A Fearful Fairy Tale | Trptk TTK0041

A Fearful Fairy Tale

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Label: Trptk

Cat No: TTK0041

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 2nd August 2019

Contents

Artists

Helena Basilova (piano)
Maya Fridman (cello)

Works

Bagri, Yuri

Fairy Tale about the Forgotten Homeland
» no.1 The First Snow
» no.2 Winter Dance

Firsova, Elena

A Fearful Fairy Tale, op.171

Janacek, Leos

Pohadka (Fairy-tale), JWVII/5

Medtner, Nikolai

Fairy Tales (Skazki) (2), op.20
» no.2 in B minor
Fairy Tales (Skazki) (3), op.9
» no.2 Allegro alla serenata, con alcuna licenza
Fairy Tales (Skazki) (4), op.26
» no.3 in A minor
Fairy Tales (Skazki) (4), op.34
» no.2 in E minor

Myaskovsky, Nicolai

Yellowed Leaves, op.31

Prokofiev, Sergei

Old Grandmother's Tales, op.31
» no.1 Moderato
» no.2 Andantino

Schnittke, Alfred

Piano Sonata no.1
» I Largo

Artists

Helena Basilova (piano)
Maya Fridman (cello)

About

There are two words for truth in Russian: Pravda for objective truth and Ishtina for transcendental truth, that what you know but cannot explain. While Helena’s previous solo albums – with music from Janáček and Scriabin – were each in their own way quite personal to her, this time she wanted more Ishtina than Pravda. She wanted a story that was not just personal for her but representative of her. And Helena’s personal story is one of multitudes. Of departures and forgetting, discovery and loss, of glimmers of understanding, and feelings of coherence in oceans of confusing false certainties.

This collection of music is meant as a story in itself, each piece included for the power it has to forge a connection that needed the story to be forged. And so it was with the piece that inspired the album.

This album – of stories and a story in itself – is Helena’s tribute, to fairy tales and her homeland.

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