Holly Roadfeldt - Kirk O'Riordan: Autumn Winds (2020)
Holly Roadfeldt - Kirk O'Riordan: Autumn Winds (2020)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 215 MB | Tracks: 21 | 68:39 min
Style: Classical | Label: Ravello Records
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 215 MB | Tracks: 21 | 68:39 min
Style: Classical | Label: Ravello Records
New from Ravello Records comes AUTUMN WINDS, a collection of chamber music composed by Kirk O’Riordan. The music, which features pianist and PARMA recording artist Holly Roadfeldt along with soprano Ann Moss and Peter Dutilly playing viola, is as challenging as it is alluring; O’Riordan takes listeners to the outskirts of tonality in order to elucidate questions of beauty, existence, and mortality.
The first piece, Four Beautiful Songs, explores competing notions of attraction. It is the only piece featuring all three performers. A brazen, dissonant cluster of tones from the piano opens the curtain on this provocative performance, with Moss’s soprano line sung above a frantic accompaniment. The piece juxtaposes the rush of infatuation with the bitterness of rejection. Next is Prayer Stones, a marked departure from the first. The viola embarks on a series of short meditations over the piano, as if gently palming a sacred stone while contemplating the ineffable cosmos. Autumn Winds comes next—a setting of 15 haikus by Japanese poet Matsuo Basho. Each movement, only minutes long, reflects upon the phrase “autumn winds,” each time reinterpreting its meaning. The collection concludes with Beautiful Nightmares, a minimalistic take on the serialism of Schoenberg that portrays the transcendent surrealism of the dream world.
Lovers of early 20th century art music will no doubt take great pleasure in Kirk O’Riordan’s AUTUMN WINDS, but they are far from the only ones who will; O’Riordan’s music will fire the imagination of all those fascinated by life, language, and the distinct challenge of expressing poetry and poetic themes in song.
Tracklist:
01. 4 Beautiful Songs: No. 1, Ode on :Ode on a Grecian Urn:
02. 4 Beautiful Songs: No. 2, The Age of Beauty
03. 4 Beautiful Songs: No. 3, Even If
04. 4 Beautiful Songs: No. 4, The Blouse
05. Prayer Stones
06. Autumn Winds: No. 1, All Night Autumn
07. Autumn Winds: No. 2, Autumn Wind Broken
08. Autumn Winds: No. 3, Autumn Winds
09. Autumn Winds: No. 4, Autumn Wind
10. Autumn Winds: No. 5, Bright Red
11. Autumn Winds: No. 6, Speaking Out
12. Autumn Winds: No. 7, Autumn Wind
13. Autumn Winds: No. 8, Blowing Stones
14. Autumn Winds: No. 9, Though Autumn Winds Blow
15. Autumn Winds: No. 10, With What Kind of Voice
16. Autumn Winds: No. 11, Spiders
17. Autumn Winds: No. 12, An Autumn Wind
18. Autumn Winds: No. 13, Shake, Oh Grave!
19. Autumn Winds: No. 14, Tremble, Oh My Grave-Mound
20. Autumn Winds: No. 15, Shaking the Grave
21. Beautiful Nightmares
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