Influences / Tamara Stefanovich

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Label
PENTATONE
Release Date
March 8, 2019
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BACH BARTOK IVES MESSIAEN
    • PERFORMER
      Tamara Stefanovich
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      March 08, 2019
    • UPC
      827949074165
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      PTC5186741
    • LABEL
      PENTATONE
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Adagio con moto - Allegro con moto - Allegro risoluto - Adagio cantabile

      Composer: Charles Ives

      Performer: Tamara Stefanovich

    2. IIa. Allegro moderato - Andante -

      Composer: Charles Ives

      Performer: Tamara Stefanovich

    3. IIb. Allegro - Meno mosso con moto, "In the Inn"

      Composer: Charles Ives

      Performer: Tamara Stefanovich

    4. III. Largo - Allegro - Largo

      Composer: Charles Ives

      Performer: Tamara Stefanovich

    5. IVa. [—]

      Composer: Charles Ives

      Performer: Tamara Stefanovich

    6. IVb. Allegro - Presto - Slow

      Composer: Charles Ives

      Performer: Tamara Stefanovich

    7. V. Andante maestoso - Adagio cantabile - Allegro - Andante

      Composer: Charles Ives

      Performer: Tamara Stefanovich

    8. No. 1. Molto moderato

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Performer: Tamara Stefanovich

    9. No. 2. Molto capriccioso

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Performer: Tamara Stefanovich

    10. No. 3. Lento, rubato

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Performer: Tamara Stefanovich

    11. No. 4. Allegretto scherzando

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Performer: Tamara Stefanovich

    12. No. 5. Allegro molto

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Performer: Tamara Stefanovich

    13. No. 6. Allegro moderato, molto capriccioso

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Performer: Tamara Stefanovich

    14. No. 7. Sostenuto, rubato

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Performer: Tamara Stefanovich

    15. No. 8. Allegro

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Performer: Tamara Stefanovich

    16. Cantéyodjayâ

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Performer: Tamara Stefanovich

    17. Aria

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Tamara Stefanovich

    18. Variation 1

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Tamara Stefanovich

    19. Variation 2

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Tamara Stefanovich

    20. Variation 3

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Tamara Stefanovich

    21. Variation 4

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Tamara Stefanovich

    22. Variation 5

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Tamara Stefanovich

    23. Variation 6

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Tamara Stefanovich

    24. Variation 7

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Tamara Stefanovich

    25. Variation 8

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Tamara Stefanovich

    26. Variation 9

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Tamara Stefanovich

    27. Variation 10

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Tamara Stefanovich




On her first Pentatone album, pianist Tamara Stefanovich presents a highly personal selection of solo works by Bach, Bartók, Ives and Messiaen. Influences shows how these extraordinarily original and idiosyncratic composers let themselves be inspired by the exterior world, thereby demonstrating how authenticity comes from looking outside as well as inside. The repertoire spans from Bach’s embrace of Italian musical elements in his Aria variata alla maniera italiana, Bartók’s incorporation of folk elements in his Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs, and Messiaen’s use of Hindu rhythms in Cantéyodjayâ to the collage of marching bands, sounds of trains and machinery, church hymns, ragtime and blues in Ives’ first piano sonata. In all cases, the exterior influences lead to deeply original and personal sonic galaxies. In that respect, the pieces presented here underline how identity results from a constant dialogue with our surroundings, ever changing and enriching our perceptions of ourselves and the world.

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REVIEW:

The overall excellence of Tamara Stefanovich’s interpretations is enhanced by a superb multichannel recording characterised by full-bodied ambience an concert-hall realism. Stefanovich voices Ives’s thick and ringing choral dissonances from the bottom up, taking full measure of the music’s spaciousness and resonant potential. After more than an hour of substantial 20th-century fare, the appearance of Bach proves a veritable tonic in Stefanovich’s hands.

– Gramophone