Simone Dinnerstein: Undersong | Orange Mountain Music OMM0156

Simone Dinnerstein: Undersong

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Label: Orange Mountain Music

Cat No: OMM0156

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 11th March 2022

Contents

Works

Couperin, Francois

Pieces de clavecin III
» Ordre 18 in F minor: Le Tic-toc-choc, ou Les Maillotins
Pieces de clavecin II
» Ordre 6 in B flat major: Les Barricades mysterieuses

Glass, Philip

Mad Rush

Satie, Erik

Gnossiennes (6)
» no.3 Lent

Schumann, Robert

Arabeske in C major, op.18
Kreisleriana, op.16

Artists

Simone Dinnerstein (piano)

Works

Couperin, Francois

Pieces de clavecin III
» Ordre 18 in F minor: Le Tic-toc-choc, ou Les Maillotins
Pieces de clavecin II
» Ordre 6 in B flat major: Les Barricades mysterieuses

Glass, Philip

Mad Rush

Satie, Erik

Gnossiennes (6)
» no.3 Lent

Schumann, Robert

Arabeske in C major, op.18
Kreisleriana, op.16

Artists

Simone Dinnerstein (piano)

About

Orange Mountain Music is proud to present the new album UNDERSONG by Grammy-nominated pianist Simone Dinnerstein. The third of a trilogy of albums recorded since the pandemic began, Dinnerstein delves deeper into what it means to be alive during this time and the role of the artist.

"Undersong is the third album I recorded during the pandemic. It seems odd to write that, since I did not feel creative or energetic for much of it. Looking back, though, this has been a period of exploration and transformation. All of the music on this album consists of musical forms that have a refrain. Glass, Schumann, Couperin and Satie constantly revisit the same material in these pieces, worrying at it, shifting it to different harmonies and into different rhythmic shapes. Working with this music in the fall of 2020 was a constant reminder that in my afternoon walk in Greenwood Cemetery, I was quite literally treading a familiar path every day, a path that nonetheless had changed almost imperceptibly every time I left the house.

"
Undersong is an archaic term for a song with a refrain, and to me it also suggests a hidden text. Glass, Schumann, Couperin and Satie all seem to be attempting to find what they want to say through repetition, as though their constant change and recycling will focus the ear and the mind. This is music to get lost in. In The Undersong, Emerson wrote about what the word meant to him. He makes me think of how constrained we are by time, dimly conscious of forces around us that have vastly longer, slower beats. 'To the open air it sings Sweet the genesis of things, Of tendency through endless ages, Of star-dust, and star-pilgrimages, Of rounded worlds, of space and time, Of the old flood’s subsiding slime, Of chemic matter, force and form, Of poles and powers, cold, wet and warm The rushing metamorphosis Dissolving all that fixture is, Melts things that be to things that seem, And solid nature to a dream.' "
- Simone Dinnerstein

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