Concord
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IVES / BERG / WEBERN
Concord
Alexei Lubimov (piano)
[ Zig-Zag Territories / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 10 July 2015
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Alexei Lubimov is a very great pianist and an authentically eclectic musician. Close to the music of today - he has played and recorded works by many contemporary composers and founded the Alternativa festival in Moscow, he is also impassioned by early instruments and Baroque music, as well as by all the music in between.
This new recording stages the encounter of music of the Second Vienna School with that of the American Charles Ives. And this time, Alexei Lubimov has chosen to play on a modern instrument.
"It's a provocative mix: Charles Ives isn't often juxtaposed with the Second Viennese School...That's underlined here by Lubimov's account of the Ives, which is rugged, uncompromising and often thrilling...Lubimov seems to delight in that roughness, and his playing celebrates the complexity and technical challenges as much as it does the moments of poetry that unfold when the welter dies away." (Guardian)
"Virtuosity may be pushed to the very limit in the fantastical whirligig of quotations comprising the second movement tribute to Nathaniel Hawthorne, but the homely simplicities of the Alcotts are quite as successfully characterised. The piano sound is vivid and, apart from a solitary cough, one would hardly know an audience is present." (BBC Music)
Tracks:
Berg:
Piano Sonata, Op. 1
Ives, C:
Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 19 'Concord, Mass., 1840-1860'
Webern:
Variations, Op. 27
