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Bruce Levingston - Without Words (2023)

Posted By: delpotro
Date: 20 Sep 2023 10:56:33
Bruce Levingston - Without Words (2023)

Bruce Levingston - Without Words (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 189 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 170 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:12:38
Classical | Label: Sono Luminus

Mendelssohn’s Songs without Words simply defy ordinary description. Refined and nuanced, they constitute some of the composer’s finest and best-known works. For nearly two hundred years, they were regarded as charming relics, select romantic gems performed in small concert halls and salons. While their subtle, ornamental qualities certainly shine brightest in more intimate settings, closer inspection reveals an unexpected depth and complexity to these miniature masterpieces. Their interpretive and technical demands are considerable, requiring sensitivity to voicing, pedaling and dynamic control. Meant to enchant rather than dazzle, they evoke myriad dreams revealing some of the composer’s innermost reflections. Like private entries in a musical diary, they offer a rare glimpse into this reserved but passionate artist’s thoughts.

In recent years, Mendelssohn’s Songs without Words lived on my piano. Amidst turbulent societal change, these moving works remain a source of solace and peace. At the height of the pandemic, Dr. Kirk Payne – an old high school friend treating Covid patients - reached out. He wished to fund a beautiful memorial to those lost and those fighting the disease. With his generous support, I commissioned Price Walden, a longtime admirer of Mendelssohn’s Songs without Words, to compose a new set that would reflect upon our own era. Hearing Walden’s seven splendid pieces, I selected fourteen of the finest works from Mendelssohn’s collection—seven to precede the new cycle and seven to follow.

A superb watercolorist, Mendelssohn displays his mastery of line and color throughout these exquisite tone poems. Resonant with allusions to many of Mendelssohn’s Songs without Words, Walden’s cycle ventures beyond its source to imagine a new and inspired tonal canvas. Through their music, both composers - in conversation across centuries - explore the realms of memory, nature, joy, anguish, loss, gratitude, and love— eloquently communicating in a shared language too definite for words.
Tracklist:
01. Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 102, No. 4 in G minor
02. Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 67, No. 3 in B-flat major
03. Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 38, No. 2 in C minor
04. Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 38, No. 6 in A-flat major "Duetto"
05. Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 102, No. 3 in C major
06. Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 53, No. 1 in A-flat major
07. Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 30, No. 6 in F-sharp minor "Venetianisches Gondellied"
08. Walden: Song without Words No.1 "Prelude"
09. Walden: Song without Words No. 2 "for the left hand"
10. Walden: Song without Words No. 3 "Love Song - Duet"
11. Walden: Song without Words No. 4 "Berceuse"
12. Walden: Song without Words No. 5 "Elegy"
13. Walden: Song without Words No. 6 "Protest"
14. Walden: Song without Words No. 7 "Lullaby"
15. Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op.19, No. 2 in A minor
16. Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op.19, No.1 in E major
17. Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 19, No. 5 in F-sharp minor
18. Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 19, No 6. in G minor "Venetianisches Gondellied"
19. Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 62, No. 1 in G major
20. Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 67, No. 5 in B minor
21. Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 85, No. 4 in D major

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