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Folk Trails
TOCN0039 (Toccata Next, CD)
FIRST RELEASE (4 April 2025)
Tracks: 34
℗ 2025 Toccata Classics
© 2025 Toccata Classics
Received: 7 March 2025
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Anya Alexeyev, piano primo
Leslie De'Ath, secondo
Music by Bela Bartók, Charles Villiers Stanford, Connor Chee, Đặng Hữu Phúc, Eleanor Alberga, Georgs Pelēcis, Jean Sibelius, Komitas, Leonid Desyatnikov, Marko Tajčević, Wang Jianzhong
Folk music has been a resource for classical composers since the beginning of the western tradition. The violin has its own folk heritage, of course, but since you can't lug a piano from village to village, composers for that instrument have had to dig into their own musical roots to generate a folk-based keyboard repertoire, usually with refreshing results. This recital takes the listener on a journey that spans three continents, east to west, marrying the resources of the modern concert grand with the immediacy of the folk originals.