Maya Fridman & Daniël Kool - The Invisible Link 2015

Исполнитель: Maya Fridman & Daniël Kool
Альбом: The Invisible Link
Жанр: Classical, Chamber Music
Год: 2015
Страна: International
Лейбл: TRPTK
Формат: DSD
Контейнер: DSF (*.dsf)
Тип рипа: tracks
Разрядность: 64 (2,8 MHz/1 Bit)
Аудиокодек: DSD (2.0)
Количество каналов: 2.0
Размер: 1,7 GB
Источник: highresaudio
Залито на: XFile (tracks+ Booklet)

This album discusses the invisible connection between Alfred Schnittke, Pēteris Vasks and Arvo Pärt, and my personal connection with them. It explores three pieces, each written approximately at the end of the 1970s, during the period of the Soviet Union.

History always creates an imprint on the composers’ output. However, apart from a possible historical link between Schnittke, Vasks and Pärt one might imagine, I felt something more than that. In these three pieces, I felt a sense of timelessness and an urge for an ultimate truth, to be explored through a juxtaposition of extreme emotions, and found in the musical representation of silence.

When I heard Schnittke’s Sonata for Cello and Piano for the very first time, I envisioned an endless circle of birth and death, with a quick disastrous gallop of life in between. This sonata has had a deep and transformative influence on me, and it epitomized to me what I was looking for in music: the experience of catharsis.

To me, the music of Vasks has a certain resolute force of veracity as told straight from the heart, a truth that can only be found through investigating the biggest opposites: peace through unrest, light through darkness. The Book, in its two movements, is about one’s voice emerging and elevating above the turmoil of one’s psychological reality.

Fratres feels to me like two brothers going through life, side by side. One frantically and emotionally trying to grasp the secrets of life and death, the other ever so still and stable, providing a frame of reason for his sibling. One brother as the instant, the other portraying eternity, and the two of them represent the perpetual struggle within oneself.

The Invisible Link is not only about the invisible connection between Alfred Schnittke, Pēteris Vasks, and Arvo Pärt, or about the relationship between the three pieces. It is about the invisible link connecting the purest and most extreme of emotions, with the everlasting stillness of time itself.

"I wished to record the first Sonata of Alfred Schnittke, “The Book” of Pēteris Vasks, and Arvo Pärt‘s “Fratres”, because I feel a deep connection with and admiration for their music.

Here, I found what I was longing for, an answer, or a vision… That is why it became so crucial for me to express it.

It started with the Sonata of Schnittke, which I wanted to perform and record for a long time, because I love his music, his spirit, his extreme honesty. A feeling that I had for the music of Arvo Pärt and Pēteris Vasks led me to the decision to record their pieces as well. In the process of working with and developing my ideas about these pieces, I discovered a very particular spiritual bond between these three pieces. As if I opened a book and I can now understand everything, yet can not describe this invisible link in my conciousness in words.

Maybe it is not necessary… The music can speak for itself." (Maya Fridman)

Трэклист:

Alfred Schnittke (1934 - 1998): Sonata No. 1 for Cello and Piano, Op. 129:

01. Sonata for cello and piano, Op. 129 (Alfred Schnittke): I. Largo
02. Sonata for cello and piano, Op. 129 (Alfred Schnittke): II. Presto
03. Sonata for cello and piano, Op. 129 (Alfred Schnittke): III. Largo

Pēteris Vasks (1946 - ): Grāmata Čellam "The Book" for Cello Solo:

04. Gramata cellam (Peteris Vasks): I. Fortissimo (Marcatissimo)
05. Gramata cellam (Peteris Vasks): II. Pianissimo (Dolcissimo)

Arvo Pärt (1935 - ):

06. Fratres for Cello and Piano (Arvo Part): Fratres for cello and piano

Maya Fridman, cello
Daniël Kool, piano

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Maya Fridman
Born in 1989 in Moscow, Russia, Maya Fridman is a talented young artist residing in The Netherlands.

From her early years of playing the cello, Maya was recognised as a prodigy and was taken under the hood of the Foundation of Yuri Bashmet, where she took part in various TV and Radio programs. While studying at the Moscow State College of Music named after Alfred Schnittke, she was awarded as the First Prize Winner in the International Festival of Slavic Music among many other reputable awards.

In 2010, Maya has been granted admission at the Conservatory of Amsterdam where she studied under professor Dmitry Ferschtman. Here, on the 10th of June in 2016, she successfully finished a Master’s Degree with the highest honours, Cum Laude.

For the last seven years, Maya has been performing regularly in The Netherlands and Germany. Due to her vast musical interests, she always had a passion for improvisation and playing diverse musical styles.

Each of her solo programs has a strong emotional impact on the audience and presents great works of the last century, as well as completely new works of contemporary composers. She was awarded Best Musician of 2013 Prize at De Grote Prijs van Nederland.

Maya’s projects include successful collaborations with Jyoti Verhoeff, Aeon Trio (with Atzko Kohashi and Frans van der Hoeven), Tomoko Mukaiyama, and many more. During 2015 and 2016, she accompanied guitar virtuoso Harry Sacksioni on his Jubileum Tour 65, and joined bands such as Faun and Cesair as special guest.

She toured with Asko|Schönbergs K[h]AOS, Noord Nederlands Toneel and Club Guy & Roni in the productions Carroussel (2017) & Salam (2018).

During the Cello Biënnale 2016, Maya performed in the role of Margarita in the musical theatre adaptation of The Master and Margarita directed by Dagmar Slagmolen, where she played together with cellist Kian Soltani.

In 2015, Maya released her first album The Invisible Link, featuring works of Alfred Schnittke, Pēteris Vasks, and Arvo Pärt, which she recorded together with pianist Daniël Kool, under the label TRPTK.

In 2017, she released two more albums: Elegy by Æon Trio with Atzko Kohashi and Frans van der Hoeven, and Red Velvet, a solo recording featuring works by Karen Tanaka, César Lüttger, Gaspar Cassadó, Oswaldo Golijov, Louis Andriessen, Kaveh Vares, and Alisa Apreleva.

Her latest album features her own arrangement of Prokofiev’s opera The Fiery Angel for cello and piano, on which she worked together with pianist Artem Belogurov.

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