Composer: Martin Skafte
Performer: Jonas Olsson
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0640
Release: 2022
Size: 971 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
24 Preludes for Piano, Book 1 (After Debussy’s L. 117)
01. No. 1, Going Home
02. No. 2, Now and Again
03. No. 3, Eloquent Mist
04. No. 4, A Long Winter Season
05. No. 5, Lines and Timelines
06. No. 6, You’re Nothing Without Me!
07. No. 7, Finding Memory Again
08. No. 8, In Suspense
09. No. 9, Weak Ties
10. No. 10, Shall We Play?
11. No. 11, A Welcome Break
12. No. 12, Not Today
24 Preludes for Piano, Book 2 (After Debussy’s L. 123)
13. No. 1, In the Corner
14. No. 2, The Paths Decide
15. No. 3, Leaping Lightly
16. No. 4, Four Steps to the Side
17. No. 5, White Wind
18. No. 6, Gaia’s Navel
19. No. 7, Emerging Victorious
20. No. 8, It’s All Out There
21. No. 9, A Time for Everything
22. No. 10, Revisiting
23. No. 11, Faded Expectations
24. No. 12, One Last Look Back
The fascination of the Swedish composer Martin Skafte (born 1980) with the 24 Préludes of Claude Debussy inspired 24 Preludes from Skafte himself, with occasional oblique references to Debussy’s originals but using Skafte’s own musical language. Like Debussy, Skafte exploits the colours and sonorities of the piano but also he requires Lisztian virtuosity and pulls in a range of further influences, among them ragtime and Ligeti – and a sly sense of humour can often be detected in the background.