Bolcom, Chopin: Vers le silence / Dank

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Avie Records
Release Date
August 20, 2021
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BOLCOM CHOPIN
    • PERFORMER
      Ran Dank
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 20, 2021
    • UPC
      822252247527
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      AV2475
    • LABEL
      Avie Records
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Polonaise No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 40, No. 2

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Ran Dank

    2. Book 1: No. 1. Fast, furious

      Composer: William Bolcom

      Performer: Ran Dank

    3. Book 1: No. 2. Récitatif

      Composer: William Bolcom

      Performer: Ran Dank

    4. Book 1: No. 3. Mirrors

      Composer: William Bolcom

      Performer: Ran Dank

    5. Mazurka No. 46 in C Major, Op. 68, No. 1

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Ran Dank

    6. Mazurka No. 43 in G Minor, Op. 67, No. 2

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Ran Dank

    7. Mazurka No. 51 in A Minor, Op. posth., "A Emile Gaillard"

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Ran Dank

    8. Book 2: No. 4. Scène d'opéra

      Composer: William Bolcom

      Performer: Ran Dank

    9. Book 2: No. 5. Butterflies, hummingbirds

      Composer: William Bolcom

      Performer: Ran Dank

    10. Book 2: No. 6. Nocturne

      Composer: William Bolcom

      Performer: Ran Dank

    11. Waltz No. 10 in B Minor, Op. 69, No. 2

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Ran Dank

    12. Waltz No. 5 in A-Flat Major, Op. 42

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Ran Dank

    13. Book 3: No. 7. Premonitions

      Composer: William Bolcom

      Performer: Ran Dank

    14. Book 3: No. 8. Rag infernal

      Composer: William Bolcom

      Performer: Ran Dank

    15. Book 3: No. 9. Invention

      Composer: William Bolcom

      Performer: Ran Dank

    16. Polonaise No. 6 in A-Flat Major, Op. 53, "Heroic"

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Ran Dank

    17. Book 4: No. 10. Vers le silence

      Composer: William Bolcom

      Performer: Ran Dank

    18. Book 4: No. 11. Hi-jinks

      Composer: William Bolcom

      Performer: Ran Dank

    19. Book 4: No. 12. Hymne à l'amour

      Composer: William Bolcom

      Performer: Ran Dank

    20. Mazurka No. 49 in F Minor, Op. 68, No. 4

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Ran Dank


At first glance, the musical worlds of Frédéric Chopin and William Bolcom would seem strange bedfellows. But on his solo debut recording, Israeli American pianist Ran Dank makes a convincing case for pairing the two composers. The former, Poland’s national composer, is synonymous with pianistic panache. The latter, a leading American, possesses one of contemporary music’s most bold and inventive voices. Juxtaposing the works of these two pianist-composers reveals their common affinity for the keyboard and ear for sound and sense of structure. William Bolcom’s Twelve New Etudes won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988. Wonderfully eclectic, they move effortlessly between one musical idiom to another with endless ingenuity, exhibiting all the traits of Bolcom’s compositional craft. Chopin equally excelled with his Etudes, but Dank turns to his plentiful Polonaises, Mazurkas and Waltzes which range in style from heroic, to dark and brooding, haunting and beautiful. Ran Dank, a Van Cliburn International Competition finalist and winner of the New York-based Young Concert Artists auditions, has been significantly influenced by these two composers who have shaped his trajectory as a pianist and musician. As a child to two parents from Poland, Chopin played a meaningful part in his upbringing, and he became mesmerized by the composer’s music at an early age. Bolcom’s music was a much later discovery, but one that has become equally valuable and fitting, following Dank’s move to America.