For his 2012 release on Avie, pianist Inon Barnatan explores the concept of light and darkness in music by performing fantastic works of Maurice Ravel, Thomas Adès, Claude Debussy, and Benjamin Britten. Without pointing out such obvious associations as the keyboard's high and low registers, or resorting to clichés of cheerful or gloomy pieces, Barnatan looks more deeply into the thinking behind Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit and La valse, Adès' Darknesse Visible, Debussy's Suite bergamasque, and Ronald Stevenson's adaptation of ...
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For his 2012 release on Avie, pianist Inon Barnatan explores the concept of light and darkness in music by performing fantastic works of Maurice Ravel, Thomas Adès, Claude Debussy, and Benjamin Britten. Without pointing out such obvious associations as the keyboard's high and low registers, or resorting to clichés of cheerful or gloomy pieces, Barnatan looks more deeply into the thinking behind Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit and La valse, Adès' Darknesse Visible, Debussy's Suite bergamasque, and Ronald Stevenson's adaptation of Britten's music for the Fantasy on Peter Grimes, all pieces that delve into the shadowy realms of expression. In terms of technique, Barnatan is a skilled musician with ample chops, so there's no question that the virtuosic aspects of these works appealed to him. But musical and literary sources that inspired these pieces underlie this program, including the haunting images conjured by the Gaspard poems of Aloysius Bertrand; the melancholy of John Dowland's song, In darknesse let me...
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Add this copy of Darknesse Visible to cart. $13.45, good condition, Sold by Stephen White Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Bradford, WEST YORKSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2012 by Avie.
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