Performer: Lara Downes
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Pentatone
Catalogue: PTC5187018
Release: 2023
Size: 1.26 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Jezek: Dawn
02. Bach: Chorale Prelude BWV645 ‘Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme’
03. Friedman: Laugh at All My Dreams
04. Bonds: Credo. No. 2, I Believe (Arr. L. Downes for Solo Piano)
05. Assad: A World of Change
06. Kahane: Little Love
07. Schubert: Frühlingsglaube, D686
08. Rodríguez: Tree of Life
09. Tanaka: Earth
10. Kariũki: It Only Ever Rains in November
11. Gray: Even This Laughter; Even Your Tears
12. Bellido: By Loving You
13. Hickey: Fluid
14. Tsoupaki: Meeting Point
15. Andres: Parting Friends
16. Fain: I’ll Be Seeing You
17. Tabakova: Simple Prayer for Complex Times
18. Molina: Blessing
19. Iyer: Crown Thy Good
20. Yousufi: Healer
21. Bansal: Mirror the Stars
22. Khayam: Bright Night
23. Sylvestrov: Lullaby
24. trad.: Amazing Grace
25. Downes: Audio Commentary
Love at Last is pianist Lara Downes’s first Pentatone album, inspired by the poem Sachki, Sachki by the Odessa-born Jewish writer Shaul Tchernichovsky. Downes presents 24 pieces, many of them in world premiere recordings, of works by living composers around the globe. Spanning generations, continents and cultures, these diverse voices are united in a stubborn belief in the possibility of humanity, brotherhood, peace, and compassion, and in the everlasting power of love.
An iconoclast and trailblazer, Lara Downes’s dynamic work as a sought-after soloist, a Billboard Chart-topping recording artist, a producer, curator, arts activist and advocate positions her as a cultural visionary on the national arts scene. She was honored as 2022 Classical Woman of the Year by Performance Today.