Customer Reviews for Portraits & Elegies

Portraits & Elegies

Model: 14993282

SKU: 18505683

UPC: 726708676322

Portraits & Elegies

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Simply beautiful

Customer Rating

5.0

Posted by: dbrierly

from Studio City, CA

on 05/10/2010

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5.0

Music

5.0

Cover Art/Extras

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Violinist Frank Almond and pianist Brian Zeger team up on this new release from Innova to perform a range of chamber music by four contemporary composers. The pieces vary widely in character and style, but all embody the adage that less is more. Philip Lasser’s “Vocalise” and “Berceuse Fantasque” are spare, emotionally haunting works of considerable subtlety and depth. Lasser’s melodies are stunningly beautiful, and the counterpoint between violin and piano is nothing short of breathtaking. The selections from Ned Rorem’s “Day Music” and “Night Music” segue from elegiac tone poems to sprightly, dance-like exercises in rhythm; all are effortlessly beguiling. Peter Lieberson’s “Elegy” strikes a lugubrious tone from start to finish, yet harbors unexpected shards of lightness among the gloom. Russell Platt’s “Adagio, Amoroso” and “Lamentoso” are pure expressions of beauty and longing. Almond and Zeger make for a great team—their playing is completely in sync in terms of form, content and expression. An interesting side note to this recording is that Almond plays the “Lipinski” Stradivarius, which dates from 1715. Needless to say, it sounds out of this world, with a warmth and timber from another age.

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