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Composer or Director: Kian Soltani, Robert Schumann, Franz Schubert, Reza Vali
Genre:
Chamber
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Magazine Review Date: 04/2018
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 79
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: 479 8100GH
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Sonata for Arpeggione and Piano |
Franz Schubert, Composer
Aaron Pilsan, Piano Franz Schubert, Composer Kian Soltani, Composer |
Nacht und Träume |
Franz Schubert, Composer
Aaron Pilsan, Piano Franz Schubert, Composer Kian Soltani, Composer |
(3) Fantasiestücke |
Robert Schumann, Composer
Aaron Pilsan, Piano Kian Soltani, Composer Robert Schumann, Composer |
Adagio and Allegro |
Robert Schumann, Composer
Aaron Pilsan, Piano Kian Soltani, Composer Robert Schumann, Composer |
Myrthen, Movement: No. 24, Du bist wie eine Blume (wds. Heine) |
Robert Schumann, Composer
Aaron Pilsan, Piano Kian Soltani, Composer Robert Schumann, Composer |
Persian Fire Dance |
Kian Soltani, Composer
Aaron Pilsan, Piano Kian Soltani, Composer |
Persian Folk Songs |
Reza Vali, Composer
Aaron Pilsan, Piano Kian Soltani, Composer Reza Vali, Composer |
Author: Rob Cowan
The programme is especially well chosen. Schumann is represented by two works, the Op 73 Fantasiestücke and the Op 70 Adagio and Allegro in A flat, music that illustrates not only the ‘Florestan’ and ‘Eusebius’ aspects of the composer’s own muse but parallel qualities in this particular musical partnership, languid lyricism and fiery attack. Both composers are additionally represented by beautiful – and superbly played – song transcriptions, Schubert by ‘Nacht und Träume’, Schumann by ‘Du bist wie eine Blume’.
And then there’s the Persian element, Reza Vali’s seven Persian Folk Songs (‘Set No 16 C’ as we’re told), love songs by ‘the Bartók of Iran’, as Soltani thinks of him, though I was put more in mind of Janáček, certainly in the first piece, ‘Longing’. The third piece ends with a Tristan quote and the programme as a whole concludes with Soltani’s own unaccompanied Persian Fire Dance, which would do nicely in recital as a follow-on from Kodály’s Solo Sonata, very much the same worlds and a work that with any luck Kian Soltani will offer us before too long. A beautiful programme, superbly recorded.
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