Vadim Gluzman - Time...and again
Intelligent playing of likeable repertoire – to be taken a piece at a time rather than swallowed whole
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Composer or Director: Alfred Schnittke, Arvo Pärt, Giya Alexandrovich Kancheli, Peteris Vasks
Genre:
Chamber
Label: BIS
Magazine Review Date: 10/2004
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 79
Mastering:
Stereo
DDD
Catalogue Number: BISCD1392
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Suite in the Old Style |
Alfred Schnittke, Composer
Alfred Schnittke, Composer Angela Yoffe, Piano Vadim Gluzman, Violin |
Fuga |
Alfred Schnittke, Composer
Alfred Schnittke, Composer Vadim Gluzman, Violin |
Fratres |
Arvo Pärt, Composer
Angela Yoffe, Piano Arvo Pärt, Composer Vadim Gluzman, Violin |
Spiegel im Spiegel |
Arvo Pärt, Composer
Angela Yoffe, Piano Arvo Pärt, Composer Vadim Gluzman, Violin |
Time... and again |
Giya Alexandrovich Kancheli, Composer
Angela Yoffe, Piano Giya Alexandrovich Kancheli, Composer Vadim Gluzman, Violin |
Little Summer Music |
Peteris Vasks, Composer
Angela Yoffe, Piano Peteris Vasks, Composer Vadim Gluzman, Violin |
Author: Rob Cowan
Peteris Vasks’s folksy, freewheeling (partly aleatoric) Little Summer Music is, like the Schnittke Suite, a pleasure to listen to, music full of colour and variety. Arvo Pärt’s Fratres comes bounding in on spindly arpeggios, its quieter music unaffectedly played much like the simpler, tender but equally aerated Spiegel im Spiegel.
Thereafter I would have preferred the grittier tones of a Shostakovich, Prokofiev or Bartók sonata for darkening contrast. Instead, Kancheli’s Time…and again (1996) inhabits a musical territory somewhere within earshot of Pärt, and its half-hour of oscillations between tortured fortissimi and sugared pianissimi begins to wear thin before very long. Had it not been for the fact that various other Kancheli works of the period sound similar I would probably have enjoyed it more. Good playing, though, and excellent sound.
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