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Adrian Democ

Piano

Label: Elsewhere

Format: CD

Genre: Compositional

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Piano is an album of three pieces, 'A Luca Marenzio ll', 'Ma fin est mon commencement', and 'Gebrechlichkeit', written by Slovak composer Adrián Demoč between 2018 and 2023. 'Ma fin est mon commencement' and 'Gebrechlichkeit' were written with three performance options in mind: specific instrumentation, open instrumentation with a similar quality of timbre and register, and a "monochromatic polyphonic" instrument, preferably the piano. 'A Luca Marenzio ll' was originally written as 'A Luca Marenzio' for three instruments, with cello (or viola da gamba) as the required instrument and the other two instruments flexible, and 'A Luca Marenzio II' is the 'well-tempered' counterpart to the original piece for solo piano. 

"I was amazed when I heard Miroslav Beinhauer play this piece at a concert in Prague. He managed to create a slightly different timbre for each voice. It was mesmerizing." - Adrián Demoč

"Playing Adrián's music is like meditating but being above the music and 'controlling' the meditation at the same time. And it happens immediately, I don't need time to adjust, to get used to it." - Miroslav Beinhauer

The three pieces were performed and recorded by Beinhauer in the studio of Czech Radio Ostrava in the winter of 2023.
 

Details
Cat. number: elsewhere 031
Year: 2024
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Compositions by Samuel Reinhard
Haruna Higashida – shō
Paul Jacob Fossum – piano

Recorded at Studio Dede in Tokyo, Japan by Akihito Yoshikawa, and at The Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, Denmark by Juan Felipe Arce Bayona

Mixed by Samuel Reinhard
Mastered by Taku Unami

Cover art by Jeff Rossi
CD designed and produced by Yuko Zama

These recordings were made possible with the generous support of the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia.

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