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Yevgeny Kutik & John Novacek - Words Fail (2016)

Yevgeny Kutik & John Novacek - Words Fail (2016)
  • Title: Words Fail
  • Year Of Release: 2016
  • Label: Marquis Classics
  • Genre: Classical
  • Quality: flac lossless (tracks)
  • Total Time: 01:11:49
  • Total Size: 336 mb
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Tracklist

01. Songs Without Words: Op. 19, No.1
02. Songs Without Words: Op. 62, No. 6
03. Songs Without Words: Op. 67, No. 2
04. Adagietto from Symphony No. 5
05. Arioso Doloroso/Estatico
06. Words Fail
07. Song Without Words
08. Five Melodies Op. 35bis: I. Andante
09. Five Melodies Op. 35bis: II. Lento, ma non troppo
10. Five Melodies Op. 35bis: III. Animato, ma non allegro
11. Five Melodies Op. 35bis: IV. Andantino, un poco scherzando
12. Five Melodies Op. 35bis: V. Andante non troppo
13. Thème et variations
14. T'filah (Prayer) for solo violin
15. Pastoral
16. Albumblatt

Because of the violin's close identification with the human voice, its use in songlike compositions is quite common. Yevgeny Kutik's program on this 2016 Marquis release reflects the lyrical aspects of the violin, in several songs without words and other chamber pieces with a strong melodic component. Yet the album's title, Words Fail, suggests that when words cannot convey the proper sentiment, music takes over. All of Kutik's selections convey this sense of pushing past the limitations of verbal expressions and letting the melodic line carry emotions through its changing shapes, intervals, dynamics, and tone colors. To the extent that this is a highly melodic album, even the modernist pieces by Sergey Prokofiev, Olivier Messiaen, and Lera Auerbach are flowing and quite listenable, though the more familiar songs without words of Felix Mendelssohn and Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky, as well as the violin and piano arrangement of the Adagietto from Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 5, are immediately accessible. Two works commissioned by Kutik receive premiere recordings here, Michael Gandolfi's Arioso Doloroso/Estatico and Timo Andres' Words Fail, so the repertoire has been expanded with two more poetic studies that go beyond mere words. Marquis' recorded sound is focused and clear, and Kutik has close-up presence, especially in his solos.

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