New Music Albums: AFRICAN PIANISM, VOL 2 (Rebeca Omordia)

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Artist:
Rebeca Omordia

Genre:
Classical

Total Time:
76:06

Record Label:
Somm Recordings

Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, Apple Music

Release Date
July 19, 2024




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Product Description: SOMM Recordings is thrilled to announce African Pianism, Volume 2, a new instalment in a collection of piano music by African composers. Following suit from her critically acclaimed first African Pianism album, Rebeca Omordia brings us a fascinating programme with no less than 8 First Recordings. Among these is the 4th in a selection of three Studies in African Pianism by Akin Euba, a Nigerian composer who makes a return on this second volume and whose "African Pianism" style, inspired by the research of Ghanaian composer J.H. Kwabena Nketia (see vol.1), shares it's name with this outstanding series as a whole.Ethiopian concert pianist and composer Girma Yifrashewa's Elilta (Cry of Joy) is painted in evocative liner notes by Robert Matthew-Walker as an outward-looking piece of no little technical challenge and described as "a celebration of happiness" by Swiss musicologist Louis Bernard.The music of Algerian composer Salim Dada attempts to be a means by which a natural message of peace and dialogue may exist between the Arab-Muslim world and European civilisation. His five Miniatures Algeriennes fully display the composer's natural command of the modern-day post-Impressionist school.Moroccan composer Nabil Benabdeljalil, like Akin Euba, makes a second appearance in this series with a new set of four pieces including 3 first recordings. His creative aim is "to rediscover the poetic essence of musical expression, ignoring 'historical necessities' with implied prohibitions and orientations. Free from the constraints of a specific age or era."Soweto native Mokale Koapeng's Prelude in D flat is infused with African dance elements he grew up listening to and witnessing in various townships and uses the interlocking technique of idiophones. Fellow South African Grant McLachlan contributes his arrangement for solo piano of the anti-apartheid protest song "Senzeni Na?", which begins "What have we done? Is our sin that we are black?".Fela Sowande, a Nigerian composer of the previous century, figures on the programme with hauntingly original "K'A Mura" from 2 Preludes on Yoruba Sacred Folk Melodies. Also representing the first half of the 20th century is celebrated African American composer Florence Price in her luxuriantly pianistic Fantasie negre, based on the spiritual "Don't Let this Harvest Pass".Hailed as an "African classical music pioneer" (BBC World Service) and "a classical music game changer" (Classical Music), award-winning pianist Rebeca Omordia is an exciting virtuoso with a wide-ranging career as soloist, chamber musician and recording artist. She is artistic director of the African Concert Series, in residence at London's Wigmore Hall.

TRACK LIST:

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1 . Elilta (07:11)

2 . Miniatures Algériennes (Version for Piano): No. 1, Aurore de Djurdjura (03:32)

3 . Miniatures Algériennes (Version for Piano): No. 2, Danse Zaydan (03:40)

4 . Miniatures Algériennes (Version for Piano): No. 3, Crépuscule sur la baie d'Alger (03:45)

5 . Miniatures Algériennes (Version for Piano): No. 4, Danse de la jument (01:44)

6 . Miniatures Algériennes (Version for Piano): No. 5, Soirée au Hoggar (04:14)

7 . Prélude No. 1 ."Magic Morning" (03:27)

8 . Prélude No. 2 ."Mirage et lumière" (01:44)

9 . Romance sans paroles (03:35)

10 . Frisson de la nuit (09:03)

11 . Prelude in D-Flat Major (02:07)

12 . Senzeni na? (Arr. for Piano by Grant McLachlan) (03:03)

13 . 2 .Preludes on Yoruba Sacred Folk Melodies: No. 1, K'A Mura (05:19)

14 . Fantasie nègre No. 1 .in E Minor (08:40)

15 . Wakar Duru: No. 4, — (04:28)

16 . Wakar Duru: No. 1, — (04:54)

17 .Wakar Duru: No. 2, — (05:48)

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