Passages - Solo Piano Works Inspired by Opera & Song / Ditlow

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Affetto Records
Release Date
April 21, 2023
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Carl Czerny, George Gershwin, Pietro Mascagni, Richard Wagner, Franz Liszt, Robert Schumann, Ernesto
    • PERFORMER
      Kristin Ditlow
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      April 21, 2023
    • UPC
      195269186067
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      AF2302
    • LABEL
      Affetto Records
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Piano
    Works ⌄

    1. 24 Negro Melodies, Op. 59, No. 1: No. 10. Deep River

      Composer: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

      Performer: Kristin Ditlow

    2. 12 Lieder von Schubert, S558/R243: No. 2. Auf dem Wasser zu singen

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Kristin Ditlow

    3. Orfeo ed Euridice: Melodie (arr. A. Chasins for piano)

      Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck

      Performer: Kristin Ditlow

    4. Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 25, D. 795: No. 2. Wohin? (arr. S. Rachmaninov for piano)

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Kristin Ditlow

    5. Reminiscenses de Norma (arr. K. Ditlow for piano)

      Composer: Teresa Carreño

      Performer: Kristin Ditlow

    6. Mongolian Shepherd Song

      Composer: Kristin Ditlow

      Performer: Kristin Ditlow

    7. No. 1. Molto moderato

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Performer: Kristin Ditlow

    8. No. 2. Molto capriccioso

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Performer: Kristin Ditlow

    9. No. 3. Lento, rubato

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Performer: Kristin Ditlow

    10. No. 4. Allegretto scherzando

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Performer: Kristin Ditlow

    11. No. 5. Allegro molto

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Performer: Kristin Ditlow

    12. No. 6. Allegro moderato, molto capriccioso

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Performer: Kristin Ditlow

    13. No. 7. Sostenuto, rubato (Le Tombeau de Claude Debussy: No. 5)

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Performer: Kristin Ditlow

    14. No. 8. Allegro

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Performer: Kristin Ditlow

    15. Andalucia, "Suite espagnola": VI. Malagueña (arr. K. Ditlow for piano)

      Composer: Ernesto Lecuona

      Performer: Kristin Ditlow

    16. No. 22. Sometimes I feel like a motherless child

      Composer: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

      Performer: Kristin Ditlow

    17. No. 4. They will not lend me a child

      Composer: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

      Performer: Kristin Ditlow

    18. Schumann - Liebeslied, S566/R253, "Widmung"

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Kristin Ditlow

    19. Liederkreis, Op. 39: No. 5. Mondnacht (arr. C. Schumann for piano)

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Kristin Ditlow

    20. Années de pèlerinage, 2nd year, Italy, S161/R10b: No. 5. Sonetto 104 del Petrarca (Sonnet 104 of Petrarch)

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Kristin Ditlow

    21. Wagner - Spinnerlied aus dem Fliegenden Holländer, S440/R273

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Kristin Ditlow

    22. Cavalleria rusticana: Intermezzo (arr. K. Ditlow for piano)

      Composer: Pietro Mascagni

      Performer: Kristin Ditlow

    23. Lady, be Good!: The Man I Love (arr. P. Grainger for piano)

      Composer: George Gershwin

      Performer: Kristin Ditlow

    24. Fantaisie brillante on themes from the opera The Marriage of Figaro, Op. 493

      Composer: Carl Czerny

      Performer: Kristin Ditlow

    25. 24 Negro Melodies, Op. 59, No. 1: No. 23. Steal away

      Composer: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

      Performer: Kristin Ditlow


Composers are often tasked with creating from a void, an emptiness. The blank page is an easel. The parts of a structure of a piece of music – melody, accompaniment, line, harmony, tension, and release – must take shape to reach the listener’s ear. Sometimes, instead of starting with an empty sheet of staff paper, a composer creates something which is pollinated by another source. Perhaps it is a folk song, a poem, a melody, or an even larger work, such as a full-length opera. New works are then realized. In the case of this two-cd set, an East South African folk tune receives new life as a romantic piano ballade. A sonnet of Petrarch resurfaces centuries later as a dramatic declaration of love, through a solo piano work. The repertoire on these discs traces Kristin Ditlow’s own growth as a pianist and musician. Each work marks a chapter of her development and artistry to the present. The song transcriptions are pieces that have been played countless times with vocal partners: the operatic works are works that she has coached or conducted. Her passionate pursuit of travel is also a thread which weaves throughout the discs: the Samuel Coleridge-Taylor spiritual arrangements are works that she became acquainted with as a high school choral accompanist: meeting her husband while on tour in China in 2012: the Mongolian Shepherd Song is her arrangement of a traditional folksong from the Chinese Mongolian community, a work introduced to her by her husband in China originally for erhu and pipa (traditional Chinese instruments) accompaniment but transcribed for violin and piano. Kristin Ditlow has spent five summers performing, teaching, and coaching in Hungary and the Bartók selections all harken back to those times in the Hungarian countryside. Pianist, coach and conductor Dr. Kristin Ditlow dedicates her musical career to collaboration and connection. She has been seen in concert throughout North America, Mainland China, and Western Europe as a soloist, collaborative pianist, and conductor. The set of music pieces in this album is representative of her “Passages” in her career.