Anna Gourari

In this imaginatively shaped and sensitively played album – her third for ECM - Russian pianist Anna Gourari explores musical connections and influences extending across the arts. Three suites of contemporary music are heard here. Alfred Schnittke’s Five Aphorisms (1990) draw impulses from the poetry of his friend Joseph Brodsky. Rodion Shchedrin’s Diary - Seven Pieces (2002) dedicated to Gourari and inspired by her playing, reflects the life of a pianist and composer. Wolfgang Rihm’s sequence of tombeaux, Zwiesprache (1999) pays tribute to musicologists Alfred Schlee and Hans Heinrich, Eggebrecht, conductor Paul Sacher, and art sociologist Hermann Wiesler.

PERSONNEL:

• ANNA GOURARI, solo piano

TRACKS:

• 01. Largo BWV 975
• 02. Moderato assai
• 03. Allegretto
• 04. Lento
• 05. Senza tempo
• 06, Grav
• 07. Piano Piece NO. 15
• 08. Sostenuto assai
• 09. L'istesso tempo
• 10. Allegretto moderato (in ritmo)
• 11. Allegro, ma non troppo
• 12. Lento, sempre poco rubato
• 13. Presto leggiero
• 14. Sostenuto alla campana
• 15. Variationen Zur Gesundung Von Arinuschka
• 16. Alfred Schlee in memoriam
• 17. Paul Sacher in memoriam
• 18. Heinrich Klotz in memoriam
• 19. Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht in memoriam
• 20. Hermann Wiesler in memoriam
• 21. Piano Piece NO. 23
• 22. Adagio BWV 974