Anna Gourari - Elusive Affinity: Part, Schnittke, Kancheli, Bach And More [CD]

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In this imaginatively shaped and sensitively played album u2013 her third for ECM u2013 Russian pianist Anna Gourari explores musical connections and influences extending across the arts.

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Three suites of contemporary music are heard here. Alfred Schnittke's Five Aphorisms (1990) draw impulses from the poetry of his friend Joseph Brodsky. Rodion Shchedrin's Diary - Seven Pieces (2002) dedicated to Gourari and inspired by her playing, reflects the life of a pianist and composer. Wolfgang Rihm's sequence of tombeaux, Zwiesprache (1999) pays tribute to musicologists Alfred Schlee and Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht, conductor Paul Sacher, and art sociologist Hermann Wiesler. rr

Threaded between the cycles are two Giya Kancheli miniatures drawn from theatre and movie music, as well as Arvo Pxe4rt's early tintinnabuli-style Variations for the Healing of Arinuschka (1977). Gourari's investigation of artistic affinities is framed with Bach's transcriptions of Venetian composers Antonio Vivaldi and Alessandro Marcello: 'Anna Gourari makes these Bach slow movements, too, ours,' Paul Griffiths writes in the liner notes. 'And the newer music is cherished and invigorated.'

Vivaldi / J S Bach: Largo BWV 975

Schnittke: Five Aphorisms - Moderato assai

Schnittke: Five Aphorisms - Allegretto

Schnittke: Five Aphorisms - Lento

Schnittke: Five Aphorisms - Senza tempo

Schnittke: Five Aphorisms - Grave

Kancheli: Piano piece No. 15

Shchedrin: Diary - Seven pieces - Sostenuto assai

Shchedrin: Diary - L'istesso tempo

Shchedrin: Diary - Allegretto moderato (in ritmo)

Shchedrin: Diary - Allegro, ma non troppo

Shchedrin: Diary - Lento, sempre poco rubato

Shchedrin: Diary - Presto leggiero

Shchedrin: Diary - Sostenuto alla campana

Pxe4rt: Variationen zur Gesundung von Arinuschka

Rihm: Zwiesprache - Alfred Schlee in memoriam

Rihm: Zwiesprache - Paul Sacher in memoriam

Rihm: Zwiesprache - Heinrich Klotz in memoriam

Rihm: Zwiesprache - Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht in memoriam

Rihm: Zwiesprache - Hermann Wiesler in memoriam

Kancheli - Piano piece No. 23

Marcello / J S Bach: Adagio BWV 974

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