Release Date: 27 August 2012
Label: Challenge Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 608917256222
Description
Hungarian pianist Martin Tchiba is well known for his eclectic approach to the music that he performs and this CD certainly reflects this. The selection of pieces featured on 'Linkages' has been chosen to represent a musical and emotional journey from the romantic period, represented by Liszt and Brahms, via the exotic sounds of Scriabin and the atonal and serial developments of Schoenberg, through to the modernism of German composer Helmut Lachenmann.
Martin Tchiba was born in Budapest in 1982 and grew up in Germany. Although his repertoire contains works from all epochs, with the music from the Romantic to the present occupying a special position, he is particularly known for tracking down forgotten masterpieces, and giving first performances of new works, several of which have been dedicated to him. Martin Tchiba has made a number of highly regarded recordings over the last few years including CDs for Naxos and Hungaroton.
Although the works on this new disc are very different, and the programme contains pieces written over a period of 102 years (1861 to 1963), the music itself is unified by a wealth of unexpected relationships and subtle interconnections. The sequence of the works and the transitions between them are chosen intentionally, representing a journey from Romanticism to Modernism paved with moments of restlessness and of tranquillity.
Personnel: Martin Tchiba (piano)
Tracklisting
Narratio Quartet
Piano Duo Scholtes & Janssens
Matteo Cicchitti, Musica Elegentia
Cappella Pratensis, Stratton Bull, Sollazzo Ensemble
La Sfera Armoniosa, Oscar Verhaar, Mike Fentross
Simona Marchesi, Bartolomeo Dandolo Marchesi
Ben Kim, Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Jan Willem de Vriend
Karina Gauvin; Quatuor Molinari; Pentaedre
Stephane Tetreault; Olivier Hebert-Bouchard
Uusinta Ensemble, Eija Kankaanranta, Maria Puusaari, Olga Heikkila, Kamus Quartet
Elizabeth Knatt, David Clements, Rachel Barnes, Scott Taylor
Klaus Haidl
Robert M. Helmschrott
Robert M. Helmschrott
Kevin Juillerat (electronics), Cedric Pecia (prepared piano)
