Chopin: Sovereign Lines / Saur

$9.49
Label
Azica Records
Release Date
July 16, 2021
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      ABRAHAMSEN ADES CHOPIN
    • PERFORMER
      Thomas Sauer
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      July 16, 2021
    • UPC
      787867133828
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ACD-71338
    • LABEL
      Azica Records
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical

“It cannot be easy to write for solo piano: so many magnificent sounds of the 18th and 19th centuries abide in the ears of today’s pianists and concertgoers. By including some of my favorite Chopin miniatures alongside three major piano pieces from the 1990’s, I could well stand accused of an all-too-common reluctance to break from the past. I prefer to treat with this vexed situation pragmatically, acknowledging the reality that most of my listeners will perceive the new refracted through the lens of the old, and that some will simply be more inclined to keep listening when given a dose of the familiar together with the strange. All three recent works recorded here bear some imprint of the pianistic past—each in a different way—and yet all three successfully outrun it.” (Thomas Saur)