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Northscapes - Music of Vasks, Saariaho & More / Leva Jokubaviciute
Sono Luminus

Northscapes - Music of Vasks, Saariaho & More / Leva Jokubaviciute

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Details

Composer
VARIOUS
Artist
Ieva Jokubaviciute
Format
CD
Label
Sono Luminus
Released
Sep 10, 2021
Catalog #
DSL-92251
UPC
053479225122

About

The recording project Northscapes weaves works-from the first decades of the twenty-first century by composers from the Nordic and Baltic countries of Europe-into a tapestry of soundscapes, vibrating between landscape and the imagination, between the external and internal, between nature and psyche. What these works for piano solo share is a particular attunement to nature, reverberating out of the ever-present reservoir of pagan myths, legends, and folk music of the region. Their sensitivity to the sonic environment allows these composers to explore the liminal space dividing yet connecting landscape, soundscape, and mindscape.

More than mere musical "representations" of the striking natural landscapes of the North, each work, in it's own way, attempts to transform the natural world into a sonic landscape, a mindscape, into imaginary geographies. More than simply pastoral nostalgia, these sonic meditations on nature reach beyond the physical to the spiritual, probing the limit dividing the objective and subjective. Whether it is vast cosmic space or the intimate, interiority of the expressive voice, these works harness the power of music to probe the emotional contours of the tension between world and mind.

Haunted by landscapes colored by memory, fantasy, dreams, decay and infused with emotion, this music shifts consciousness through a transformational synthesis of landscape, soundscape, and mindscape - a shift from imaginary soundscapes to soundscapes of the imagination. In the hands of Lithuanian pianist Ieva Jokubaviciute, Northscapes is a sonic Aurora Borealis, Northern Lights of the ear and mind. -- Christopher Zimmerman

REVIEWS:

A superb recital disc from a quite exceptionally talented pianist…I was consistently won over by the fabulous talents of Jokubaviciute. The representative of her agency described her in an email introducing this recording as “one hell of a pianist”. For once, such a comment is an understatement!

-- MusicWeb International

This fascinating, unusual and at times enthralling selection is performed with a great balance of precision, understanding and respect. Importantly for a program in which textural considerations are central, Northscapes is beautifully recorded with warmth, plenty of space and no brassiness in the upper registers.

-- Limelight

It is a fascinating, well-balanced programme, played with engrossingly undemonstrative virtuosity…Jokubaviciute navigates the contrasting demands of each work with hugely impressive skill and Sono Luminus’s sound is superb. This is an enthralling programme from the northern world that no listener wary of contemporary music need be fearful of (Vasks’s nostalgically evocative score, for instance), though demands are sometimes made of their ears. Recommended.

-- Gramophone

Tracklist 9 tracks

  1. 1 Invocation of Pristine Light, Op. 52, No. 1 07:55
    Track
    1
    Title
    Invocation of Pristine Light, Op. 52, No. 1
    Duration
    07:55
    Composer
    Lasse Thoresen
    Performer
    Ieva Jokubaviciute
  2. 2 Scape 07:42
    Track
    2
    Title
    Scape
    Duration
    07:42
    Composer
    Anna Þorvaldsdóttir
    Performer
    Ieva Jokubaviciute
  3. 3 I. Mignon - Und die Sonne geht Unter 04:08
    Track
    3
    Title
    I. Mignon - Und die Sonne geht Unter
    Duration
    04:08
    Composer
    Bent Sørensen
    Performer
    Ieva Jokubaviciute
  4. 4 III. Nachtlicher fluss 01:16
    Track
    4
    Title
    III. Nachtlicher fluss
    Duration
    01:16
    Composer
    Bent Sørensen
    Performer
    Ieva Jokubaviciute
  5. 5 VII. Mitternacht mit Mignon 02:46
    Track
    5
    Title
    VII. Mitternacht mit Mignon
    Duration
    02:46
    Composer
    Bent Sørensen
    Performer
    Ieva Jokubaviciute
  6. 6 Prelude for Piano 06:58
    Track
    6
    Title
    Prelude for Piano
    Duration
    06:58
    Composer
    Kaija Saariaho
    Performer
    Ieva Jokubaviciute
  7. 7 Fantasia 10:18
    Track
    7
    Title
    Fantasia
    Duration
    10:18
    Composer
    Raminta Šerkšnyté
    Performer
    Ieva Jokubaviciute
  8. 8 Vasaras vakara mūzika (Music for a summer evening) 05:57
    Track
    8
    Title
    Vasaras vakara mūzika (Music for a summer evening)
    Duration
    05:57
    Composer
    Pēteris Vasks
    Performer
    Ieva Jokubaviciute
  9. 9 Invocation of Rising Air, Op. 52, No. 2 07:44
    Track
    9
    Title
    Invocation of Rising Air, Op. 52, No. 2
    Duration
    07:44
    Composer
    Lasse Thoresen
    Performer
    Ieva Jokubaviciute