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Bells Across Europe (CD)
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Bells Across Europe (CD)

Artist: 
Konstantin Shamray

Product Code: 0820200438317

$19.99

ABC Classic is proud to release Bells Across Europe, a major new recording from acclaimed Australian pianist Konstantin Shamray, one of the nation’s most celebrated virtuosos and musical thinkers. More than a recital album, Bells Across Europe draws on over a decade of artistic exploration and doctoral research, tracing the rich symbolism and sonority of bells across the European piano tradition and revealing unexpected connections between composers, cultures and centuries. It invites the listener into a gallery of contrasting musical scenes: celebration in Liszt’s radiant "Sposalizio", monastic contemplation in Borodin’s In the Monastery, spiritual awe in Messiaen’s "Cloches d’angoisse et larmes d’adieu", and mystical transcendence in Scriabin’s visionary "Seventh Sonata", the album’s culmination.

Tracklist

ALEXANDER BORODIN 1833–1887
1 In the Monastery – Petite Suite (Little Suite), No. 1
FRANZ LISZT 1811–1886
2 Sposalizio (Wedding) – Années de pèlerinage (Years of Pilgrimage), Second Year, Italy, S.161, No. 1
3 Carillon – Weihnachtsbaum (Christmas Tree), S.186, No. 6
CLAUDE DEBUSSY 1862–1918
4 Cloches à travers les feuilles (Bells through the Leaves) – Images, Book 2, No. 1
OLIVIER MESSIAEN 1908–1992
5 Cloches d'angoisse et larmes d'adieu (Bells of Anguish and Tears of Farewell) – Préludes, No. 6
GEORGE ENESCU 1881–1955
Piano Suite No. 3, Op. 18
6 VI. Choral
7 VII. Carillon Nocturne
SERGEI RACHMANINOFF 1873–1943
Études-tableaux, Op. 33
8 No. 7 in E-flat major
9 No. 9 in C-sharp minor
MELODY EÖTVÖS b.1984
10 Kapel
FRANZ LISZT
11 Ave Maria (The Bells of Rome), S. 182
ALEXANDER SCRIABIN 1872–1915
12 Piano Sonata No. 7, Op. 64 'White Mass'