Julia Igonina, Maxim Emelyanychev – Jazz (Akhunov, Poulenc, Messiaen) (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Julia Igonina, Maxim Emelyanychev – Jazz (Akhunov, Poulenc, Messiaen) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:41 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Classical
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When the composer Sergey Akhunov discovered the ground-breaking book of 1947, “Jazz”, by Henri Matisse – a collection of prints of his colourful cut-paper collages – he was struck by its almost surreal nature, and he conceived the idea of composing music with the title “Jazz”, but which, like Matisse’s book, has nothing to do with jazz. That inspiration finally took shape when Julia Igonina and Maxim Emelyanychev commissioned him to compose a work for them. The result was Jazz, a cycle for violin and piano: fifteen miniatures, bearing titles taken from the prints in Matisse’s book. On this new recording, those pieces are brought together with two French masterpieces of the 1940s by Messiaen and Poulenc (whose favourite painter was Matisse), performed by Julia Igonina and Maxim Emelyanychev on period instruments – violin with gut strings and a magnificent 1908 Blüthner piano (part of the collection of the Piano Museum in Rybinsk).

Tracklist:
1-01. Julia Igonina – Jazz: Lagoon I (02:15)
1-02. Julia Igonina – Jazz: The Knife Thrower (02:03)
1-03. Julia Igonina – Jazz: The Horse, the Rider and the Clown (03:48)
1-04. Julia Igonina – Jazz: Forms (02:07)
1-05. Julia Igonina – Jazz: Pierrot’s Funeral (05:51)
1-06. Julia Igonina – Jazz: Toboggan (00:56)
1-07. Julia Igonina – Jazz: Lagoon II (01:55)
1-08. Julia Igonina – Jazz: The Nightmare of the Elephant (03:01)
1-09. Julia Igonina – Jazz: Forms II (01:52)
1-10. Julia Igonina – Jazz: The Swimmer in the Tank (03:34)
1-11. Julia Igonina – Jazz: Destiny I (03:59)
1-12. Julia Igonina – Jazz: Flight of Icarus (02:38)
1-13. Julia Igonina – Jazz: Destiny II (02:17)
1-14. Julia Igonina – Jazz: The Heart (03:23)
1-15. Julia Igonina – Jazz: Lagoon III (02:20)
1-16. Julia Igonina – Violin Sonata, FP 119: I. Allegro con fuoco (06:13)
1-17. Julia Igonina – Violin Sonata, FP 119: II. Intermezzo (05:41)
1-18. Julia Igonina – Violin Sonata, FP 119: III. Presto tragico (05:31)
1-19. Julia Igonina – Quatuor pour la fin du Temps: V. Louange à l’Éternité de Jésus (07:07)

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