Bartók, Schnittke & Lutoslawski: Music For Violin And Piano

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Cuckson and her stage-fellow Blair McMillen sound almost as though they had this music in their blood…they manage to sound assertive but not unkempt, ponderous but not lugubrious, bringing plenty... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2016 More…

Release Date: 22nd Apr 2016
Catalogue No: 4811788
Label: ECM
Series: New Series
Length: 62 minutes

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Bartók: Violin Sonata No. 2, BB 85, Sz. 76

Work length21:44

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Miranda Cuckson (violin), Blair McMillen (piano)
Recorded: 2015-01-05
Recording Venue: Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano

1. Molto moderato

Track length8:48

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2. Allegretto

Track length12:56

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Schnittke: Sonata No. 2 For Violin And Piano (Quasi Una Sonata)

Work length22:37

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Miranda Cuckson (violin), Blair McMillen (piano)
Recorded: 2015-01-05
Recording Venue: Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano

Lutosławski: Partita for violin & piano

Work length17:40

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Miranda Cuckson (violin), Blair McMillen (piano)
Recorded: 2015-01-05
Recording Venue: Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano

1. Allegro giusto

Track length4:10

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2. Ad libitum

Track length1:10

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3. Largo

Track length7:12

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4. Ad libitum

Track length0:50

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5. Presto

Track length4:18

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After appearing on Vijay Iyer’s first album on ECM (‘Mutations’ ), the New York-based violinist Miranda Cuckson now makes her own debut on ECM New Series – alongside pianist Blair McMillen – with pieces by Lutoslawski, Bartók, and Schnittke.

The New York Times has praised Miranda Cuckson’s “undeniable musicality,” while Gramophone has declared her “an artist to be reckoned with”. Born in Australia and educated in America, she been one of the most sought-after performers of contemporary music in recent years. Her repertoire here consists of three 20th-century milestones: the Hungarian Béla Bartók’s Violin Sonata No. 2 (1922), the Russian Alfred Schnittke’s Violin Sonata No. 2 ‘Quasi una Sonata’ (1968) and the Pole Witold Lutoslawski’s Partita for Violin and Piano (1984).

“Bringing these great Slavic composers together enables us to hear each dealing with the dichotomies of form and spontaneity, playfulness and seriousness, folk expression and abstraction,” Cuckson explains. “The colours and traits of Slavic ethnic music are vibrantly in the foreground in Bartók’s music, more subsumed into abstraction and flavour in the Schnittke and Lutoslawski. Humour is a tool of provocation and survival in Schnittke and to some extent Lutoslawski, a cheeky attitude anchored by deep purpose. In Bartók, the boisterousness and teasing charm of folk dances gives way to moods of profound melancholy.”

Miranda Cuckson has released nine lauded solo/duo CDs, including music by Hersch, Shapey, Xenakis, Haas, Martino and concertos by Korngold and Ponce. Her recording of Luigi Nono’s “La lontananza nostalgica utopica futura” for violin and electronics was named a Best Classical Recording of 2012 by the New York Times.

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September 2016

Cuckson and her stage-fellow Blair McMillen sound almost as though they had this music in their blood…they manage to sound assertive but not unkempt, ponderous but not lugubrious, bringing plenty of dignity, in particular to the creepy opening…[this] is a propulsive, urgent, dizzyingly virtuoso performance

5th May 2016

all composers who loved the jostle between wit and weight, spirit and logic, raw emotion and modernism. Cuckson and pianist Blair McMillen end up delivering less cheeky attitude and more of the deep purpose: their playing is frank and urgent

Bartók, Schnittke & Lutoslawski: Music For Violin And Piano

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