Cahill Smith - Medtner: Primavera, Op. 39, No. 3

Описание: Cahill Smith's debut album, "Medtner: Forgotten Melodies," Released on: 2018-08-10 ℗ 2018 Blue Griffin Recording, Inc.

Buy the full album here:

https://www.cahillsmith.com/audio/

Recorded at the Yamaha Artist Piano Salon in New York, New York
Piano: Yamaha CFX
Piano Technician: Noriyuka Soga, Chief Concert Technician
Audio Visual Specialist: Aaron David Ross
Graphic Design: Eleanora Machado
Produced and engineered by Sergei Kvitko at Blue Griffin Recording

In his debut album, pianist Cahill Smith illuminates the solo piano music of romantic Russian composer Nikolai Medtner (1880-1951), the lesser-known giant whom Rachmaninoff named “the greatest composer of our time.” The Forgotten Melodies are overflowing with drama, lyricism, childlike imagination, and a web of thematic connections that can elicit a sort of musical déjà vu for the listener, sounding at once both ancient and new, both completely strange and intimately familiar.

Reviews of Forgotten Melodies in Concert:

“Mr. Smith was in his element, revealing every twist and turn, every poignant repeat of the cyclic themes, with beautiful shimmering colors I haven’t heard since Gilels played the Sonata reminiscenza in Carnegie Hall in 1980.” (New York Concert Review, in a review of his 2015 recital at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall)

“...unexpected gems" "...in Mr. Smith’s hands they were absolutely endearing.” (East Hampton Star)

Track Listing:
Forgotten Melodies, Book 1, Op. 38
I. Sonata reminiscenza
II. Danza graziosa
III. Danza festiva
IV. Canzona fluviala
V. Danza rustica
VI. Canzona serenata
VII. Danza silvestra
VIII. Alla reminiscenza

Forgotten Melodies, Book II, Op. 39
I . Meditazione
II. Romanza
III. Primavera
IV. Canzona matinata
V. Sonata tragica