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The Balkan Piano, Volume One
The composing traditions of the ten Balkan countries are as good as unknown in the rest of the world. In this revelatory piano recital, the Albanian pianist Amir Xhakoviq presents a glittering array of keyboard jewels from his own country and its neighbours, ranging from wild and energetic toccatas to timeless evocations of bells and other ancient traditions, with a surprisingly wide range of references, from folk-music to Scarlatti and jazz. As ‘Volume One’ indicates, this album is intended as the first of a series that will continue to explore the unfamiliar music of the Balkans.
Amir Xhakoviq, piano
Andrzej Panufnik: Composing Myself
Preface by Simon Callow
Extent: 478 pages
20 colour & 80 b/w illustrations
Hardback
Matthew Taylor: String Quartets Nos. 5, 6 and 7
Matthew Taylor's sense of musical architecture — extending the symphonic tradition of Sibelius and Nielsen into the modern age — can be felt in his chamber music no less than in his orchestral output. Though his String Quartets Nos. 5, 6 and 7 were written in close succession, they are fundamentally different in design and feeling. Quartet No. 5 adopts a pacifying process as a volatile Allegro unfolds into a spacious fugue before easing into a delicate lullaby. The core of the Sixth Quartet is a Romanza which Taylor wrote for his wife on their wedding. And the Classical clarity of the Seventh Quartet pays tribute to Haydn and Mendelssohn, two composers whom Taylor much admires.
Dante String Quartet, string quartet
Allegri String Quartet, string quartet
Salieri String Quartet, string quartet
Linda Kouvaras: Piano Music, Chamber Works and Songs, Vol. 2
As with many other Australian composers, the music of Linda Kouvaras (b. 1960) has a strong sense of space, expressed in lyrical, elegiac melodic lines that soar over freewheeling piano textures. The two substantial works on this second Toccata Classics album of her music demonstrate her concern that her compositions engage with the outside world: the epic Herring Island Piano Sonata adds narrator and recorded sound – not least of local birds – to the piano to bring alive the Indigenous history of a small hidden paradise in downtown Melbourne, and the poems set in Winter Came Early reveal a mother and daughter coming to terms with a fatal diagnosis of cancer
Coady Green, piano
Georgina Lewis, piano
Jane Magão, soprano
Karen Van Spall, mezzo-soprano
Tiriki Onus, narrator
Roger Alsop, sound design
Toccata e due CD: Rediscovering Early Martinů – Part I
In April 2013, Toccata Classics released a recording entitled Bohuslav Martinů – Early Orchestral Works, Volume 1, launching what is hoped will be a series…
Rebels without a cause?
Is there really music after midnight? At Classical:NEXT in Rotterdam at the end of May I attended a panel discussion entitled ‘Music after Midnight’. I…
Launching the Pergament Permanent
I remember my first encounter with the music of Moses Pergament distinctly. In my youth I was a frequent visitor to the City Library in…
Mixing the Classical and the Popular
The urge to compose music arose after I joined a rock group in my teenage years. Although I was later classically trained, I continued to…
Recording my Tone Poems in Liepāja
The first thing I noticed was the trees. Once we were out of Riga airport, they soon crowded up to the edge of the road;…