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Arvo Pärt’s piano works range from his first public statement as a composer, the Zwei Sonatinen, to his latest, the life-affirming miniature Für Anna Maria. Moving away from his 1960s atonal language, Pärt found an essence of truth in music embodied in the simple lines of Für Alina. Lamentate is a vast monument which the composer has described as a lament ‘not for the dead, but for the living’. Multi award-winning pianist Ralph van Raat has been praised for his ‘sensitive and technically refined’ playing of Hans Otte’s Book of Sounds (8572444) (MusicWeb International).
Arvo Part: Piano Sonatine, Op. 1, No. 1
I. Allegro
II. Larghetto - Allegro
Arvo Part: Piano Sonatine, Op. 1, No. 2
I. Allegro energico
II. Largo
III. Allegro
Arvo Part: Partita, Op. 2
I. Toccatina
II. Fughetta
III. Larghetto
IV. Ostinato
Arvo Part: Variationen zur Gesundung von Arinuschka
Variation 1: Moderato
Variation 2
Variation 3
Variation 4: Piu mosso
Variation 5
Variation 6
Arvo Part: Fur Alina (For Alena)
Fur Alina
Arvo Part: Fur Anna Maria
Fur Anna Maria
Arvo Part: Lamentate
Minacciando
Spietato
Fragile
Pregando
Solitudine - stato d'animo
Consolante
Stridendo
Lamentabile
Risolutamente
Fragile e conciliante
25th September 2011
“Marsyas [the Lamentate], is by some way the least successful piece here, an uneasy mix of bombastic, quasi-romantic piano concerto with hazy spirituality...But all the other piano pieces are wonderful: burbling baroque toccatas, hypnotic variations (echoing his Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten) and the pared down Für Anna Maria of 2006, new to disc. Fine playing by Ralph van Raat.”
November 2011
*****
“This is a well-conceived crash-course in significant moments in the development of Pärt's music...With its visceral Romantic gestures convincingly realised by JoAnn Falletta, Lamentate, a reaction to Kapoor's work, is imbued with a sense of anxiety. Dark textures and violent outbursts, recalling Pärt's early avant-garde style, almost conceal the underpinning tintinnabulist matrix.”
December 2011
“Van Raat's playing is convincing throughout.”
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I. Allegro
