ミラーズ～21世紀アメリカのピアノ三重奏曲集

古典的編成で最新アメリカ音楽を

2020年に結成10周年を迎えるライサンダー・ピアノ三重奏団による、First Hand Recordsレーベルのデビュー・アルバム。ピアノ・トリオという古典的な編成でありながら、今世紀に書かれた真新しいアメリカの作品を集めた刺激的な作品集。注目すべきは、グラミー賞受賞作曲家ジェニファー・ヒグドンが作曲した『甘き愛』。ソプラノのサラ・シェーファーが参加し音楽に花を添えます。
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The Lysander Piano Trio rightly stresses the diversity of this survey of the 21st century American piano trio, with styles and influences coming from rock (in Gilad Cohens Around the Cauldron), extended technique (in Jennifer Higdons voice-and-trio song cycle Love Sweet), and minimalism (in Jakub Ciupinskis The Black Mirror). The group effectively shifts gears among a variety of sounds, which is often the key to a successful program of contemporary music. However, for all the diversity, theres an interesting unity among these works, one that is underappreciated as a pervasive factor since the fall of modernism: the pieces all refer to extramusical scenes and images. Cohens Around the Cauldron, as one might expect, depicts the Witches of Shakespeares Macbeth in a series of delightful short scenes, including one from the perspective of the unfortunate newts (and there is another little Shakespeare scene, Titania and Her Suite, from Sofia Belimova). Reinaldo Moyas four Ghostwritten Variations each address a different novel, from Thomas Mann to science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson, and William David Coopers An den Wasser zu Babel is something of a German Expressionist set of variations on a theme representing the psalm By the Rivers of Babylon. An X factor in the albums favor is that all of the music was either commissioned by the Lysander Piano Trio or premiered by one or more of its members. The music was recorded in two different places that do not play very well together, but in general, this is an enjoyable and stimulating release that finds new life in a traditional chamber music genre.