Matan Porat – LUX (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Matan Porat – LUX (2018)
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With Lux, the brilliant pianist and composer Matan Porat offers a visionary programme inspired by the theme of light. Twelve pieces chosen among a repertoire spanning twelve centuries accompany the course of a day, from dawn to nightfall. each piece corresponds to a time of day, with its own particular light.

The programme might be most eclectic; but its architecture is flawless: Lux, “Light”, from dawn to night, an arc bending from Gregorian chant – the misa in aurora – all the way to the Moonlight of Beethoven’s famous sonata, via the furious meridian heat of Scriabin’s Fourth Sonata followed by the Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun (rewritten for solo piano by Matan Porat himself), and many other pieces from Dowland to Thomas Adès to evoke this or that time of day. Matan Porat has put together a most original line-up – which is absolutely his hallmark – which some might find a little too challenging, but others will applaud: take your pick. We wonder where his next record will take us!

Tracklist:
1-1. Matan Porat – Anonymous: Gregorian Chant: Introitus Lux Fulgebit (Arr. For Piano) (00:53)
1-2. Matan Porat – Robert Schumann: Gesänge Der Frühe, Op. 133: I. Im Ruhigen Tempo (02:04)
1-3. Matan Porat – Claude Debussy: Préludes, Livre 1, L. 117: X. La Cathédrale Engloutie (05:14)
1-4. Matan Porat – Ludwig Van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 21, Op. 53: III. Rondo. Allegretto Moderato, Prestissimo (07:42)
1-5. Matan Porat – Matthias Pintscher: Whirling Tissue Of Light (09:31)
1-6. Matan Porat – Alexander Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 4, Op. 30: I. Andante (03:11)
1-7. Matan Porat – Alexander Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 4, Op. 30: II. Prestissimo Volando (05:13)
1-8. Matan Porat – Claude Debussy: Prélude À L’après Midi D’un Faune, L. 86 (Arr. For Piano) (09:58)
1-9. Matan Porat – Franz Liszt: Études D’exécution Transcendante, S. 139: XI. Harmonies Du Soir (08:49)
1-10. Matan Porat – Thomas Adès: Darknesse Visible (06:50)
1-11. Matan Porat – Bela Bartok: Out Of Doors, Sz. 81: 4. The Night’s Music (05:07)
1-12. Matan Porat – Anonymous: Gregorian Chant: Exortum Est In Tenebris (Arr. For Piano) (00:35)
1-13. Matan Porat – Ludwig Van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 14, Op.27 No.2 “Moonlight”: I. Adagio Sostenuto (06:19)

Personnel:
Matan Porat, piano

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