Joel Feigin: Piano and Chamber Music, Volume One
Over the past century or so, composers have tended to see themselves as either traditionalists or modernists. The music of Joel Feigin (born in New York in 1951) bridges both worlds, combining the resources of tonality and atonality with equal relish, naturally extending the styles of the recent past. Its freewheeling energy is often tempered by an elegant restraint, sometimes revealing the warm, humanist impulse behind his sound-world. This first volume of his piano and chamber music follows a lusty piano trio and a moving tribute to a much-missed teacher with four sets of variations, three by Feigin and one an arrangement of Bach, the composer who Feigin says is the root of all his music.
Claudia Schaer, violin
Robert LaRue, cello
Marc Peloquin, piano
Mikhail Dubov, piano
Mon Khaba, piano
Listen To This Recording:
Mountain and Rivers Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano (1990)* (16:16)
- I. Sostenuto e misterioso – (2:02)
- II. Allegretto grazioso – (4:35)
- III. Adagio (4:48)
- IV. Vivace (5:22)
Elegy in memoriam Renée Longy for Piano (1979, rev. 1986) (12:52)
- Adagio molto rubato – (5:24)
- Grave, quasi recitative (7:28)
- Variations on Empty Space for Piano (2008) (12:12)
- Veränderungen for Violin and Piano (1994) (12:25)
Variations on a Theme of Arnold Schoenberg (1995)* (13:56)
- Theme. Sehr langsam – (0:54)
- Var. 1 (0:47)
- Var. 2, Allegro – (0:33)
- Var. 3, Andante (1:13)
- Var. 4, Allegro – (0:24)
- Var. 5, L’istesso tempo – (0:23)
- Var. 6, Presto – (0:27)
- Var. 7, Drammatico, quasi recitative (0:47)
- Var. 8, Adagio (Tempo primo) (0:55)
- Var. 9, L’istesso tempo – (2:35)
- Vivace – (3:23)
- Sehr langsam (Tempo primo) (1:35)
- Fourteen Canonic Variations after J.S. Bach BWV1087 for Two Pianos (1995)* (6:14)
*First Recordings
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