Der Bote: Elegies for Piano
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Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel BachComposer: John [1] Cage
Composer: Tigran Mansurian
Composer: Franz Liszt
Composer: Mikhail Glinka
Composer: Frederic Chopin
Composer: Valentin Silvestrov
Composer: Claude Debussy
Composer: Bela Bartok
Performer: Aleksei Lubimov
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2002-06-25
Music Label: Ecm Import
Soundtracks:
- CPE Bach: Fantasie fur Klavier fis-Moll
- Cage: In a landscape
- Mansurian: Nostalgia
- Liszt: Abschied
- Glinka: Nocturne f-Moll "La separation"
- Chopin: Prelude cis-Moll op. 45
- Silvestrov: Elegie
- Debussy: Elegie
- Bartok: Vier Klagelieder op. 9a, Nr. 1
- Silvestrov: Der Bote
Music reviews of Der Bote: Elegies for Piano
Music Review: More ECM magic
Rating: 5 Stars
Not having a musical vocabulary, I can only attempt to tell you why I love this curiously eclectic program of piano music. Not many collections will give you a selection of composers that range from C.P.E. Bach to John Cage. Mind you, Lubimov plays C.P.E. Bach in a style which illuminates the similarities between these two brilliant composers born two hundred years apart. Lubimov slows the music down and gets into the spaces between the notes. If you haven't heard Cage's In A Landscape before, you are in for a major treat. I had heard the Debussy Elegie before, of course, but I have never heard it like this. It is also wonderful to hear Silvestrov, an unjustly neglected contemporary composer, played so well. My advice is to set the scene carefully before you play the music. It should be quiet, no distractions, perhaps early evening. Some candles, a calm housecat bathing itself on a cushion, and a swallow of cognac or red wine would also help create a felicitous atmosphere. Each note on this CD counts. Somehow this music gives life a perspective. It puts cares, worries and compulsions in their proper place. It helps you realise that there is much more to living than the mundane. Who needs drugs when you can experience wonderful music like this?
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All products are BRAND NEW and factory sealed. Fast shipping and 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.Comprising three centuries of noted composers' "minor" works, Lubimov's Der Bote (The Messenger) bears out its title with short, introspective pieces that capture thoughts of nostalgia, mourning, and meditation. The first work, C.P.E. Bach's 1787 Fantasy, sounds amazingly avant-garde, full of surprising darts and turns. And the experimental 20th-century composer John Cage's "In a Landscape" is an even bigger surprise. Instead of random keyboard plink-plunks, it's a diaphanous Debussyan tone poem, bound to startle party guests playing Name That Composer.
Liszt's otherworldly "Abschied," Glinka's achingly beautiful Nocturne "La Separation," and Bartók's bleak "Vier Klagelieder" (Four Dirges) are highlights, but so are virtually all the other selections--especially Lubimov's moving interpretation of Chopin's neglected Prelude op. 45. Valentin Silvestrov is represented by his stark Elegie, and the fascinating "Der Bote," which vainly attempts to recall the lost world of classicism through Mozart quotations that fragment into shards. This is a concept album that works, each short gem casting refracted light on the others. Despite the New Age implications of an album of short, contemplative music, there's solid substance and stunning pianism here. --Dan Davis
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