Resistance: Conflict, Complexity, Conversations
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Label: Etcetera
Cat No: KTC1801
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 2nd February 2024
Contents
Artists
Natania Hoffman (cello)Monika Dars (piano)
Works
ZapyskisMiniatures (4)
Cello Sonata in D minor, op.40
Grand Duet for cello and piano
Artists
Natania Hoffman (cello)Monika Dars (piano)
About
Engaging with conflict in all its complexity, the album grapples with the question at the core of modern discourse about art: should the art of an invading country be banned to send an unequivocal message, or can art speak for its own sake and tell a story rich with its own meaning? And could the suppression of art based on nation of origin endanger freedom of thought, just as populism and extreme nationalism endanger democracy and human rights?
On a musical level, each piece includes jarring, violent, and confrontational passages contrasted moments of timeless beauty, vulnerability, and even inner peace. Conflict and ambiguity are woven into the texture of the album; famously, Galina Ustvolskaya refused a marriage proposal by Dmitri Shostakovich, calling their relationship "one of the worst things that ever happened to me." This album places their beautiful, albeit strikingly different cello-piano music side by side. A satiric song by Mordechai Gebirtig, the most prominent musical voice of the Kraków ghetto, interrupts Joel Hoffman's Zapykis, a work named after an idyllic Lithuanian village where Hoffman's Jewish ancestors once lived.
This album aims to channel the idea that resistance can be used as the entryway into something deep, instigating discussion and marking the interesting, the unexplored, the revelatory through a cathartic programme marked by moments of both desperate struggle and ineffable beauty.
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