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Roberto SIERRA (b. 1953) Chamber and Piano Music
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Six Intervening Periods of Time * • Piezas Cortas * • Piezas Íntimas Sonata for Violin and Piano * • Sonata No. 1 for Viola and Piano * Fuego de ángel * Continuum
Cheryl Seltzer and Joel Sachs, Directors * WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING
The music of GRAMMY-nominated and Latin GRAMMY-winning composer, Roberto Sierra, is performed worldwide and has long been admired for its confluence of Caribbean elements and inventive modernist language. The works on this album cover a decade’s worth of composition and examine crucial – the idea of time in music; creative new applications of sonata form with regard to mood, tempo and character; and evocations of images seen through Latin American eyes. Continuum, directed by Cheryl Seltzer and Joel Sachs, has enjoyed a 40-year friendship with Sierra, receiving dedications and premiering numerous of his compositions. Key features: • This is Continuum’s fourth Roberto Sierra disc and celebrates a 40-year musical friendship that began in 1983. •
8.559959 Release date: 11 Apr 2025
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Continuum ’s New Music with a Caribbean Accent (8.559263), was described by MusicWeb International as ‘technically brilliant and highly receptive to the wildly inventive Sierra’. Their recording of Kandinsky and the Clarinet Sonata (8.559849) was also praised by critics: ‘The performances are splendid, the sound clear and bright’ ( Gramophone ); and ‘Sierra’s music is so good, I am confident of giving it a rave review before I’ve heard a single note of the new disc. Indeed, the present disc of chamber and piano works fully lived up to my expectations, so, voila! – the rave’ ( Fanfare ).
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Click to listen to Sonata for Violin and Piano: I. Expresivo
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Fazıl SAY (b. 1970) Violin Concerto No. 2 ‘Spring Mornings in the Days of Quarantine’ 1 String Quartet 2 • Sonata for Solo Violin 3 • Leopards 4 Friedemann Eichhorn, Violin 1, 3 Gropius Quartett 2, 4 Konzerthausorchester Berlin 1 • Christoph Eschenbach 1
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Fazıl Say’s gifts as a ground-breaking pianist are allied to the breadth of his compositions. The Violin Concerto No. 2 was composed in the midst of the Covid-19 lockdown during which Say was enchanted by the colours and textures of sunrises while walking on the beach, inspiring this atmospheric work. Leopards is a vivid piece for string sextet that utilises Say’s unique melodies and rhythms. The Sonata for Solo Violin is an expressive tribute to the noted Turkish violist, Ruşen Günes, while String Quartet ‘Divorce’ relates the experience of separation and the failure of a relationship with the language of music.
8.574502 Release date: 25 Apr 2025 Companion titles – Friedemann Eichhorn, Violin
Click to listen to Violin Concerto No. 2, Op. 87 ‘Karantina günlerinde bahar sabahları’ (‘Spring Mornings in the Days of Quarantine’): II. Dance: Fast jazz swing
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