Thomas Adčs - Piano
On this CD:
1. Come io passo l'estate (How I Spend the Summer), suite for piano
Composed by Niccolo Castiglioni
2. Slĺtter (Norwegian Peasant Dances) (17) for piano, Op. 72 No. 14, Tussebruruferda pĺ Vossevangen (The Goblins' Bridal Procession at Vossevangen)
Composed by Edvard Grieg
3. Slĺtter (Norwegian Peasant Dances) (17) for piano, Op. 72 No. 15, Skuldalsbrura (The Skuldal Bride)
Composed by Edvard Grieg
4. Slĺtter (Norwegian Peasant Dances) (17) for piano, Op. 72 No. 10, Knut Lurĺsens halling 1
Composed by Edvard Grieg
5. Canon a 4 voci, for piano
Composed by Alexey Vladimirovich Stanchinsky
6. Játékok (Games), for piano Les Adieux in Janáceks Manier (Farewells in the Style of Janácek)
Composed by Gyorgy Kurtag
7. Játékok (Games), for piano A megvadult lenhajó láng (The Mad Girl with the Flaxen Hair)
Composed by Gyorgy Kurtag
8. Játékok (Games), for piano Keringo
Composed by Gyorgy Kurtag
9. Játékok (Games), for piano Hommage ŕ Nancy Sinatra (Homage to Nancy Sinatra)
Composed by Gyorgy Kurtag
10. Játékok (Games), for piano Hommage ŕ Csajkovszkij (Homage to Tchaikovsky)
Composed by Gyorgy Kurtag
11. Sonata for piano, No 2
Composed by Alexey Vladimirovich Stanchinsky
12. Cekám te! (Waiting for you), for harmonium or piano (Intimate Sketches No. 8), JW 8/33/13
Composed by Leos Janacek
13. Játékok (Games), for piano Tränen (Tears)
Composed by Gyorgy Kurtag
14. Játékok (Games), for piano Egy igaz ember emlékére (In Memory of a Just Person)
Composed by Gyorgy Kurtag
15. Játékok (Games), for piano Preludium
Composed by Gyorgy Kurtag
16. Játékok (Games), for piano Korál
Composed by Gyorgy Kurtag
17. Sonatina for piano No.3 ("ad usum infantis"), K. 268
Composed by Ferruccio Busoni
18. Souvenir d'une marche Boche, for piano
Composed by Igor Stravinsky
19. Valse pour les enfants, for piano
Composed by Igor Stravinsky
20. Piano-Rag-Music, for piano
Composed by Igor Stravinsky
21. Canons (3) for Ursula, for piano
Composed by Conlon Nancarrow
Editorial Reviews A lot of the fun here is in allowing yourself to discover some of the gems you'll very likely never have heard before: the personality-drenched, enigmatic, Paul Klee-like "games" of Kurtág (one of Adès's early mentors) and--most of all--Alexey Stanchinsky's completely enthralling Piano Sonata No. 2, which also happens to be the longest work here, though the varying senses of time each piece unravels become positively Einsteinian as the program progresses. Adès is like a kid in a candy shop, sharing his enthusiasm with each discovery--it's the perfect merger of personalities between performer and composer. He doesn't play pyrotechnical showoff, even in the head-spinning dual-tempo feats of the Nancarrow canons concluding the disc. Rather, he seems more interested in inviting his audience to participate in each given world. Technique with insouciant energy and boundless humor--the entire recital is a blast. --Thomas May
Amazon.com
To some, he's the dazzling prince-elect of the new-music scene; to others, he's the spoiled brat decked out in an entire wardrobe of the emperor's new clothes--and each side seems to preach to the converted. Well, whatever your take on the music of young British composer Thomas Adès, who has already written full-scale works in a stunning array of genres--from the sensitive cycle Five Eliot Landscapes to the opéra du scandale Powder Her Face and the symphony Asyla--give yourself an unprejudiced listen to Adès as performer on the recital album Piano and you'll discover yet another dimension to the musical world inhabited by the young upstart--one that holds manifold surprising delights. The most obvious is, of course, the choice of program--and kudos to EMI for backing the bold choices Adès has made--which flies against the current trend toward cozy familiarity or, at best, a mixture of chestnuts with scary unknowns. Not that this is "scary" modern music; instead, it's a gracious, beguiling manifesto for the art of the piano miniature, in modernist, postmodernist, neoclassical, even late-romantic guises. Even the familiar composers are represented by obscure works: some peasant dances of Grieg, some motley pages of little-known Stravinsky, a sonatina of Busoni.
Thomas Adčs - Piano, Music, Leos Janacek, Igor Stravinsky, Ferruccio Busoni, Gyorgy Kurtag, Niccolo Castiglioni, Alexey Vladimirovich Stanchinsky, Edvard Grieg, Conlon Nancarrow, Thomas Adčs, 20th/21st Century Sonata/Sonatina for Keyboard, Canon for Keyboard, Chamber Music & Recitals, Character/Single-Movement/Miscellaneous Work for Keyboard, Classical, Classical Artists, Classical Music, Collection of Dance-Based Music for Keyboard, Keyboard, March for Keyboard, Music for Keyboard, Rag for Keyboard
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