Exile

Opis

ExileOpis:Product Description This programme brings together composers who, for the most part, were compelled to flee their homeland. In 1920, Ivan Wyschnegradsky took refuge in Paris, where he wrote for a quarter-tone piano at a time when, in Russia, the slightest dissonance was considered a political provocation. Andrzej Panufnik left his native Poland in 1954. Alfred Schnittke settled in Hamburg in 1990, eight years before his death, having spent most of his life in the Soviet Union. Although Schubert never moved away from Vienna, the pain and solitude of his inner exile are palpable in his music. Finally, the Belgian violin virtuoso Eugène Ysaÿe emigrated on account of the First World War and it was in the United States, in 1917, that he wrote the melancholy musical poem recorded here, which he called Exil! Is exile nothing but pain and isolation, or also a source of inspiration which, with music, expresses what words cannot say, acting as the ultimate refuge? ‘Let's listen to what they have to say’, suggests Patricia Kopatchinskaja, herself ‘uprooted for ever’. She is joined by cellist Thomas Kaufmann and her friends from Camerata Bern. Review Within the past five years or so, the wild and gutsy violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja has become ubiquitous. A new album it seems every other month. Regular stints around the world as artist in residence — appointments that can be dangerous, because there’s much less chance of a higher authority responding to her flakier, more self-indulgent projects with a firm “No”. The good news is that her latest album, by her standards, finds her on relatively solid ground, working with the cellist Thomas Kaufmann and the Camerata Bern on a programme of worthwhile music on the resonant and capacious theme of exile. Kaufmann (Camerata Bern’s chief cellist) gets his best showcase in an orchestral transcription of Alfred Schnittke’s Cello Sonata No 1, climaxed by a sorrowful and eerie slow movement, hard to forget. But it’s PatKop who is everywhere, whether she is leading the Camerata strings, chomping through engaging folk music from Russia, Ukraine and her native Moldova, guiding us through the “existential loneliness” of Schubert in a pensive minuet, or showcasing the melodic strengths of the Polish exile Andrzej Panufnik’s 1971 Violin Concerto. The motley but persuasive bill of fare also includes a querulous microtonal string quartet (Ivan Wyschnegradsky) and an agonised cry from the heart from the exiled Belgian Eugène Ysaÿe. But whatever the repertoire, the playing remains passionately expressive, while the recording is so clear and vital that PatKop and her friends seem to be in the room with you. So take care, and enjoy. Geoff Brown, The Times - 4****Autor:Patricia Kopatchinskaja; Thomas Kaufmann; Camerata BernNośnik:audioCDPłyt:Język: German: Original LanguageData wydania: 2025-01-24Waga: 0.18 gramWysokość: 0.3 cmSzerokość: 5 cmDługość: 5.6 cmJanuary Release from Alpha ClassicsUWAGA: Kupując produkt na tej aukcji zgadzasz się na wydłużony termin realizacji wysyłki (10-14 dni roboczych). Podany towar pochodzi z zagranicznego magazynu, stąd wydłużony czas realizacji który podany jest obok.