Release Date: 03 February 2023
Label: Heresy Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 0715802313516
Genres: Classical Contemporary Country
Description
The Richter Scale is a new piano composition by German composer Boris Bergmann. The hour-long work was created for Steinway's Spirio | r, respected as the world's finest high resolution player piano and receives a stupendous performance on this premiere CD by the young Chinese Steinway Artist Ji Liu.
The Richter Scale is a programmatic composition in 11 movements inspired by Charles F. Richter's scale for measuring the magnitude of earthquakes. The Richter Scale premiered in concert at Steinway Hall London in November in 2019 and was recorded at Steinway Shanghai in September 2021. Over the past year the young London-based Chinese pianist Ji Liu has performed the piece at major concert venues throughout China.
The Richter Scale engages with the theme of subterranean seismic eruption as a broader reflection of cultural and emotional states of trauma, upheaval and resolution. Particularly in our post-pandemic global environment, the work serves as a metaphoric meditation on the environmental, geopolitical, medical, cultural and social cataclysms gripping and transforming the world today.
Tracklisting
Caitriona O'Leary, Seth Lakeman, John Smith, Clara Sanabras, Stile Antico, Alison Balsom
Daniel Figgis
Ji Liu, Boris Bergmann
Ivan Ilic
Caitriona O'Leary & Dulra
eX (Early Music Ensemble)
The Dublin Drag Orchestra
Various Artists
Bone Idle Bros
Ags Connolly
Red Hot Organization
Sara Evans
Hannah Ellis
Jimmy Rankin
Hank Wangford & Noel Dashwood
Patty Loveless
