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lyrical East,
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This review is from: Nostalghia: Piano Works by Valentin Silvestrov (Audio CD)
Jenny Lin is exceptional in the new piano repertoire she cultivates,with CDs as representations, from the early Russian,pre-post Bolshevik composers of questionable committments there,yet it was a music we would have never encountered. She also picks on the younger generation of composers from New York City, Elliott Sharp, his harder-edge motoric piano to Dublin,the music of Donnacha Dennehy, to her own native China,the talented orchestrator Guan Xin, and Ma Yo Dao; All are exceptional in the voices they discover in the piano's treacherous resonances.
Here now she picks on/up on the celebrated symphonist Valetin Silvestrov, a pianist himself, has written gorgeous music here, but not always facile, this is the language of simplicity discovered;Since the paradogm of culture is in stasis,the aesthetic in exile; the lyrical voice pretends it knows more, it always knwos more,and has relished in introspective, seclusion many times in romanticism, a welcome comfort zone to musical serious music;away from the tyrannies of modernity; this we find here quite obviously, as Silvestrov's miniature 'omaggios' the young Chopin writing in exile, or the secluded Robert Schumann; They all make appearances here someplace within the subjectivity of the composer. Much of the music herein is all quite recent, as the legend piece, "Nostalghia"(2001), a plaintive hopeful-like simple piece, a melody surrounded by silences. These spaces are to go unnoticed, for Silvestrov's music loves the relative freedom of space, there is much of it where he lives in his native Ukraine,although it's questioanble where they want to be, in the West or the East. His more advanced yet meadering "Elegy" is not in fact here. The revistations of genres as "Waltzes" are quite evocative, allowing the Left Hand regions to play against the arpeggiations of the treble timbres;It is less convincing in the "Schoenberg, Webern and Berg" revisitations, where subjectivity can become a fetish all to itself; It doesn't make for good music;a bad concept,although Michael Finnissy has the 'formula' for this superimpositions/Interventions of historical persona into the crevices of one's own creativity; Again Silvestrov likes his music not to be cluttered or layered, he speaks directly to you,unencumbered; yet you sense there is something within his subjectivity held in reserve, not allowing his gorgeous melodies to develop, but lots of spaces.Not till you get to the "Postludium" do we find an element of bleakness, as that in his impressive wall-like "Symphonies", 5 through 7;,all written prior to much of the music here. Restaint is a quality in this music, for it is four-square conceived and shaped by the predictabilities of tradition, the morphologies strictly reside within the self,the Being,of what is disclosed; the undisclosed Being however is hidden, can be in simplicity as much of the content of the East has revealed to us, as Paart, Gorecki, Ustvolskaya at various powerful levels of cognition. When Jenny Lin does get to the big piece, the 'First Sonata', we sense we are in the same place, as the more modest musical creations, This is one of three relatively short Sonata forms,this first one shaped in two movements,and you find more the orchestral voice of Silvestrov,with intropsection, what he reserves for all this piano solo music;But the place he belongs is not here, rather it is amongst the larger forces and greater resonances; The thoughful loving "Messanger" (1996) was didicated to his wife who passed quite unexpectedly;
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This review is from: Nostalghia: Piano Works by Valentin Silvestrov (Audio CD)
Until a couple of weeks ago I never heard of composer Valentin Silvestrov. So Jenny Lin's recording of some of his pieces turned out to be a delightful surprise. The other reviews of this CD are very accurate; so I cannot offer any additional insights. I would just like to say that this recording is one of the most enjoyable I've encountered in some time. I highly recommend it to anyone who likes piano music in the reflective, lyrical vein.
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