Route 66: American Piano Music

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Diluka's deft elegant playing displays equal affinity with all styles and approaches. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 10th Feb 2014
Catalogue No: MIR239
Label: Mirare
Length: 69 minutes

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Adams, J: China Gates

Work length4:39

Shani Diluka (soloist)

Jarrett, K: My Wild Irish Rose

Work length5:05

Shani Diluka (soloist)

Grainger: Lullaby

Work length5:05

Shani Diluka (soloist)

Barber: Pas de deux arr. from Souvenirs, Op. 28

Work length3:58

Shani Diluka (soloist)

Beach, A: Young Birches

Work length2:37

Shani Diluka (soloist)

Evans, B: Waltz for Debby

Work length2:09

Shani Diluka (soloist)

Glass, P: Etude No. 9

Work length2:16

Shani Diluka (soloist)

Bernstein: For Felicia Montealegre (from Four Anniversaries)

Work length1:58

Shani Diluka (soloist)

Cage: In a Landscape

Work length6:18

Shani Diluka (soloist)

Gershwin: I Love Porgy

Work length5:10

Shani Diluka (soloist)

Bernstein: Interlude

Work length1:35

Shani Diluka (soloist)

Hyung-ki Joo: Chandeliers

Work length6:25

Shani Diluka (soloist)

Ginastera: Danzas Argentinas: Danza de la moza donosa

Work length3:23

Shani Diluka (soloist)

Bernstein: For Aaron Copland (from Seven Anniversaries)

Work length1:05

Shani Diluka (soloist)

Copland: Piano Blues No. 1 “ For Leo Smit ”

Work length2:21

Shani Diluka (soloist)

Evans, B: Peace Piece

Work length7:04

Shani Diluka (soloist)

Gershwin: Love Walked In

Work length4:27

Shani Diluka (soloist)

Porter, C: What Is This Thing Called Love

Work length4:09

Natalie Dessay (soloist), Shani Diluka (soloist)

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Like Jack Kerouac, when he took to the American road, on the legendary Route 66, this Mirare cd hosts a programme as a specific musical path through the United States geographically and musically, "East of my youth, west of my future" (Kerouac).

Shani Diluka has made some new discoveries: Amy Beach, composer of genius; Percy Grainger, who became American by vocation; a world premiere by Hyung-ki Joo, whose 'Chandeliers' was composed in New York after September 11; the hypnotic meditations of John Adams, John Cage and Philip Glass; the South American-influenced Bernstein, Copland and Ginastera; and the intimate link between Gershwin and jazz that inspired Bill Evans or Keith Jarrett. To conclude this journey, Natalie Dessay gives us her unique presence in a new arrangement of Cole Porter composed especially for this disc by Raphael Merlin of the Ebene Quartet.

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May 2014

Diluka's deft elegant playing displays equal affinity with all styles and approaches.

June 2014

Diluka brings appreciable nuance and delicacy to Adams's China Gates and Beach's Young Birches, and infuses the churning minimalist patterns of Glass's Etude No. 9 with more dynamic and colourist range than one often hears from so-called contemporary music specialists.

April 2014

Shani Diluka is another pianist with excellent command of her chosen repertoire … the whole concept is highly convincing.

25th March 2014

Shani Diluka’s eclectic new recital of American music is addictively good … John Adams’ meditative China Gates has never been played better … Diluka’s playing is consistently - I wish there were a more descriptive word - flawless. Exquisite.

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