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Stephen De Pledge - A Madness Most Discreet (2016)

Stephen De Pledge - A Madness Most Discreet (2016)

BAND/ARTIST: Stephen De Pledge

  • Title: A Madness Most Discreet
  • Year Of Release: 2016
  • Label: Champs Hill Records
  • Genre: Classical Piano
  • Quality: flac lossless (tracks) +Booklet
  • Total Time: 01:17:28
  • Total Size: 188 mb
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Tracklist

01. Kinderszenen, Op. 15: I. Von fremden Ländern und Menschen
02. Kinderszenen, Op. 15: II. Kuriose Geschichte
03. Kinderszenen, Op. 15: III. Hasche-Mann
04. Kinderszenen, Op. 15: IV. Bittendes Kind
05. Kinderszenen, Op. 15: V. Glückes genug
06. Kinderszenen, Op. 15: VI. Wichtige Begebenheit
07. Kinderszenen, Op. 15: VII. Träumerei
08. Kinderszenen, Op. 15: VIII. Am Kamin
09. Kinderszenen, Op. 15: IX. Ritter vom Steckenpferd
10. Kinderszenen, Op. 15: X. Fast zu ernst
11. Kinderszenen, Op. 15: XI. Fürchtenmachen
12. Kinderszenen, Op. 15: XII. Kind im Einschlummern
13. Kinderszenen, Op. 15: XIII. Der Dichter spricht
14. Tristan und Isolde: Isoldes Liebestod S. 447
15. Piano Prelude – A Landscape with Too Few Lovers
16. Goyescas, Op. 11: Los requiebros
17. Romeo and Juliet, Op. 75: I. Folk Dance
18. Romeo and Juliet, Op. 75: II. Scene: The Street Awakens
19. Romeo and Juliet, Op. 75: III. Minuet: Arrival of the Guests
20. Romeo and Juliet, Op. 75: IV. Juliet as a Young Girl
21. Romeo and Juliet, Op. 75: V. Masquers
22. Romeo and Juliet, Op. 75: VI. Montagues and Capulets
23. Romeo and Juliet, Op. 75: VII. Friar Laurence
24. Romeo and Juliet, Op. 75: VIII. Mercutio
25. Romeo and Juliet, Op. 75: IX. Dance of the Girls with Lilies
26. Romeo and Juliet, Op. 75: X. Romeo and Juliet before Parting

Stephen De Pledge - A Madness Most Discreet (2016)


New Zealand pianist Stephen de Pledge’s new album of solo piano music takes it’s title from a line in Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, and presents a selection of ‘Love in Piano Music’.

He begins with Kinderszenen by Robert Schumann, deceptively simple pieces which are reflections on childhood, written for his beloved Clara Wieck two years before they were finally granted permission to marry.

It was Liszt who first described the great final aria in Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde as her ‘Liebestod’ (love-death), and his famous transcription made for solo piano in 1868 and revised in 1875 is perhaps the ultimate expression of a ‘love song’ for piano.

A landscape with too few lovers, painted by the New Zealand artist Colin McCahon, inspired compatriot composer Ross Harris (born 1945) to write this piece for Stephan de Pledge.

Goyescas by the Spanish composer Enrique Granados is in two parts and ‘Los Requiebros’ (Endearments) is heard here. It is by turns flamboyant, seductive, and unmistakably virtuosic. Granados himself gave the suite’s premiere in 1911.

Prokofiev’s arrangement of Ten Pieces for piano solo from Romeo and Juliet was the composers attempt to salvage some of his music from the original ballet score after the director of the Bolshoi, due to premiere the work in the 1935-6 season, was arrested as an ‘enemy of the people’ and shot.

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