African Pianism
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Label: Somm
Cat No: SOMMCD0647
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 18th February 2022
Contents
Works
Egun Variations in G majorEn attente du printemps
Nocturne no.4
Nocturne no.5
Nocturne no.6
Scenes from a South African Childhood
African Pianism: 12 Pedagogical Pieces
Ufie (Igbo Dance)
Artists
Rebeca Omordia (piano)Abdelkader Saadoun (percussion)
Works
Egun Variations in G majorEn attente du printemps
Nocturne no.4
Nocturne no.5
Nocturne no.6
Scenes from a South African Childhood
African Pianism: 12 Pedagogical Pieces
Ufie (Igbo Dance)
Artists
Rebeca Omordia (piano)Abdelkader Saadoun (percussion)
About
First recordings include three haunting Nocturnes and percussion-enhanced En attente du printemps by Moroccan, Nabil Benabdeljalil. And Five Kaleidoscopes for Piano by Ghanaian-born to Nigerian parents, Fred Onovwerosuoke, best known for Bolingo, featured in the 2006 Robert de Niro film, The Good Shepherd. They evocatively reference a beehive, love of homeland, Nubian folklore and the elemental power of Nature.
African Pianism takes its title from Ghanaian J.H. Kwabena Nketia’s set of Twelve Pedagogical Pieces, richly influenced by the rhythmic, tonal accent of African percussion music. Ayo Bankole’s Egun Variations, remarks Robert Matthew-Walker in his booklet notes, “skilfully melds… Nigerian musical language within a European G major tonal structure”.
Fellow Nigerians Christian Onyeji and Akin Euba also interrogate African drumming technique to brilliant effect in the former’s Ufie (Igbo Dance), the latter’s Three Yoruba Songs Without Words celebrating indigenous song. David Earl’s ‘Princess Rainbow’, from his autobiographical Scenes from a South African Childhood, is a touching memory of fly-fishing with his father.
Hailed as an “African classical music pioneer” (BBC World Service) and “a classical music game changer” (Classical Music), award-winning pianist Rebeca Omordia is an exciting virtuoso with a wide-ranging career as soloist, chamber musician and recording artist.
She is artistic director of the African Concert Series in London, part of Wigmore Hall’s Family of Partners. The 2022 series launches at London’s Africa Centre on January 25.
Rebeca’s previous SOMM release, The Piano Music of Ralph Vaughan Williams (SOMMCD 0164), was hailed by MusicWeb International as “spellbinding music”. Gramophone declared her collaboration with Mark Bebbington “a classy anthology… [both] finding a unremitting logic, sweep and concentration that thrill to the marrow”.
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