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Auerbach: Preludes Op 41, Ten Dreams Op 45, Etc

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Details

Composer
AUERBACH, LERA
Artist
Lera, Auerbach
Format
CD
Label
BIS
Released
Jul 01, 2006
Catalog #
BIS-CD-1462
UPC
7318590014622

About


Lera Auerbach's music is direct, immediate in impact, volatile in mood, and never at a loss for big gestures. As I indicated in my review of an earlier Auerbach BIS release, the composer clearly has imbibed from the bountiful Shostakovich/Schnittke watering hole, but her own voice always comes across, especially in her gift for pulling ingenuous surprise endings out of the blue. Following the same key scheme as Chopin's Op. 28 Preludes, Auerbach's own group of 24 provides plenty of stimulating listening and comprehensive pianism. In the G major and B minor Preludes, for example, Auerbach takes the slow, obsessive repeated-note aesthetic of Ravel's Gibet to new and dramatically disquieting levels, while sprinkling sparse, dissonant melodic droplets on top of a lulling left-hand ostinato in the F-sharp major. The E-flat starts out like a brooding chorale prelude injected with late Shostakovich gloom and doom, then builds to a slow-motion, frenzied climax. The G-sharp minor contains more harmonic spice than most brutally pounded-out marches.

Although stylistically similar to the Preludes, the Ten Dreams Op. 45 are much darker in tone and last half as long (they take 21 minutes to the Preludes' 45). The opening movement of the Chorale, Fugue and Postlude is the work's strongest, where resonating B minor chords with endless fermatas stand as pillars for slow, processional chorale-like phrases that seem to provide their own Russian male choir.

I'm glad that BIS has taken advantage of the composer's keyboard prowess, because Auerbach plays Auerbach marvelously. She commands a huge sonority and wide dynamic range, along with fluid, flexible fingers that can handle anything. In particular, Auerbach is a past master at balancing those closely-voiced chords she loves so that each note stands in clear relation to its neighbor, like jewels in a tiara rather than grains in mush. She may not push the composer/pianist tradition into new terrain, yet there's no doubt that Lera Auerbach has something quite potent to say.

