SEABOURNE Steps: An Anthology for Piano. 16 Scenes Before a Crcufixion
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Composer or Director: Peter Seabourne
Genre:
Instrumental
Label: Sheva
Magazine Review Date: 04/2017
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 85
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: SH168
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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Greeting! |
Peter Seabourne, Composer
Peter Seabourne, Composer |
Still |
Peter Seabourne, Composer
Minjeong Shin, Piano Peter Seabourne, Composer |
The Little White Girl |
Peter Seabourne, Composer
Minjeong Shin, Piano Peter Seabourne, Composer |
El Suspiro del Moro |
Peter Seabourne, Composer
Minjeong Shin, Piano Peter Seabourne, Composer |
Split The Lark... |
Peter Seabourne, Composer
Peter Seabourne, Composer |
Suspended Journeys |
Peter Seabourne, Composer
Minjeong Shin, Piano Peter Seabourne, Composer |
Little Scene |
Peter Seabourne, Composer
Minjeong Shin, Piano Peter Seabourne, Composer |
Over the Ocean |
Peter Seabourne, Composer
Peter Seabourne, Composer |
Awake! |
Peter Seabourne, Composer
Minjeong Shin, Piano Peter Seabourne, Composer |
The Sun - just touched the Morning! |
Peter Seabourne, Composer
Minjeong Shin, Piano Peter Seabourne, Composer |
In Winter |
Peter Seabourne, Composer
Peter Seabourne, Composer |
Trois Petits Adieux |
Peter Seabourne, Composer
Minjeong Shin, Piano Peter Seabourne, Composer |
Composer or Director: Peter Seabourne
Genre:
Instrumental
Label: Sheva
Magazine Review Date: 04/2017
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 53
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: SH136
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
16 Scenes Before a Crucifixion |
Peter Seabourne, Composer
Alessandro Viale, Piano Peter Seabourne, Composer |
Author: Richard Whitehouse
The fifth volume, Sixteen Scenes Before a Crucifixion (2014), is less a collection than a linear meditation on the Passiontide canvases by Caravaggio, as translated into music Seabourne has described as ‘overwhelmingly pessimistic and bleak’. This is already evident in ‘I’, akin to a processional in its sombrely tolling chords and halting rhythmic tread that emerges into the foreground then returns into the distance. ‘IV’ affords brief affirmation with its ecstatic trills and arabesques, and ‘VIII’ summons a melody from its texture to moving effect offset by the agitated manner overall. ‘XII’ is the most complex in meshing antagonistic elements towards a brutal climax, while ‘XVI’ brings a starkly fatalistic ending as betrayal effects crucifixion.
Both these performers are notably attuned to Seabourne’s music. The poise and dexterity of Minjeong Shin are notably well served by what is undoubtedly the finest recording on any of these discs, while Alessandro Viale sounds hardly less inside the fraught sound world of his sequence. Informative booklet-notes from the composer. Those who have been collecting this series need not hesitate – though newcomers should certainly begin with Vol 1.
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