Time Present and Time Past
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C.P.E. BACH / GORECKI / GEMINIANI / REICH / etc
Time Present and Time Past
Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord) / Concerto Koln
[ Archiv / CD ]
Release Date: Saturday 20 June 2015
Mahan Esfahani's new album"Time Present and Time Past" is an eclectic programme fusing Baroque with Minimalism - and the first harpsichord album DG has released in over 30 years!
Gramophone Award winner Mahan explores the relationship between two musical genres which are 300 years apart, yet emphasizing its similarities by playing all pieces on period instruments - which has never been done before with the Reich and Gorecki pieces.
"If you buy only one record of harpsichord music in your life...buy this sensational album...he emerges as a superstar whose musicianship, imagination, virtuosity, cultural breadth and charisma far transcends the ivory tower in which the harpsichord has traditionally been placed." (Times)
"Equating minimalism and baroque music is not new, but Esfahani, always a sparky and searching player, juxtaposes them here so as to create an unusually direct link...[the Reich] the harpsichord creates new textures and effects, including moments when the music seems to leap out in 3D." (The Guardian)
"Esfahani sails through with tasteful bravura...[his] firmly centred articulation and rhythm make a plausible case for Steve Reich's Piano Phase as a harpsichord vehicle, even if one misses the cumulative effect of the piano's resonance." (Gramophone)
Tracks:
Bach, C P E:
Twelve Variationen über die Folie d'Espagne, Wq118/9/H263
Bach, J S:
Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in D minor, BWV1052
Concerto Köln
Geminiani:
Concerto grosso in D minor, Op. 6
Concerto Köln
Gorecki:
Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings, Op. 40
Concerto Köln
Reich:
Piano Phase
for Two Pianos (version for harpsichord)
Scarlatti, A:
Variations On 'La Folia'
