The Naxos label has made a good move in devoting several series of CDs to contemporary national schools, presenting compositions largely unknown outside their home countries. This release, apparently supported by Azerbaijan's Ministry of Culture and Tourism, presents five works for piano and orchestra, most of them influenced by folk idioms in a manner that seems to have changed little following Azerbaijan's re-emergence as an independent country in the 1990s. But the wrinkle here is that the native tradition fused with ...
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The Naxos label has made a good move in devoting several series of CDs to contemporary national schools, presenting compositions largely unknown outside their home countries. This release, apparently supported by Azerbaijan's Ministry of Culture and Tourism, presents five works for piano and orchestra, most of them influenced by folk idioms in a manner that seems to have changed little following Azerbaijan's re-emergence as an independent country in the 1990s. But the wrinkle here is that the native tradition fused with Western forms itself has several levels: folk melodies, a cultivated idiom akin to Persian and Arab classical styles, and Turkic and Persian cultural influences as well. The most ambitious piece is the first one, unusual in that it is a cooperative composition by Fikret Amirov and Elmira Nazirova, the latter an associate of Shostakovich. It adds Arab melodies to the mix, and it's notable for its serious slow movement, which seems to have some of Shostakovich's gloom. The booklet...
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Add this copy of Azerbaijani Piano Concertos to cart. $15.94, new condition, Sold by Redux Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Wyoming, MI, UNITED STATES, published 2011 by Naxos.
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