A belated thank you for your support, Antonio.

Friday, March 17, 2017

Federico Mompou - Silent Music (Jenny Lin)


Information

Composer: Federico Mompou
  • (01-09) Música Callada: Book 1
  • (10-16) Música Callada: Book 2
  • (17-21) Música Callada: Book 3
  • (22-28) Música Callada: Book 4
  • (29) Secreto (from Impresiones intimas)

Jenny Lin, piano
Date: 2011
Label: Steinway & Sons
http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=553948


----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Review

ARTISTIC QUALITY: 10 / SOUND QUALITY: 10

Música Callada (Music of Silence) is a very special work, one of the most beautiful and elusive in the entire piano repertoire. It is extremely difficult to perform. On the one hand, there’s the temptation to stretch each piece out hypnotically, if monotonously, while quicker speeds preserve the music’s melodic essence at the expense of much of its atmosphere and harmonic richness. For although much of the music is indeed quiet, and none of it moves quickly, it is all meaningful.

Mompou himself found the perfect balance between incident and repose, and of all the pianists since, Jenny Lin arguably comes closest to doing the same, only in much better sound. It’s not so much that her tempos match Mompou’s own (she’s actually not copying him–it would hardly be possible in a work containing 28 individual pieces), but rather that her phrasing and sense of timing let the music breathe and sing with its own special poetry. To take just one example, consider the sadness that Lin finds in the fourth piece, “Afflitto e penoso”, by allowing the piece’s harmonic color time to speak simply and eloquently.

Another secret of her success is the splendid equilibrium between left and right hands. The treble gleams, bell-like, while the sonorous bass lines carry the music right through the many pauses, aided in no small degree by discretely timed use of the pedals. “Secreto”, from the early Impresiones intimas, makes the perfect encore and rounds out the program in a most satisfying way. If Música Callada represents Mompou’s masterpiece, then this beautifully engineered disc must be its finest modern recording. It deserves a home in every serious piano music collection.

-- David HurwitzClassicsToday

More reviews:
http://www.allmusic.com/album/silent-music-jenny-lin-plays-federico-mompou-mw0002126092
https://www.amazon.com/Mompou-Musica-callada-Silent-Music/dp/B004P96X4E

----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Frederic Mompou (16 April 1893 – 30 June 1987) was a Catalan composer and pianist. He is remembered for his solo piano music and, to a degree, his songs. Mompou studied piano under Pedro Serra at the Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu and with Isidor Philipp at the Conservatoire de Paris. Mompou is best known as a miniaturist, writing short, relatively improvisatory music, often described as delicate or intimate. His principal influences were French impressionism, Erik Satie and Gabriel Fauré. He was also influenced by the sounds of Catalan culture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_Mompou

***

Jenny Lin (born 1973) is a Taiwanese-born American pianist. She studied music at Vienna's Hochschule für Musik with Noel Flores and later on at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore with Julian Martin. She also studied with Richard Goode, Dmitri Bashkirov, and Andreas Staier. Lin is one of those adventurous pianists unafraid to tackle contemporary repertory or to explore the works of lesser-known composers of generations past. She has been serving on the faculty at the 92nd Street Y, and has made recordings for Hänssler Classics, BIS, and Koch International.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------

FLAC, tracks
Links in comment
Enjoy!

6 comments:

  1. This comment has been removed by the author.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Linkshrink uses ads that are malware try to convince you that you have a virus and block the internet connection- hard to get rid of---It just happened to me
    You really must use a link service with higher standards!

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. First, I want to thank you. Your comment will serve as a warning for others to avoid this kind of problem.

      Second, if you pay attention, you will see that I always advise visitors to use Adblock or JDownloader if they have any problems with malware from the ads. ("Notes" section, red text, on the right column of this blog, above even my profile!)

      Third, please understand this kind of problem is very common. After all, we are sharing copyright contents, and it's considered illegal in many countries. There won't be any big (and clean) advertisers who willing to participate in this. The choices are very limited.

      Well, thanks again for visiting my blog. When the time comes, I will try using another link shorten service, to see if things are better.

      Delete
  3. Puede reponer este álbum por favor? Gracias

    ReplyDelete
  4. Choose one link, copy it to your browser's address bar, wait 5 seconds, then click on 'Skip Ad' (or 'Continue') (top right).
    If you are asked to download anything, IGNORE, only download from file hosting site (mega.nz).
    If MEGA shows 'Bandwidth Limit Exceeded' message, try to create a free account.

    http://eunsetee.com/5BpC
    or
    https://ouo.io/ukgEcz
    or
    http://uii.io/GyLB6

    ReplyDelete