Ancient Letters
Music for piano and orchestra, and piano solo, by Elena Kats-Chernin
Tamara-Anna Cislowska (piano)
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
Johannes Fritzsch (conductor)
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From ARIA Award-winning pianist Tamara-Anna Cislowska: music by Australia’s favourite composer, Elena Kats-Chernin. Two new concertos: Ancient Letters, inspired by personal letters written 1700 years ago by an abandoned woman on the Silk Road near Samarkand, and Lebewohl, imagining the grief experienced by the great composer Bach when he returned home from a 6-week trip to find his wife, Maria Barbara, dead and buried. Plus a new version of Elena’s most popular track, "Eliza Aria", for piano and orchestra.
TRACK LIST
1 Eliza Aria (Version for piano and orchestra)
Ancient Letters
2 I. Tiger Cub
3 IIa. Musk
4 IIb. Trade
5 III. Goodbye Samarkand
Piano Concerto No. 3 ‘Lebewohl’
6 I. the deep and bitter flood
7 II. …behind night and clouds
8 III. you thunderous word
9 IV. so aflame in love
10 V. allow, princess, allow just one ray beam
11 Prelude Machine
12 Bach Prelude
13 1720
Artists
Tamara-Anna Cislowska (piano)
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
Johannes Fritzsch (conductor)
ABC Classics CD
ABCL0118