Nicolas Bacri, a French contemporary composer, deliberately rejected the institutional avant-gardism of the 1950s that prohibited tonality, harmony, and melody.
Compositional Technique
All sonatas on this album, by both Miaskovsky and Bacri, adopt a single-movement form, a structure inaugurated by Liszt's Sonata in B minor, which unifies the work by generating all material from a single thematic cell.
Performer Biography
Sabine Weyer, a Luxembourgish pianist born in 1988, has received international acclaim for her intense, rich, and clear playing, and has recorded four award-winning albums.
Composer Biography
Miaskovsky was a highly respected Professor of Composition at the Moscow Conservatory, where he trained notable composers such as Aram Khachaturian and Dmitry Kabalevsky.
Album & Artwork
The album brings together works by Nikolaï Miaskovsky and Nicolas Bacri, written almost a century apart, yet sharing a hyper-expressive, dark, and tortured emotional climate.
Composer Biography
Nikolaï Miaskovsky, a Russian composer born in 1881, was a fellow student and lifelong friend of Sergei Prokofiev at the St. Petersburg Conservatory.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Bacri's music aims to evoke emotions and touch the listener's heart by utilizing the richness of harmony, tonality, modality, melody, and counterpoint, drawing inspiration from composers like Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, and Shostakovich.
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