Julia Hamos – Ellis Island (2025) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Julia Hamos – Ellis Island (2025)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:08 minutes | 1001 MB | Genre: Classical
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“Ellis Island” is an odyssey in sound, the story of a pianist with dual origins, Julia Hamos, who, in this very first album, looks at her family roots, American and Hungarian, and displays a longing for adventure. She looks towards the Hungary of Bartok and Kurtag, engaging in a dialogue with the memory of her ancestors from Transylvania. Originally from the same region as Kurtag, her maternal grandfather knew Ligeti as a child.This journey with it’s haunting poetry will lead us also to New York, the pianist’s first home, a place of hope and inspiration, which always feeds her creativity. Myself When I Am Real by Charles Mingus bursts forth, a fabulous moment, both poetic and pianistic, the zenith of this unusual and personal journey where the pianist, with a mellow yet clear sound palette, will have brought together in a fluid gesture the waking dreams of Schubert (Ungarische melodie, 1824), the very earthy and despair-tinged folklore of Bartok (Fifteen Hungarian Peasant Songs) and the torrential and enigmatic explosions of early Kurtag (8 Pieces Op. 3).

In this eminently personal journey, however, there is no narcissistic temptation. Because if the young musician plays, she above all wants to speak to us, with modesty, but not without determination. Her piano assembles words, choreographs rhythms, and also deploy it’s range of pastels colours. This is demonstrated by the subtle selection of Jatekok, where the piano will embody a thousand faces, in turn itself (Capriccioso), percussion (Play with Overtones), harp (Perpetuum mobile) or violin duet with viola (Tears).

Tracklist:

1-1. Julia Hamos – Játékok, Volume I: No. 74, Perpetuum mobile (objet trouvé) (02:22)
1-2. Julia Hamos – Ellis Island (Version for Solo Piano) (03:10)
1-3. Julia Hamos – 8 Klavierstücke, Op. 3: I. Inesorabile. Andante con moto (00:58)
1-4. Julia Hamos – 8 Klavierstücke, Op. 3: II. Calmo (01:22)
1-5. Julia Hamos – 8 Klavierstücke, Op. 3: III. Sostenuto (00:35)
1-6. Julia Hamos – 8 Klavierstücke, Op. 3: IV. Scorrevole (00:53)
1-7. Julia Hamos – 8 Klavierstücke, Op. 3: V. Prestissimo possibile (00:38)
1-8. Julia Hamos – 8 Klavierstücke, Op. 3: VI. Grave (00:33)
1-9. Julia Hamos – 8 Klavierstücke, Op. 3: VII. Adagio (01:00)
1-10. Julia Hamos – 8 Klavierstücke, Op. 3: VIII. Vivo (01:01)
1-11. Julia Hamos – Myself When I Am Real (09:11)
1-12. Julia Hamos – Etudes, Book 1: No. 4, Fanfares (03:31)
1-13. Julia Hamos – Mikrokosmos, Sz. 107: No. 148, Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm, No. 1 (01:54)
1-14. Julia Hamos – Mikrokosmos, Sz. 107: No. 149, Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm, No. 2 (01:05)
1-15. Julia Hamos – Mikrokosmos, Sz. 107: No. 150, Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm, No. 3 (01:29)
1-16. Julia Hamos – Mikrokosmos, Sz. 107: No. 151, Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm, No. 4 (01:41)
1-17. Julia Hamos – Mikrokosmos, Sz. 107: No. 152, Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm, No. 5 (01:16)
1-18. Julia Hamos – Mikrokosmos, Sz. 107: No. 153, Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm, No. 6 (01:49)
1-19. Julia Hamos – Játékok, Volume V: No. 33, Capriccioso – luminoso (00:34)
1-20. Julia Hamos – Játékok, Volume III: No. 34, Play with Overtones (4) (01:19)
1-21. Julia Hamos – Játékok, Volume VII: No. 23, Tears (01:46)
1-22. Julia Hamos – Játékok, Volume VI: No. 30, Doina (02:43)
1-23. Julia Hamos – 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs, Sz. 71: No. 1, Rubato (01:01)
1-24. Julia Hamos – 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs, Sz. 71: No. 2, Andante (01:56)
1-25. Julia Hamos – 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs, Sz. 71: No. 3, Poco rubato (00:57)
1-26. Julia Hamos – 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs, Sz. 71: No. 4, Andante (00:39)
1-27. Julia Hamos – 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs, Sz. 71: No. 5, Scherzo (Allegro) (00:50)
1-28. Julia Hamos – 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs, Sz. 71: No. 6, Ballad. Theme with variations (Andante) (02:45)
1-29. Julia Hamos – 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs, Sz. 71: No. 7, Allegro (00:44)
1-30. Julia Hamos – 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs, Sz. 71: No. 8, Allegretto (00:40)
1-31. Julia Hamos – 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs, Sz. 71: No. 9, Allegretto (00:17)
1-32. Julia Hamos – 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs, Sz. 71: No. 10, L’istesso tempo (00:31)
1-33. Julia Hamos – 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs, Sz. 71: No. 11, Assai moderato (00:51)
1-34. Julia Hamos – 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs, Sz. 71: No. 12, Allegretto (00:32)
1-35. Julia Hamos – 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs, Sz. 71: No. 13, Poco più vivo (00:32)
1-36. Julia Hamos – 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs, Sz. 71: No. 14, Allegro (00:42)
1-37. Julia Hamos – 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs, Sz. 71: No. 15, Allegro (01:30)
1-38. Julia Hamos – Ungarische Melodie in B Minor, D. 817 (03:33)

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