armonia Celeste
Il Divo
Triphonia
Andreas Willwohl & Daniel Heide
Rachel Talitman, Jean-Marc Fessard, Mavoudes Troullos, Pierre Quiriny, Ensemble Mendelssohn
BBC Concert Orchestra, BBC Singers, Alice Farnham
Residentie Orkest The Hague, Jan Willem de Vriend
Marc-Andre Hamelin, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Andrew Litton
Gothic Voices / Christopher Page