This album was recorded at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Alberta, Canada, amidst the Canadian Rocky Mountains.
Composer Biography
Rudepoêma by Heitor Villa-Lobos, a Brazilian composer, was dedicated to his close friend, the Polish pianist Arthur Rubinstein, whose nickname 'Rude' is incorporated into the title.
Composer's Artistic Vision
The album's pieces reflect the composers' internal and external worlds, representing their human stance towards their context, which the performer sees as a landscape.
Compositional Technique
Olivier Messiaen's Le Merle bleu (The Blue Rock Thrush) from his Catalogue d'oiseaux explores the blue color of the bird and its dialogue with the sea, reflecting human awe towards nature.
Compositional Technique
Heitor Villa-Lobos's Rudepoêma (Savage Poem) features unusual writing and playing techniques for its time, including overtones and multiple rhythms, making the piano sound like indigenous Brazilian instruments.
Compositional Technique
Samir Odeh-Tamimi's Skiá (Shadow) uses immediate shifts between registers and jumps between moods to create an impression of an object that is hard to grasp, expanding the element of time.
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