Daniela Braun: Anatol Vieru: Piano & Chamber Music - COMPACT DISCS

Title: Anatol Vieru: Piano & Chamber Music
Artist: Daniela Braun
Label: Toccata
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5060113447623
Genre: Classical Artists
Release Date: 2025-05-02
Number of Discs: 1

The music of the Romanian composer Anatol Vieru (1926-98) is an arresting fusion of classical procedures, avant-garde modernism and folk roots; an accent from his Jewish heritage - he narrowly escaped a pogrom in the ghetto of his native Iasi in 1944 - also underlies his musical impulses. These divergent influences fed into a musical language that is simultaneously familiar and intriguingly unconventional, with hypnotic, quasi-minimalist passages rubbing shoulders with bursts of wild, gypsy-like energy. It can likewise encompass both an epic sense of scale and chuckling good humour.

Tracks:
1.1 Piano Trio~I. Quarter note ˜ 72
1.2 Piano Trio~II. Quarter note = 84-88
1.3 Piano Trio~III. Quarter note = 80
1.4 Piano Trio~IV. Half note = 64
1.5 Versete for piano and violin, Op. 116
1.6 Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 140~I. Quarter note ˜ 48-50
1.7 Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 140~II. Dotted Eighth note = 120
1.8 Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 140~III. Quarter note = 40