Kim Kashkashian & Lera Auerbach
Release Date: 30 September 2016
Label: ECM New Series
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 028948123223
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Description
Armenian-American violist Kim Kashkashian, one of the major musical voices of ECM New Series, introduces a new duo with Russian-American composer-pianist Lera Auerbach.
Their first recording together features Auerbach's arrangement for viola and piano of Dmitri Shostakovich's often playful 24 Preludes Op. 34, (which the pair introduced to concert audiences in 2013) and Auerbach's own, darker, Sonata for viola and piano, Arcanum.
Lera Auerbach says: "'Arcanum' means 'mysterious knowledge', and I was fascinated by the inner voice within each of us, some may call it perhaps intuition, some may call it may be guided meditation, but there is some knowledge that we have, which we may not necessarily verbalize or rationalize, but that allows us to see the truth, to be guided, to seek answers."
Auerbach wrote her sonata for Kashkashian: "There is a quality of life-or-death-intensity to her performing, which is rare and wonderful."
Personnel: Kim Kashkashian (viola), Lera Auerbach (piano)
Tracklisting
Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica & Vida Mikneviciute
Arvo Part
Thomas Larcher
John Holloway Ensemble
Heinz Holliger & Anton Kernjak
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra & Tonu Kaljuste
Karlheinz Stockhausen Michaels Reise
Andras Schiff
Rafael Catala, Musica Iberica
Carlotta Malquori, Andrea D'Amato
Ensemble La Francaise
Christoph Croise; Andrey Baranov; Alexander Panfilov
Trio Parnassus
Kilian Herold, Barbara Buntrock, Florian Donderer, Tanja Tetzlaff
Narratio Quartet
Beau Soir Trio
