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Warsaw, June 28,
2021
AMERICAN SONATAS FOR
VIOLIN AND PIANO
(IVES, COPLAND, CORIGLIANO)
ADAM BRUDEREK/ VIOLIN
ANNA PRABUCKA-FIRLEJ/PIANO
REFLECTION
- I delight in this recording, both in its
content and performance.
- After listening to it, John Corigliano,
sent the following message to the performers: Thank you so much for sending
me this wonderful new recording of my Sonata for violin and piano. I was
greatly impressed with Anna and Adam’s virtuosic and highly musical rendering
of this very difficult work. They both have superb techniques and express the
lyricism in the piece so beautifully. I could not ask for more. How much I
loved their performance!
- Such opinion expressed by a
contemporary, active composer is a dream come true for any music
performer. How happy the composer must
have been, to be able to give feedback
on the recording of his work and to
evaluate it. How lucky are the performers in whose hearts and memories such a
reflection can be etched with diamond letters.
- I am not afraid to present my personal reflections (which are
by no means evaluations or reviews!),
and I take full responsibility for them.
- Both performers of these Sonatas are
grand masters. I admire their partnership which is my treasured concept. It felt that it was the fulfillment of my intimate expectations: although two artists were performing, I as a
listener, perceived them as one, playing
two instruments.
- For my personal convenience, I like to use the term ethnic. Not in
the literal, customary sense, but as a more spiritual notion of sorts. My
sensibility sees the mental climate of a
Yankee composer as different from a European one. And so, it should be.
Therefore, I waited with great interest
for my impressions after listening to
the CD. And I got what I expected: These are American Sonatas! This is American
music, in the best sense of the term! I would not in any way undertake to
justify this feeling, but it was close to fascination.
- I love my
private concept of ethnicity which I can hear not only in Piazzola's
tangos, Prokofiev's chastushkas, or even in Elgar's Brutishness. It is so
delightful that this multicolor palette is so natural and possible in music. Ah, if
only it were possible in religion and politics!
- One more thing before the conclusion. The
two performers, Anna and Adam, as John affectionately calls them in his
American style, belong to that rare caste whose members have mastered the
instruments to the extent that they are able to
sing the music, and not just
present an instrumental show.
- A beautiful album!!! Great praise
to DUX for the idea of publishing
such a sophisticated repertoire, for the natural sound of both instruments,
i.e., the violin sounds like a violin and the piano sounds like a piano, and
for the splendid booklet, with a clever and comprehensive discussion by the
Author.
Prof. Jerzy
Marchwiński
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