Shades of Night

Barber, Samuel, Bartok, Bela, Beethoven, Ludwig van, Brahms, Johannes, Chopin, Fryderyk, Couperin, François, Debussy, Claude, Hindemith, Paul, różni kompozytorzy, Schumann, Robert

Brownell, Andrew

DDA 25233

These works explore the “otherness” of night and its potential for strangeness. The album also focusses on the theme of passion, mostly from the Romantic period.

In the especially fertile imaginations of the 19th-century Romantic composers, this was a time when, shielded from the gaze of the Almighty, the world gave itself over to mystery and magic: lovers met for forbidden trysts, revelers drank and cavorted through the small hours, and spirits walked the earth. In this album, Brownell hopes to transport you out of our sterile, modern understanding of night and into the stranger, more interesting reality it must have been for most of human history.

Works:

•Barber: Nocturne, Op. 33
•Bartók: Out of Doors Sz81: No.4: Night Music
•Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2 ‘Moonlight': Adagio sostenuto
•Chopin: Nocturne No. 8 in D flat major, Op. 27 No. 2
•Chopin: Nocturne No. 13 in C minor, Op. 48 No. 1
•Couperin, F: Le rossignol-en-amour (from Pièces de clavecin III: Ordre 14ème in D major)
•Couperin, F: Pièces de clavecin III: Ordre 14ème in D major: Double du rossignol
•Debussy: Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l'air du soir (from Préludes - Book 1)
•Debussy: Suite bergamasque: Clair de lune
•Hindemith: Nachtstuck aus der Suite 1922, Op. 26
•Liebermann, L: Nocturne No. 5, Op. 55
•Schumann: In der Nacht, Op. 12 No. 5

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Divine Art

3/1/23

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