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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... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2019 More…

Release Date: 15th Mar 2019
Catalogue No: PTC5186741
Label: Pentatone
Length: 79 minutes

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Ives, C: Piano Sonata No. 1

Work length41:31

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Tamara Stefanovich (piano)
Recorded: 21-24 June 2018
Recording Venue: Teldex Studio, Berlin, Germany

I. Adagio con moto

Track length9:33

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IIa. Allegro moderato

Track length1:40

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IIb. Allegro "In the Inn"

Track length4:19

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III. Largo - Allegro - Largo, come pima

Track length7:27

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IVa.

Track length1:26

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IVb. Allegro - Presto

Track length3:45

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V. Andante maestoso

Track length13:21

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Bartók: Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs, Sz. 74, Op. 20

Work length11:20

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Tamara Stefanovich (piano)
Recorded: 21-24 June 2018
Recording Venue: Teldex Studio, Berlin, Germany

No. 1, Molto moderato

Track length1:04

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No. 2, Molto capriccioso

Track length0:53

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No. 3, Lento, rubato

Track length2:09

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No. 4, Allegretto scherzando

Track length0:48

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No. 5, Allegro molto

Track length0:56

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No. 6, Allegro moderato, molto capriccioso

Track length1:32

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No. 7, Sostenuto, rubato

Track length2:00

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No. 8, Allegro

Track length1:58

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Messiaen: Cantéyodjayâ

Work length12:02

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Tamara Stefanovich (piano)
Recorded: 21-24 June 2018
Recording Venue: Teldex Studio, Berlin, Germany

Bach, J S: Aria Variata in A minor, BWV989 ‘alla Maniera Italiana'

Work length14:31

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Tamara Stefanovich (piano)
Recorded: 21-24 June 2018
Recording Venue: Teldex Studio, Berlin, Germany

Aria

Track length2:42

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Var. 1. Largo

Track length1:16

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Var. 2,

Track length1:07

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Var. 3.

Track length0:56

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Var. 4. Allegro

Track length1:00

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Var. 5. Un poco allegro

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Var. 6. Andante

Track length1:38

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Var. 7. Un poco allegro

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Var. 8. Allegro

Track length0:48

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Var. 9,

Track length0:39

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Var. 10,

Track length2:32

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Interview, Tamara Stefanovich on Influences

28th March 2019

The pianist talks to Katherine about her debut recording on Pentatone, featuring music by JS Bach, Bartók, Ives and Messiaen.

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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April 2019

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.

June 2019

Stefanovich’s reading of the Bartók Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs is one of the richest in the catalogue. The influence of South Indian Carnatic music pervades Messiaen’s Cantéyodjayâ. This chiseled, uncompromising music suits Stefanovich perfectly. It is a stroke of genius to juxtapose Messiaen with Bach, the Aria variata alla maniera italiana, played with a finger clarity reminiscent of Argerich’s Bach. Luminously played, recorded with great presence and with a playing time just short of 80 minutes, this is an unmissable disc.

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