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Canon And Gigue In D Major P.37  Johann Pachelbel

Cellist Péter Somodari and pianist Nicolas Costantinou present Hedra, an album that takes the listener through key repertoire for cello and piano, from sonatas by Beethoven and Debussy and individual pieces by Fauré to a world-premiere recording of the Cello Sonata No. 1 by contemporary Greek Cypriot composer Contantinou Y. Stylianou. 

The word ‘hedra’ (Greek: ἕδρα) refers to any side or face of a three-dimensional geometric shape. Any given face is not only connected to its neighbours, but together they contribute to and are part of the final shape. Similarly, every musical masterpiece is interconnected with those that follow, as it inevitably contributed to their formation, and this is reflected in the relationship between the works gathered together on this release. Beethoven pioneered the modern cello sonata, and from first to last his five cello sonatas chart a huge development in the genre. The Fourth, as recorded on this album, spans dark chromaticism, improvisatory freedom and extrovert exuberance in a manner that paved the way for later composers. 

Fauré’s amiable Sicilienne was composed as part of the incidental music for Molière's play, Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, while his Élégie was originally conceived as the slow movement of an abandoned cello sonata. The Élégie was described by composer Patrick Castillo as honouring “grief as a multifaceted thing”, relating it to this album’s theme. Written late in his life while he struggled with illness and the impact of the First World War, Debussy’s Cello Sonata is founded on principles inherited from Beethoven and his contemporaries; Debussy said that his sonatas were composed “in the old supple forms (without the bombast of modern sonatas)”, and that the Cello Sonata is “almost Classical in the best sense of the word”.  

Stylianou’s Sonata for Cello and Piano in C major is a further continuation of the question of the sonata form and whether it is still relevant today. The work was composed during spring 2020 and in the words of the composer: “I decided to channel all the fear and frustration of the pandemic in creating a work that deals with those aforementioned questions but in a personal way. It would be impossible to avoid feelings of that period seeping into the work, but at the same time, I wanted it to be a creation in pursuit of inner balance, which is after all what the sonata form is meant to be. Whatever the opposition of two musical ideas (or more) might be, in the end, it must find a resolution of some sort.”

Péter Somodari and Nicolas Costantinou have been performing together since their student days. Currently serving as the principal cellist of both the Vienna State Opera and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Péter Somodari has collaborated with such artists as Leonidas Kavakos, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Alexei Lubimov, Truls Mørk, Miklós Perényi, Boris Pergamenschikow, Christian Tetzlaff, Tabea Zimmermann, composer György Kurtág, and the Toyota Orchestra. He is currently a visiting professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna

A regular collaborator with Odradek Records, Steinway Artist Nicolas Costantinou has a doctorate from the Royal College of Music in London and is renowned for impressing audiences with his daring selection of repertoire old and new. Costantinou has previously recorded the music of Constantinos Y. Stylianou on the Odradek releases Metavasis and Past Forward. Stylianou studied and now lives in London, and his music has been performed by the Philharmonia, Bruckner Symphony Orchestra, Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, Jeunesses Musicales World Orchestra and the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra, in prestigious venues such as Wigmore Hall in London, the King’s Theatre in Edinburgh, St David's Hall in Cardiff, Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Beethoven-Haus in Bonn, ORF concert hall in Vienna, Megaron Concert Hall in Athens, the UNESCO Headquarters and the Cathédrale Saint-Louis des Invalides in Paris.

Gabriel Faure - Sicilienne, Op. 78

Frédéric Chopin - Étude In C-Sharp Minor, Op. 10, No. 4

Passacaglia for Violin and Viola - Johan Halvorsen (slowed+reverb)

Mendelssohn - String Quartet No. 6 In F Minor, Op. 80 - I. Allegro Vivace Assai

Para Peques 3

Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66, Act I: No. 6, Valse "Garland Dance"

Ludwig van Beethoven_Coriolan' Overture Op. 62

Liebesleid (Love's Sorrow) - Fritz Kreisler

V014-Antonio Vivaldi – The Four Seasons Concerto No. 3 In F Major, RV 293, Autumn II. Adagio molto

Frédéric Chopin -- Nocturne in E-flat Major Op. 9 No. 2

Performed by the MBHS Chamber Orchestra
Spring Orchestra Concert
MBHS Auditorium
Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Suite for String Orchestra by Leos Janacek - Movement IV. Presto

Polonaise No.6 "Héroïque" in A-flat major, Op. 53 / Frédéric Chopin

* About Heroic Polonaise:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polonaise_in_A-flat_major,_Op._53

* Performance:
  Kiyotsugu Arai, Jan. 10, 2018

* Released recordings:
  https://www.tunecore.co.jp/artist?id=41960&lang=en

Polonaise No.6 "Héroïque" in A-flat major, Op. 53 / Frédéric Chopin

Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 9, Op. 47 "Kreutzer" - Pärt: Fratres - Shostakovich: Preludes

Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Major, Op. 47 "Kreutzer": I. Adagio sostenuto - Presto (feat. Nicolaas Kende)

Liszt: Sonata in B Minor and Grandes études de Paganini

Grandes études de Paganini, S.141: III. No. III in G-Sharp Minor ‘La Campanella’

Moments With Classics

Prelude No. 2 In C Minor, BWV 847 (The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1) by Johann Sebastian Bach

Mathematics teacher.  Classical pianist.

Concordia College '15 - Mathematics, Education, Music


Frédéric Chopin - Étude In C-Sharp Minor, Op. 10, No. 4

Kurt Haag

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