Into Silence

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The ‘chillax’-style packaging sells this short. While moments such as Vasks’s Balta ainava do have a mesmeric quality, Górecki’s Piano Concerto and Pärt’s Passacaglia are livelier. — BBC Music Magazine, February 21018, 4 out of 5 stars

Release Date: 3rd Nov 2017
Catalogue No: ABC4816295
Label: ABC Classics
Length: 91 minutes

Pelecis: Concertino Bianco

Work length15:23

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Tamara-Anna Cislowska (piano)
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
Johannes Fritzsch
Recorded: 2017

1. Con intenerimento

Track length6:15

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2. Con venerazione

Track length6:23

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3. Con anima

Track length2:45

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Vasks: Gadalaiki

Work length5:52

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Tamara-Anna Cislowska (piano)
Recorded: 2017

5. Vasaras vakara mūzika

Track length5:52

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Vasks: Cantabile for String Orchestra

Work length9:25

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Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
Johannes Fritzsch
Recorded: 2017

Pärt: Spiegel im Spiegel

Work length8:24

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Tamara-Anna Cislowska (piano)
Recorded: 2017

Gorecki: Three Pieces in Olden Style

Work length9:15

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Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
Johannes Fritzsch
Recorded: 2017

1. (Untitled)

Track length2:39

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2. (Untitled)

Track length2:02

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3. (Untitled)

Track length4:34

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Vasks: Gadalaiki

Work length9:02

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Tamara-Anna Cislowska (piano)
Recorded: 2017

1. Baltā ainava

Track length9:02

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Gorecki: Piano Concerto, Op. 40

Work length8:12

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Tamara-Anna Cislowska (piano)
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
Johannes Fritzsch
Recorded: 2017

1. Allegro molto

Track length4:30

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2. Vivace marcatissimo

Track length3:42

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Pärt: Passacaglia

Work length4:14

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Tamara-Anna Cislowska (piano), Ike See (violin)
Recorded: 2017

Pärt: Pari intervallo

Work length5:01

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Tamara-Anna Cislowska (piano)
Recorded: 2017

Pelecis: All In The Past (Remembering Oskar Strock)

Work length3:21

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Emma McGrath (violin)
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
Johannes Fritzsch
Recorded: 2017

Pärt: Für Alina

Work length2:31

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Tamara-Anna Cislowska (piano)
Recorded: 2017

Pärt: Für Anna Maria

Work length1:02

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Tamara-Anna Cislowska (piano)
Recorded: 2017

Pärt: Für Alina

Work length9:14

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Tamara-Anna Cislowska (piano)
Recorded: 2017

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This new recording from Australian label ABC Classics presents beautiful piano music by Vasks, Gorecki, Part and Pelecis - some of it with orchestra, some of it solo piano. The Pelecis concerto that opens the album is almost completely unknown, and stunning.

Tamara-Anna Cislowska's recordings have won, amongst others, the 2015 ARIA Award for Best Classical Album and Gramophone Magazine Editor's Choice.

Absorbing simplicity, transcendent serenity, deep spirituality. Into Silence, the new album from pianist Tamara-Anna Cislowska, immerses us in the sound world of an extraordinary generation of composers from the Baltics: Henryk Górecki (born Poland, 1933), Arvo Pärt (Estonia, 1935), Peteris Vasks (Latvia, 1946) and Georgs Pelcis (Latvia, 1947).

As Europe emerged from the horrors of World War II, Górecki and Pärt were children, while Vasks and Pelcis were soon to be born. All four grew up in Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe, and their music looks back to the trials of the preceding years and speaks with hope of the future, all the while responding to the frost-shrouded landscapes in which it came to life. These composers grappled with cultures in which music was simultaneously highly prized, but bound by strict social and political constraints. From the rare genius of these four men, this set of conditions produced music of astonishing and distinctive beauty, characterised by profound simplicity and a true valuing of the silent.

The album interweaves the intimacy of solo piano with concertos and orchestral works, recorded with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra under Johannes Fritzsch ? himself brought up behind the Iron Curtain.

The music of Georgs Pelecis is an undiscovered gem, barely recorded and almost never heard in the concert hall. His All in the Past, an elegy for violin and orchestra, beguilingly mixes the influence of tango with the styling of the baroque; but it's his sublime Concertino bianco (literally 'Little White Concerto') for piano and orchestra, which opens the album, that is set to take its rightful place as a gem of 20th-century music in this stunning new recording from Cislowska.

Inspired by Gregorian Chant and Orthodox Christianity, the music of Arvo Pärt reaches towards the ancient at the same time as forging new paths in serenity. The use of simple rhythm and stepwise melody that he called 'tintinnabuli' (Latin for 'bell ringing') produced the exquisite Spiegel im Spiegel, and its almost addictive repetitions are shared by his other solo piano works on this album, Pari intervallo and Für Alina.

A wonderful disc of relaxing music to restore peace into your busy life.

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February 21018

The ‘chillax’-style packaging sells this short. While moments such as Vasks’s Balta ainava do have a mesmeric quality, Górecki’s Piano Concerto and Pärt’s Passacaglia are livelier.

Into Silence

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