--Jed , ClassicsToday.com

Tracklist 37 tracks

  1. 1 Prelude No. 1 in C Major 01:54
    Track
    1
    Title
    Prelude No. 1 in C Major
    Duration
    01:54
    Composer
    Lera Auerbach
    Performer
    Lera Auerbach
  2. 2 Prelude No. 2 in A Minor 01:00
    Track
    2
    Title
    Prelude No. 2 in A Minor
    Duration
    01:00
    Composer
    Lera Auerbach
    Performer
    Lera Auerbach
  3. 3 Prelude No. 3 in G Major 03:06
    Track
    3
    Title
    Prelude No. 3 in G Major
    Duration
    03:06
    Composer
    Lera Auerbach
    Performer
    Lera Auerbach
  4. 4 Prelude No. 4 in E Minor 02:01
    Track
    4
    Title
    Prelude No. 4 in E Minor
    Duration
    02:01
    Composer
    Lera Auerbach
    Performer
    Lera Auerbach
  5. 5 Prelude No. 5 in D Major 02:17
    Track
    5
    Title
    Prelude No. 5 in D Major
    Duration
    02:17
    Composer
    Lera Auerbach
    Performer
    Lera Auerbach
  6. 6 Prelude No. 6 in B Minor 03:10
    Track
    6
    Title
    Prelude No. 6 in B Minor
    Duration
    03:10
    Composer
    Lera Auerbach
    Performer
    Lera Auerbach
  7. 7 Prelude No. 7 in A Major 01:28
    Track
    7
    Title
    Prelude No. 7 in A Major
    Duration
    01:28
    Composer
    Lera Auerbach
    Performer
    Lera Auerbach
  8. 8 Prelude No. 8 in F-Sharp Minor 01:09
    Track
    8
    Title
    Prelude No. 8 in F-Sharp Minor
    Duration
    01:09
    Composer
    Lera Auerbach
    Performer
    Lera Auerbach
  9. 9 Prelude No. 9 in E Major 00:57
    Track
    9
    Title
    Prelude No. 9 in E Major
    Duration
    00:57
    Composer
    Lera Auerbach
    Performer
    Lera Auerbach
  10. 10 Prelude No. 10 in C-Sharp Minor 01:52
    Track
    10
    Title
    Prelude No. 10 in C-Sharp Minor
    Duration
    01:52
    Composer
    Lera Auerbach
    Performer
    Lera Auerbach
  11. 11 Prelude No. 11 in B Major 01:04
    Track
    11
    Title
    Prelude No. 11 in B Major
    Duration
    01:04
    Composer
    Lera Auerbach
    Performer
    Lera Auerbach
  12. 12 Prelude No. 12 in G-Sharp Minor 00:46
    Track
    12
    Title
    Prelude No. 12 in G-Sharp Minor
    Duration
    00:46
    Composer
    Lera Auerbach
    Performer
    Lera Auerbach
  13. 13 Prelude No. 13 in F-Sharp Major 01:31
    Track
    13
    Title
    Prelude No. 13 in F-Sharp Major
    Duration
    01:31
    Composer
    Lera Auerbach
    Performer
    Lera Auerbach
  14. 14 Prelude No. 14 in E-Flat Minor 00:44
    Track
    14
    Title
    Prelude No. 14 in E-Flat Minor
    Duration
    00:44
    Composer
    Lera Auerbach
    Performer
    Lera Auerbach
  15. 15 Prelude No. 15 in D-Flat Major 01:41
    Track
    15
    Title
    Prelude No. 15 in D-Flat Major
    Duration
    01:41
    Composer
    Lera Auerbach
    Performer
    Lera Auerbach
  16. 16 Prelude No. 16 in B-Flat Minor 02:15
    Track
    16
    Title
    Prelude No. 16 in B-Flat Minor
    Duration
    02:15
    Composer
    Lera Auerbach
    Performer
    Lera Auerbach
  17. 17 Prelude No. 17 in A-Flat Major 01:54
    Track
    17
    Title
    Prelude No. 17 in A-Flat Major
    Duration
    01:54
    Composer
    Lera Auerbach
    Performer
    Lera Auerbach
  18. 18 Prelude No. 18 in F Minor 02:33
    Track
    18
    Title
    Prelude No. 18 in F Minor
    Duration
    02:33
    Composer
    Lera Auerbach
    Performer
    Lera Auerbach
  19. 19 Prelude No. 19 in E-Flat Major 02:06
    Track
    19
    Title
    Prelude No. 19 in E-Flat Major
    Duration
    02:06
    Composer
    Lera Auerbach
    Performer
    Lera Auerbach
  20. 20 Prelude No. 20 in C Minor 00:54
    Track
    20
    Title
    Prelude No. 20 in C Minor
    Duration
    00:54
    Composer
    Lera Auerbach
    Performer
    Lera Auerbach
  21. 21 Prelude No. 21 in B-Flat Major 01:01
    Track
    21
    Title
    Prelude No. 21 in B-Flat Major
    Duration
    01:01
    Composer
    Lera Auerbach
    Performer
    Lera Auerbach
  22. 22 Prelude No. 22 in G Minor 02:10
    Track
    22
    Title
    Prelude No. 22 in G Minor
    Duration
    02:10
    Composer
    Lera Auerbach
    Performer
    Lera Auerbach
  23. 23 Prelude No. 23 in F Major 01:49
    Track
    23
    Title
    Prelude No. 23 in F Major
    Duration
    01:49
    Composer
    Lera Auerbach
    Performer
    Lera Auerbach
  24. 24 Prelude No. 24 in D Minor 05:13
    Track
    24
    Title
    Prelude No. 24 in D Minor
    Duration
    05:13
    Composer
    Lera Auerbach
    Performer
    Lera Auerbach
  25. 25 No. 1. Allegro ma on troppo, "As in a nightmare" 03:02
    Track
    25
    Title
    No. 1. Allegro ma on troppo, "As in a nightmare"
    Duration
    03:02
    Composer
    Lera Auerbach
    Performer
    Lera Auerbach
  26. 26 No. 2. Andante ad lib. 01:40
    Track
    26
    Title
    No. 2. Andante ad lib.
    Duration
    01:40
    Composer
    Lera Auerbach
    Performer
    Lera Auerbach
  27. 27 No. 3. Andante misterioso 02:15
    Track
    27
    Title
    No. 3. Andante misterioso
    Duration
    02:15
    Composer
    Lera Auerbach
    Performer
    Lera Auerbach
  28. 28 No. 4. Allegro ma non troppo 01:26
    Track
    28
    Title
    No. 4. Allegro ma non troppo
    Duration
    01:26
    Composer
    Lera Auerbach
    Performer
    Lera Auerbach
  29. 29 No. 5. Tempo di marcia 03:02
    Track
    29
    Title
    No. 5. Tempo di marcia
    Duration
    03:02
    Composer
    Lera Auerbach
    Performer
    Lera Auerbach
  30. 30 No. 6. Adagio sognando 02:08
    Track
    30
    Title
    No. 6. Adagio sognando
    Duration
    02:08
    Composer
    Lera Auerbach
    Performer
    Lera Auerbach
  31. 31 No. 7. Allegro assai 01:55
    Track
    31
    Title
    No. 7. Allegro assai
    Duration
    01:55
    Composer
    Lera Auerbach
    Performer
    Lera Auerbach
  32. 32 No. 8. Moderato 02:10
    Track
    32
    Title
    No. 8. Moderato
    Duration
    02:10
    Composer
    Lera Auerbach
    Performer
    Lera Auerbach
  33. 33 No. 9. Allegro misterioso 00:30
    Track
    33
    Title
    No. 9. Allegro misterioso
    Duration
    00:30
    Composer
    Lera Auerbach
    Performer
    Lera Auerbach
  34. 34 No. 10. Allegro 02:54
    Track
    34
    Title
    No. 10. Allegro
    Duration
    02:54
    Composer
    Lera Auerbach
    Performer
    Lera Auerbach
  35. 35 Chorale 04:57
    Track
    35
    Title
    Chorale
    Duration
    04:57
    Composer
    Lera Auerbach
    Performer
    Lera Auerbach
  36. 36 Fugue 04:24
    Track
    36
    Title
    Fugue
    Duration
    04:24
    Composer
    Lera Auerbach
    Performer
    Lera Auerbach
  37. 37 Postlude 02:54
    Track
    37
    Title
    Postlude
    Duration
    02:54
    Composer
    Lera Auerbach
    Performer
    Lera Auerbach