Anatol Vieru: Piano and Chamber Music
This item will be released on 2 May 2025.
The music of the Romanian composer Anatol Vieru (1926–98) is an arresting fusion of classical procedures, avant-garde modernism and folk roots; the influence of his Jewish heritage – he narrowly escaped a pogrom in the ghetto of his native Iaşi in 1944 – also underlies his musical impulses. These divergent influences fed into a musical language that is simultaneously familiar and intriguingly unconventional, with hypnotic, quasi-minimalist passages rubbing shoulders with bursts of wild, gypsy-like energy. It can likewise encompass both an epic sense of scale and chuckling good humour.
Daniela Braun, violin
Anna Carewe, cello
Irmela Roelcke, piano
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Piano Trio (1997) (28:36)
- I. Crochet ≈ 72 (7:34)
- II. Crochet = 84-88 (7:14)
- III. Crochet = 80 (7:12)
- IV. Minum = 64 (6:36)
- Versete for piano and violin, Op. 116 (1989) (17:58)
Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 140 (1994) (18:33)
- I. Crochet ≈ 48-50
- II. Dotted quaver = 120 (1:31)
- III. Crochet = 40 (7:58)
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