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Pejačević: Chamber Music / Trio RoVerde
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Pejačević: Chamber Music / Trio RoVerde

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Details

Composer
Dora Pejacevic
Artist
Ekaterina Litvintseva, Lusine Harutyunyan, Caroline Sypniewski
Format
CD
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
Feb 16, 2024
Catalog #
BRI97020
UPC
5028421970202

About

The pianist Ekaterina Litvintseva won critical praise for her solo album on Piano Classics (PCL10226) of piano music by Dora Pejačević: ‘You owe it to yourself to make the acquaintance of Dora Pejačević if you haven’t done so already.’ (Fanfare, May 2022)

With her colleagues in Trio RoVerde, she now turns to the Croatian composer’s chamber music. The Cello Sonata dates from 1913, the same year as Pejačević wrote the first piano concerto by any Croatian composer. Like Brahms’s First Cello Sonata and Elgar’s Cello Concerto, it is cast in a moody E minor, with a yearning character are established from the outset by a long-limbed cantabile melody for the cellist. Pejačević proceeds to develop a passionate dialogue between cello and piano through an assured handling of sonata form.

The following sequence of miniatures for violin and piano evokes the world of the salon in their titles, but the Schumannesque warmth of the Romanze Op.22, from 1907, is replaced by a style at once more wistful and refined by the time of the Elegie, which she wrote in the same pivotal year (1913) as the Cello Sonata. From seven years later, the Meditation Op.51 makes no retreat into solipsism but paints a three-minute sketch of a new and uncertain world.
From 1910, the C major Piano Trio returns us to safer ground. Pejačević demonstrates a notable sensitivity in writing for a tricky combination of instruments: strong melodic writing for the string instruments counterbalances the weight of the piano part, which is in any case deftly pointed and touched by the composer’s experience as a performer. If Pejačević’s chamber music has not taken its place in the standard repertoire of late-Romanticism, it is our loss, and one that an increasing number of performances and recordings such as this one are belatedly redressing.

Tracklist 13 tracks

  1. 1 I. Allegro moderato 07:26
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegro moderato
    Duration
    07:26
    Composer
    Dora Pejačević
    Performer
    Caroline Sypniewski, Ekaterina Litvintseva
  2. 2 II. Scherzo: Allegro 06:54
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Scherzo: Allegro
    Duration
    06:54
    Composer
    Dora Pejačević
    Performer
    Caroline Sypniewski, Ekaterina Litvintseva
  3. 3 III. Adagio sostenuto 07:27
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Adagio sostenuto
    Duration
    07:27
    Composer
    Dora Pejačević
    Performer
    Caroline Sypniewski, Ekaterina Litvintseva
  4. 4 IV. Allegro comodo 06:54
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Allegro comodo
    Duration
    06:54
    Composer
    Dora Pejačević
    Performer
    Caroline Sypniewski, Ekaterina Litvintseva
  5. 5 Canzonetta in D Major, Op. 8 03:12
    Track
    5
    Title
    Canzonetta in D Major, Op. 8
    Duration
    03:12
    Composer
    Dora Pejačević
    Performer
    Lusiné Harutyunyan, Ekaterina Litvintseva
  6. 6 Menuet in A Major, Op. 18 04:01
    Track
    6
    Title
    Menuet in A Major, Op. 18
    Duration
    04:01
    Composer
    Dora Pejačević
    Performer
    Lusiné Harutyunyan, Ekaterina Litvintseva
  7. 7 Romanze in F Major, Op. 22 02:26
    Track
    7
    Title
    Romanze in F Major, Op. 22
    Duration
    02:26
    Composer
    Dora Pejačević
    Performer
    Lusiné Harutyunyan, Ekaterina Litvintseva
  8. 8 Élégie in E Flat Major, Op. 34 03:32
    Track
    8
    Title
    Élégie in E Flat Major, Op. 34
    Duration
    03:32
    Composer
    Dora Pejačević
    Performer
    Lusiné Harutyunyan, Ekaterina Litvintseva
  9. 9 Meditation, Op. 51 02:39
    Track
    9
    Title
    Meditation, Op. 51
    Duration
    02:39
    Composer
    Dora Pejačević
    Performer
    Lusiné Harutyunyan, Ekaterina Litvintseva
  10. 10 I. Allegro con moto 10:32
    Track
    10
    Title
    I. Allegro con moto
    Duration
    10:32
    Composer
    Dora Pejačević
    Ensemble
    Trio RoVerde
  11. 11 II. Scherzo: Allegro 06:39
    Track
    11
    Title
    II. Scherzo: Allegro
    Duration
    06:39
    Composer
    Dora Pejačević
    Ensemble
    Trio RoVerde
  12. 12 III. Lento - Allegretto 08:15
    Track
    12
    Title
    III. Lento - Allegretto
    Duration
    08:15
    Composer
    Dora Pejačević
    Ensemble
    Trio RoVerde
  13. 13 IV. Finale: Allegro risoluto 09:24
    Track
    13
    Title
    IV. Finale: Allegro risoluto
    Duration
    09:24
    Composer
    Dora Pejačević
    Ensemble
    Trio RoVerde