Cat No:
CC72963
Release Date: 20 October 2023
Label: Challenge Classics
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 0608917296327
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
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Description
A birthday homage to one of today's leading composers, Lera Auerbach, this disc is focused on two Piano Trios in world premiere recordings, including the monumental Third Piano Trio which is dedicated to the Delta Trio.
If you mix every colour of paint together, you end up with black. Similarly, the darkness in the music of Lera Auberbach (b. 1973) consists of every imaginable shade of colour, from pitch darkness to dazzling light. The composer thus captures the mercuriality of life and the human psyche. Her music sometimes also depicts a dance with the inescapable: the struggle against Fate, the inexorable passing of time, an unattainable dream - but always with black humour and a dark though starlit sky.
'Many composers create something "beautiful", outside human reality,' according to the Delta Piano Trio, who worked hard with Auberbach in preparing for this album. 'Instead, Lera's music is raw as well as human. She never eases up on what she wants to express, which would rob the music of all its fervour.'
It was Auerbach's own idea to call this album Milking Darkness. The Delta Piano Trio feels that it is a fitting description not only of her work as a whole but also of the intense effect her music can have.
"With its superb sound and perceptive notes, the present release can be warmly recommended" - Gramophone magazine on 'Origin' (CC72901)
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Tracklisting
- 1. Lonely Suite - Ballet for a Lonely Violinist, Op 70
- 7. Piano Trio No. 4
- 8. Milking Darkness
- 9. Three Dances in the Old Style, Op. 54
- 12. Piano Trio No. 3
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