Solitary, by Jacob Greenberg

Solitary

by Jacob Greenberg

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1.	Gyorgy Kurtag: Selections from Jatekok, Book 5: (...lovely greetings from Grete Spinnrad) 00:30	buy track
2.	Gyorgy Kurtag: Selections from Jatekok, Book 5: Bell-Fanfare for Sandor Veress 00:49	buy track
3.	Gyorgy Kurtag: Selections from Jatekok, Book 5: Capriccioso- luminoso (for Jeno Szervansky's 80th birthday) 00:27	buy track
4.	Gyorgy Kurtag: Selections from Jatekok, Book 5: Flowers we are... 00:53	buy track
5.	Gyorgy Kurtag: Selections from Jatekok, Book 5: The little squall 00:28	buy track
6.	Gyorgy Kurtag: Selections from Jatekok, Book 5: ... flowers also the stars... 00:37	buy track
7.	Gyorgy Kurtag: Selections from Jatekok, Book 5: An apocryhal hymn 02:47	buy track
8.	Gyorgy Kurtag: Selections from Jatekok, Book 5: The girl with the flaxen hair - enraged 01:19	buy track
9.	Gyorgy Kurtag: Selections from Jatekok, Book 5: Fanfares 00:43	buy track
10.	Gyorgy Kurtag: Selections from Jatekok, Book 5: Farewell to Pal Kadosa 01:17	buy track
11.	W.A. Mozart: Rondo in A minor, K. 511 10:45	buy track
12.	Arnold Schoenberg: Suite for Piano, op. 25: Praeludium 00:55	buy track
13.	Arnold Schoenberg: Suite for Piano, op. 25: Gavotte 01:16	buy track
14.	Arnold Schoenberg: Suite for Piano, op. 25: Musette: Gavotte da Capo 02:44	buy track
15.	Arnold Schoenberg: Suite for Piano, op. 25: Intermezzo 04:04	buy track
16.	Arnold Schoenberg: Suite for Piano, op. 25: Minuett and Trio 03:49	buy track
17.	Arnold Schoenberg: Suite for Piano, op. 25: Gigue 02:54	buy track
18.	Jacob Greenberg: Lied ohne Worte nach Rilke 04:31	buy track
19.	Robert Schumann: Gesange der Fruhe, op. 133: I. Im ruhigen Tempo 02:28	buy track
20.	Robert Schumann: Gesange der Fruhe, op. 133: II. Belebt, nicht zu rasch 01:50	buy track
21.	Robert Schumann: Gesange der Fruhe, op. 133: III. Lebhaft 02:39	buy track
22.	Robert Schumann: Gesange der Fruhe, op. 133: IV. Bewegt 02:35	buy track
23.	Robert Schumann: Gesange der Fruhe, op. 133: V. Im Anfange ruhiges, im Verlauf bewegteres Tempo 03:29	buy track

about

Solitary is a collection of solo piano works written during periods of extreme isolation and creative austerity in the respective composers' lives. The recording, Jacob Greenberg's debut full length cd, features works by Kurtag, Schoenberg, Mozart, Schumann, and Jacob himself. The solo piano's introspective and solitary sound glues the diverse program together here, as does Jacob's hauntingly beautiful playing. There is something so intimate and cerebral about the sound of the piano, a sound that sheds the visceral qualities of vibrato and overt timbral differentiation, that a recital program such as this one can feel as if it takes place all within the inner life of the mind, even as it covers vast expressive territory.

credits

released April 1, 2010

Recorded 12/2008, 1/2009 and 1/2010, Sweeney Hall, Smith College, Massachusetts

Executive Producer: Jacob Greenberg
Session producers: Ryan Streber (all tracks), Daniel Lippel (Kurtag, Mozart), Kivie Cahn-Lipman (Schumann), Claire Chase (Schoenberg, Schumann)
Recording engineer, Digital Editing, Post-Production: Ryan Streber
Design: Jill Malek
Photography: Jacob Greenberg, Rebekah Heller

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New Focus Recordings New York, New York

New Focus Recordings is an artist led collective label featuring releases in contemporary music of many stripes, as well as new approaches to older repertoire. The label was founded by guitarist Daniel Lippel (who is the current director), composer engineer Ryan Streber, and composer Peter Gilbert in 2003-4, and features releases from many of new music's most active performers and composers. ... more