Helena Basilova – A Fearful Fairy Tale (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:57 minutes | 957 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © TRPTK
There are two words for truth in Russian: Pravda for objective truth and Ishtina for transcendental truth, that what you know but cannot explain. While Helena’s previous solo albums – with music from Janacek and Scriabin – were each in their own way quite personal to her, this time she wanted more Ishtina than Pravda. She wanted a story that was not just personal for her but representative of her. And Helena’s personal story is one of multitudes. Of departures and forgetting, discovery and loss, of glimmers of understanding, and feelings of coherence in oceans of confusing false certainties.
This collection of music is meant as a story in itself, each piece included for the power it has to forge a connection that needed the story to be forged. And so it was with the piece that inspired the album.
This album – of stories and a story in itself – is Helena’s tribute, to fairy tales and her homeland.
Tracklist:
01. Bagri: Fairy tale about the forgotten homeland: I. The first snow
02. Myaskovsky: Yellowed leaves, Op. 31: I. Andante
03. Myaskovsky: Yellowed leaves, Op. 31: II. Un poco sostenuto, malinconico e abbandonamente
04. Myaskovsky: Yellowed leaves, Op. 31: III. Andante cantabile
05. Myaskovsky: Yellowed leaves, Op. 31: IV. Molto vivace e fantastico
06. Myaskovsky: Yellowed leaves, Op. 31: V. Molto calmo, ma non troppo lento
07. Myaskovsky: Yellowed leaves, Op. 31: VI. Vivo
08. Myaskovsky: Yellowed leaves, Op. 31: VII. Moderato
09. Firsova: A fearful fairy tale, Op. 171
10. Prkofiev: Tales of an old grandmother, Op. 31: I. Moderato
11. Prokofiev: Tales of an old grandmother, Op. 31: II. Andantino
12. Janáček: Pohádka (fairy tale), JW VII/5: I. Con moto
13. Janáček: Pohádka (fairy tale), JW VII/5: II. Con moto
14. Janáček: Pohádka (fairy tale), JW VII/5: III. Allegro
15. Schnittke: Piano sonata No. 1, Op. 129: I. Largo
16. Medtner: Three tales, Op. 9: II. Allegro alla serenata, con alcuna licenza
17. Medtner: Four tales, Op. 34: II. Allegro cantabile e leggiero
18. Medtner: Four tales, Op. 26: III. Narrante a piacere
19. Medtner: Two tales, Op. 20: II. Pesante. Minaccioso
20. Bagri: Fairy tale about the forgotten homeland: II. Winter dance
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