Laakso - Compositions for Piano and Soprano
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Label: Alba
Cat No: ABCD518
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 3rd March 2023
Contents
Works
BeyondFrom Behind the Wallpaper
I don't know when the ice has left: Canzoni domestici
Jam Pot
Villa: 4 miniatures for piano
Writing These Poems
Artists
Pia Freund (soprano)Anna Laakso (piano)
Chrys Salt (Sprechstimme)
Works
BeyondFrom Behind the Wallpaper
I don't know when the ice has left: Canzoni domestici
Jam Pot
Villa: 4 miniatures for piano
Writing These Poems
Artists
Pia Freund (soprano)Anna Laakso (piano)
Chrys Salt (Sprechstimme)
About
The narrator of the publication's title track - Jam Pot - the teller polishes the jam pot he inherited and sees the faces of his relatives as a mirror on its surface. Poet Chrys Salt's text beautifully supports Laakso's impulsive and reactive melodic lines, and the poet herself participates in the song's improvised Sprechstimme parts with Anna Laakso and Pia Freund. The release also includes Laakso's earlier song series Writing These Poems composed to Salt's poem.
The opening song of the release, Villa, was composed by Ilari Laakso for his daughter Anna Laakso. The second piano composition of the release, Beyond, vibrates between the subtle invisible and the noisy visible.
The release ends with the song series I don't know when the ice has left. The piece is composed to the poems of the composer's sister Ritva Pärssisen, who had MSA, which she wrote around the time of the siblings' father's death in 1990. The subtitle of the song series is Canzoni domestici.
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