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PART, A.: Piano Music - Piano Sonatine / Partita / Lamentate (van Raat, Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic, Falletta)

Composer(s):Part, Arvo
Artist(s) Falletta, JoAnn, Conductor • Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonicvan Raat, Ralph, piano
Period(s) Contemporary
Genre Classical Music
Category ConcertosInstrumental
Catalogue 8.572525
Label Naxos
Quality   320kbps
Album Price
 
CD
USD 9.99
 

 
MP3
USD 6.99
 

 


Arvo Pärt’s piano works range from his first public statement as a composer, the Zwei Sonatinen, to his latest, the life affirming miniature Für Anna Maria. Moving away from his 1960s atonal language, Pärt found an essence of truth in music embodied in the simple lines of Für Alina. Lamentate is a vast monument which the composer has described as a lament ‘not for the dead, but for the living’. Multi award-winning pianist Ralph van Raat has been praised for his ‘sensitive and technically refined’ playing of Hans Otte’s Book of Sounds (8.572444) (MusicWeb International).


   




Review By Rob Wendt,I Care If You Listen,May 2012

Pärt Piano Music by Naxos features pianist Ralph van Raat interpreting the Estonian composer’s music spanning over four decades. This retrospective takes us on a stylistic journey that is truly millennial in scope, while remaining reverent in spirit.

Ralph van Raat plays the allegro passages with a digital precision characteristic of post-war piano music. He imbues the largo passages…with a touching impressionistic quality.

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Review By Leslie Wright,MusicWeb International,February 2012

The Partita goes further in its use of atonality and at times is reminiscent of the piano music of Bartók and Ligeti…these are the most interesting and virtuosic of the pieces on the CD…they have a quality of the ancient and modern that is uniquely Pärt’s…I was impressed by Ralph van Raat’s pianism on an earlier disc of John Adams’s piano music and am equally taken with it here. He has a fine, light touch and judicious use of the sustaining pedal, so that the notes, which are meant to reverberate, do so without being overdone.

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Review By Byzantion,MusicWeb International,January 2012

Listener-friendly, tonal, atmospheric, introspective: this magical work is a pan-temporal filmic-Lisztian hybrid of expansive, elegiac soundscapes that often approach stasis. What sets Pärt apart from other ‘minimalists’ is that he has the genius to create beauty, drama and variety out of very little apparent material—his music almost always evokes a sense of depth, even if the words Pärt uses to write about it are often vacantly New Age.

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Review By Jordi Caturla González ,Ritmo,January 2012

Antes de nada, hay que indicar que este es un buen disco para tener una visión global de la carrera de Arvo Pärt, y que por tanto no es recomendable para aquellos que gusten únicamente de la simplicidad tonal, el minimalismo con los que se asocia al compositor estonio. Las Dos sonatinas de 1958-59 corresponden a la etapa estudiantil de Pärt, en la que el influjo de Prokofiev es más que evidente. Esta obra junto con la Partita op. 2, de carácter dodecafónica, entroncan con los lenguajes más “avanzados” de la época, que Pärt irá progresivamente abandonando a partir de los años 70 del siglo pasado. Las Variaciones para la curación de Arinuschka (1977) ya muestran

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Review By Anne Midgette,The Washington Post,December 2011

Anne Midgette’s best classical music of 2011

Arvo Part is beloved for his shimmering, static compositions; but his work for solo piano is neither static nor well known. The Dutch pianist van Raat changes that with a five-decade survey of the Part you didn’t know, from baroque-influenced sonatinas of 1959 to an exquisite tonal miniature from 2006, and including a ponderous concerto led by JoAnn Falletta. © 2011 The Washington Post See complete list



Review By Pwyll ap Siôn ,Gramophone,December 2011

Lamentate saves the day with its delicate droplets of sound and spiritual minimalist ambience…Van Raat’s playing is convincing throughout …

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Review By Barry Witherden,BBC Music Magazine,November 2011

This is a well conceived crash-course in significant moment in the development of Pärt’s music. The best-known piece included is Für Alina. The others will be refreshingly unfamiliar to most people (indeed, the perky miniature Für Anna Maria is a première recording) and Ralph van Raat plays with both sensitivity and verve.



Review By Infodad.com,October 2011

all this solo piano music is very well played by Ralph van Raat. He also does a very fine job in the longest and most substantial work on the CD, a 2002 piece for piano and orchestra called Lamentate: Homage to Anish Kapoor and his sculpture “Marsyas.” Effectively orchestrated and very well played by the Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic under JoAnn Falletta…



Review By Stephen Eddins,Allmusic.com,October 2011

This would not be the right album for listeners looking primarily for Pärt’s legendary austere simplicity, but it would be ideal for anyone already familiar with the composer looking for exposure to the broad stylistic and expressive range of which he is capable. Van Raat, a champion of new music, plays with sensitivity and appropriate simplicity in the later works and has no trouble making the virtuosic Sonatinas sparkle. JoAnn Faletta expertly leads Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic in the spare accompaniment in Lamentate. Naxos’ sound is clean, present, and realistic.



Review By Jeff Simon,The Buffalo News,October 2011

It can be big, stern music with huge, imposing gestures and, at the same time, enormously respectful of silence and pianissimos. What this disc does that’s most impressive— and unusual—is that it gives you on one disc an adequate sense of the length and breadth of Pärt’s career… Van Raat is superb here, and Falletta is rather stunningly attentive to give the music sculptural solidity in space.








 

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