Folk Trails
Folk-music has been a resource for classical composers since the beginning of the western tradition. The violin has its own folk heritage, of course, but since you can’t lug a piano from village to village, composers for that instrument have had to dig into their own musical roots to generate a folk-based keyboard repertoire, usually with refreshing results. This recital takes the listener on a journey that spans three continents, east to west, marrying the resources of the modern concert grand with the immediacy of the folk originals.
Anya Alexeyev, piano, primo
Leslie De’Ath, secondo
Béla Bartók
15 Hungarian Peasant Songs, Sz. 71 (13:57)
- No. 1, Rubato (1:09)
- No. 2, Andante (1:48)
- No. 3, Poco rubato – Sostenuto (0:35)
- No. 4, Andante (0:34)
- No. 5, Scherzo. Andante (0:51)
- No. 6, Ballad (Theme and Variations) (2:52)
- No. 7, Allegro (0:44)
- No. 8, Allegretto (0:31)
- No. 9, Allegretto (0:18)
- No. 10, L’istesso tempo (0:34)
- No. 11, Assai moderato (0:56)
- No. 12, Allegretto (0:34)
- No. 13, Poco più vivo (0:32)
- No. 14, Allegro (0:32)
- No. 15, Allegro (1:28)
Leonid Desyatnikov
Songs of Bukovina: 24 Preludes for Piano
- No. 1, Steppe wind a-blowin’ (2:52)
- No. 3, Ian, where d’you come from? Beyond the Danube (1:31)
- No. 4, Oh, Petrivochka, a night so short (1:49)
- No. 7, Oh, I’ll go to the garden (1:12)
- No. 8, Oh, my sweet vast Canada (1:05)
- No. 24, A pipe made of maplewood (1:28)
Charles Villiers Stanford (arr. Percy Grainger)
Four Irish Dances, Op. 89
- No. 3, The Leprechaun’s Dance (3:05)
Georgs Pelēcis
- Fantasy on Latvian Folksongs (8:45)
Đặng Hữu Phúc
Bunches of Flowers of Vietnam
- No. 1, Spring (2:08)
Jean Sibelius
Six Finnish Folksongs
- No. 1, Minun kultani (’My beloved’) (1:28)
- No. 2, Sydamestani rakastan (’I love you with all my heart’) (1:25)
- No. 3, Ilta tulee, ehto joutuu (’Evening is coming’) (1:12)
- No. 4, Tuopa tytto, kaunis tytto (’That girl, beautiful girl’) (1:24)
Wang Jianzhong
Four Folksongs of Northern Shaanxi
- No. 1, Red Lilies Crimson and Bright (5:05)
Marko Tajčević
Seven Baltic Dances
- No. 4, Sostenuto e cantabile (2:53)
- No. 7, Allegro quasi pesante (1:05)
Komitas (arr. Georgy Saradjev)
- Qeler Tsoler (‘Walking, shining’) (4:09)
Connor Chee
The Navajo Piano
- Navajo Vocable No. 9 (3:01)
Eleanor Alberga
- Jamaican Medley (5:01)
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