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The Elastic Heart of Youth

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Details

Composer
Claude Debussy, Augusta Gross, Leos Janacek, Missy Mazzoli, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Domenico Scarla
Artist
Bruce Levingston
Format
CD
Label
Sono Luminus
Released
Jun 12, 2026
Catalog #
DSL-92289
UPC
053479228901

About

The Elastic Heart of Youth Preface - Notes of Renewal If we understood the world, we would realize that there is a logic of harmony underlying it's manifold apparent dissonances. - Jean Sibelius, In 1907, in conversation with Gustav Mahler. Originating in distinct musical dialects - Baroque, Classical, Nordic, Slavic, French, and contemporary - the works recorded here are bound together by a vivid, elastic heart: a profound spirit of vitality that endures through tension and release, stillness and motion, loss and restoration. Beneath their differing voices beats a kindred pulse shared with the natural world. Sibelius's Le Sapin evokes the spruce's calm and poise, it's hushed sonorities suggesting their own logic of repose. Janacek's Sonata 1.X.1905 bears witness - urgent, searching, unafraid-it's broken arcs invoking the dissonances of modernity's estrangement from nature and the fragile openings through which rebirth begins. Debussy's etude pour les arpeges composes and La fille aux cheveux de lin shimmer with shifting light and color, while Clair de lune unfolds in the moon's tender chiaroscuro, a meditation of light, shadow, and serenity. Mozart's Fantasy in D minor restores grace and clarity not by denying shadow, but by transfiguring it; it's improvisatory nature finds form through discovery. Scarlatti's sonatas dance with quick, inventive pulse: sunlight on stone, castanets crossing through the air. Their brilliance is youthful joy tempered by seasoned experience. Gross's Solace turns inward towards repose. Here the heart practices a different virtuosity - the courage to be calm, to let resonance and renewal begin. Even in this quietude, her music recalls nature's adaptability, it's patient recalibrations in the face of change. Missy Mazzoli's The Elastic Heart of Youth gathers all these energies into a radiant celebration of life. It's tensile rhythms and glowing harmonies echo the supple strength of the living world-the capacity to bend, to adapt, to begin again.

Tracklist 11 tracks

  1. 1 5 Pieces, Op. 75, "The Trees": No. 5. Granen (The Spruce) 03:53
    Track
    1
    Title
    5 Pieces, Op. 75, "The Trees": No. 5. Granen (The Spruce)
    Duration
    03:53
    Composer
    Jean Sibelius
    Performer
    Bruce Levingston
  2. 2 I. Předtucha (Foreboding): Con moto 06:22
    Track
    2
    Title
    I. Předtucha (Foreboding): Con moto
    Duration
    06:22
    Composer
    Leoš Janáček
    Performer
    Bruce Levingston
  3. 3 II. Smrt (Death) 08:06
    Track
    3
    Title
    II. Smrt (Death)
    Duration
    08:06
    Composer
    Leoš Janáček
    Performer
    Bruce Levingston
  4. 4 Solace 03:08
    Track
    4
    Title
    Solace
    Duration
    03:08
    Composer
    Augusta Gross
    Performer
    Bruce Levingston
  5. 5 12 Etudes: No. 11. Pour les arpèges composés (For written arpeggios) 05:19
    Track
    5
    Title
    12 Etudes: No. 11. Pour les arpèges composés (For written arpeggios)
    Duration
    05:19
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Performer
    Bruce Levingston
  6. 6 Préludes, Book 1: No. 8. La fille aux cheveux de lin 02:27
    Track
    6
    Title
    Préludes, Book 1: No. 8. La fille aux cheveux de lin
    Duration
    02:27
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Performer
    Bruce Levingston
  7. 7 Suite bergamasque: III. Clair de lune 05:44
    Track
    7
    Title
    Suite bergamasque: III. Clair de lune
    Duration
    05:44
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Performer
    Bruce Levingston
  8. 8 Fantasia in D Minor, K. 397 (completed by A.E. Müller) 05:53
    Track
    8
    Title
    Fantasia in D Minor, K. 397 (completed by A.E. Müller)
    Duration
    05:53
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Bruce Levingston
  9. 9 Keyboard Sonata in D Minor, K.213/L.108/P.288 08:20
    Track
    9
    Title
    Keyboard Sonata in D Minor, K.213/L.108/P.288
    Duration
    08:20
    Composer
    Domenico Scarlatti
    Performer
    Bruce Levingston
  10. 10 Keyboard Sonata in A Minor, K.54/L.241/P.147 05:50
    Track
    10
    Title
    Keyboard Sonata in A Minor, K.54/L.241/P.147
    Duration
    05:50
    Composer
    Domenico Scarlatti
    Performer
    Bruce Levingston
  11. 11 The Elastic Heart of Youth 04:28
    Track
    11
    Title
    The Elastic Heart of Youth
    Duration
    04:28
    Composer
    Missy Mazzoli
    Performer
    Bruce Levingston