Composer: Arthur Vincent Lourié
Performer: Birgit Ramsl, Raphael Leone, Paolo Beltramini, Candy Grace Ho, Gottlieb Wallisch, Egidius Streiff, Musicians of the Arthur Lourié Festival, Basel
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0652
Release: 2022
Size: 0.99 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Sunrise
Pastorale de la Volga
02. I.
03. II.
04. Regina Coeli
La flûte à travers le violon
05. II. Allegretto
06. II. Adagio
07. III. Presto
Dithyrambes
08. I. Le sacrifice du miel
09. II. Plainte d’ariane
10. III. Labyrinthe
Etudes sur un sonnet de Mallarme: Phrases
11. No. 1, Phrases
12. The Mime
13. The Flute of Pan
14. Funeral Games In Honor Of Chronos
The turbulent life of Arthur Lourié (1891-1966) – student of Glazunov, friend of Blok, lover of Akhmatova, commissar of the Soviet regime, an exile in Germany, France and the USA, ghost-writer for Koussevitzky – is reflected in the wide range of references in his music, from echoes of the ceremonies of ancient Greece to Neo-Baroque and Neo-Classical procedures perhaps inspired by his collaboration with Stravinsky in Paris. Some of the works in this first of two albums surveying his chamber and instrumental music have an almost ritual formality; in others a mischievous grin is not far from the surface.