Konstantia Gourzi - Music for Piano and String Quartet
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Label: ECM New Series
Cat No: 4810988
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 27th October 2014
Contents
Works
Aiolos Wind: 6 piano pieces, op.41Eine kleine Geschichte, for piano solo, op.25
Klavierstucke I-V: 5 miniatures for piano solo, op.24
Noch furcht' ich: 7 miniatures for piano solo, op.8
P-ILION, neun fragmente einer ewigkeit
String Quartet no.1, op.19 'Israel'
Vibrato 1, op.38
Vibrato 2, op.38
Artists
Lorenda Ramou (piano)Ensemble Coriolis
Works
Aiolos Wind: 6 piano pieces, op.41Eine kleine Geschichte, for piano solo, op.25
Klavierstucke I-V: 5 miniatures for piano solo, op.24
Noch furcht' ich: 7 miniatures for piano solo, op.8
P-ILION, neun fragmente einer ewigkeit
String Quartet no.1, op.19 'Israel'
Vibrato 1, op.38
Vibrato 2, op.38
Artists
Lorenda Ramou (piano)Ensemble Coriolis
About
Athens-born but Munich-based composer Konstantia Gourzi makes her ECM New Series label debut with a recording of chamber music and music for solo piano.
“What historical voices commingle in the current idiom of a composer whose cultural roots lie in the birthplace of rhetoric, but who emigrated to take a musical apprenticeship in European constructivism?” asks Ingrid Allwardt in the liner notes. “What wordless airs, echoes of past ages, thread their way into the present day of her instrumental songs?” Gourzi’s album supplies the answers.
With the exception of the early piano piece 'noch fürcht’ ich', composed in 1993, all the music is of recent vintage. It includes a number of piano miniatures, pieces dedicated to Lachenmann, Kurtág, Raue, Abbado, Barenboim and Rexroth, two string quartets (‘Israel’ and ‘P-ILION, neun fragmente einer ewigkeit’), and ‘Vibrato 1’ and ‘Vibrato 2’ for string quartet and piano.
Greek pianist Lorenda Ramou and the Ensemble Coriolis deliver committed performances.
The album was recorded in Munich’s Himmelfahrtskirche in 2012, and produced by Manfred Eicher.
Ensemble Coriolis:
- Heather Cottrell, Susanna Pietsch (violin)
- Klaus-Peter Werani (viola)
- Hanno Simons (cello)
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