Inna Faliks & Rebecca Mozo - Polonaise-fantaisie: The Story of a Pianist (2017)
波罗乃兹-幻想曲: 一个钢琴家的故事
幻想波罗乃兹舞曲/幻想波兰舞曲/波兰舞曲幻想曲
Artists: Inna Faliks, piano 英娜·法利克斯 (https://www.innafaliks.com/)
& Rebecca Mozo, narrator
Genre: Classical
Label: Delos
No.: DE 3540
Number of Discs: 2
Year: 2017
乌克兰出生的美国钢琴家, 加州大学洛杉矶分校音乐学院钢琴系教授, 钢琴系主任。
Inna Faliks is a spellbinding Ukrainian-born pianist with a glowing international reputation. Her long-standing practice of alternating musical interludes with the spoken word takes the form here of narrative storytelling. And with this unique CD her first for Delos Inna has a captivating, powerful and very moving tale to tell. Her story chronicles her life’s path: her family’s emigration to America, her seminal early influences and her evolution as an artist. And it’s also her love story, as she is reunited as an adult with the childhood friend who is now her husband. Each episode of the pianist’s saga dramatically narrated by actress Rebecca Mozo alternates with a beautifully played masterpiece that is closely connected to her life story from childhood onward. Music and words combine to spin a powerful and moving tale.
Biography:
“Adventurous and passionate” (The New Yorker) Ukrainian-born American pianist Inna Faliks has established herself as one of the most exciting, committed, communicative and poetic artists of her generation. Faliks has made a name for herself through her commanding performances of standard piano repertoire, as well genre-bending, interdisciplinary projects, and inquisitive work with contemporary composers. After her acclaimed teenage debuts at the Gilmore Festival and with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, she has performed on many of the world’s great stages, with numerous orchestras, in solo appearances, and with conductors such as Leonard Slatkin and Keith Lockhart. Faliks is currently Professor of Piano and Head of Piano at UCLA. Critics call her “a concert pianist of the highest order” (Chicago WTTW), praise her “courage to take risks, expressive intensity and technical perfection” (General Anzeiger, Bonn), “remarkable insight” (Audiophile audition) “poetry and panoramic vision” (Washington Post), “riveting passion, playfulness” (Baltimore Sun) and “signature blend of lithe grace and raw power” (Lucid Culture.) Her October 2014 all-Beethoven CD release on MSR classics drew rave reviews: the disc’s preview on on WTTW called Faliks “High priestess of the piano, pianist of the highest order, as dramatic and subtle as a great stage actor.” Her previous, critically acclaimed CD on MSR Classics, Sound of Verse, was released in 2009, featuring music of Boris Pasternak, Rachmaninoff and Ravel. Her discography also includes a recital recording for the Yamaha Disklavier library. Recording projects in the works include a Brahms complete piano sonatas CD, Chopin solo and cello sonatas recording with cellist Wendy Warner, as well as “Polonaise-Fantasie, Story of a Pianist” – a recital of short piano works from Bach to Chopin and Carter, combined with essays written by Faliks, to be released on the Delos label.
Ms. Faliks’s distinguished career has taken her to thousands of recitals and concerti throughout the US, Asia, and Europe. Faliks has been featured on WQXR, WNYC, WFMT and many international television broadcasts, and has performed in major venues such as Carnegie Hall’s Weill Concert Hall, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Paris’ Salle Cortot, Chicago’s Orchestra Hall, Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Hall and in many important festivals such as Verbier, Portland International, Music in the Mountains, Brevard, Taos, International Keyboard Festival at Mannes, Bargemusic, and Chautauqua. Highlights of the recent seasons include a 2016 tour of China, with appearances in all the major halls such as Beijing Center for Performing Arts, Shanghai Oriental Arts Theater and Tianjin Grand Theater, as well as her acclaimed debuts at the Festival Intenacional de Piano in Mexico, in the Fazioli Series in Italy and in Israel’s Tel Aviv Museum, at Portland Piano Festival and with the Pacifica Chamber Players, a collaboration with the famed dance troupe Bodytraffic, and Jacaranda in Los Angeles. Recent return engagements include Newport Festival, Bargemusic and Le Poisson Rouge in NYC, Broad Stage Santa Monica, a tour of Canada, Salle Cortot in Paris.
She is regularly engaged as a concerto soloist nation-wide: recent appearances include Beethoven 4th with Minnesota Sinfonia, Peninsula Festival , where she played the 1st and 3rd Prokofiev Concerti in the same half of the program with Victor Yampolsky, Rachmaninoff 2nd concerto with Dmitry Sitkovetsky and Greensboro Symphony, Rachmaninoff 2nd with Vallejo Symphony, Gershwin Project with Daniel Meyer and the Erie Symphony, Clara Schumann Concerto at Wintergreen Festival, Beethoven 3rd with Evanston Symphony. She has played concerti under the batons of many conductors including Leonard Slatkin, Keith Lockhart, Edward Polochick, Daniel Meyer, Victor Yampolsky, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Neal Stulberg, and many others. Her chamber music partnerships include work with Gilbert Kalish, Ron Leonard, Fred Sherry, Ilya Kaler, Colin Carr, Wendy Warner, Clive Greensmith, Antonio Lysy, and others.
Faliks is the founder and curator of the of the Manhattan Arts Council award winning poetry-music series Music/Words, creating performances in collaboration with distinguished poets – www.musicwordsnyc.com . This poetry-music series has been described as “surreal, impactful, and relevant” (Lucid Culture). Her long standing relationship with WFMT radio has led to multiple broadcasts of Music/Words, which she had produced. Music/Words has been seen in venues such as the Poetry Foundation, at Royce Hall at UCLA, and in venues such as Le Poisson Rouge, NYC, Brooklyn Public Library, and Distinguished Artists Series in Santa Cruz, CA, in collaborations with some of the nation’s most widely recognized poets.
A strikingly versatile artist, Faliks’ is equally at home with standard repertoire, rare and new music, and interdisciplinary performances. She recently co-starred with Downton Abbey star Lesley Nicol in “Admission – One Shilling” ,a play for pianist and actor about the life of Dame Myra Hess, the great British pianist. She went on to create a one-woman show, performing at Baruch Performance Center’s “Solo in the City – Jewish Women, Jewish Stars” Festival in NYC, and at the Ebell of Los Angeles, where she gave the premiere of “Polonaise-Fantasie, Story of a Pianist”, an autobiographical monologue for pianist and actress, to be released on Delos label. in July 2017. Furthermore, she recently began a collaboration with WordTheater, featuring today’s leading screen actors in literary readings.
Constantly in dialogue with today’s composers, she is the creator of Reimagine: Ravel and Beethoven project, where composers such as Richard Danielpour, Timo Andres, Paola Prestini, Billy Childs, and others are writing works for her in response to Ravel’s Gaspard de la Nuit, which she has recorded and performed to international acclaim, and Beethoven’s Bagatelles opus 126. Last season, she had premiered Godai for Speaking Pianist, by Clarice Assad, written for her and her Music/Words series. She had given the NY, LA and Chicago premieres of 13 Ways of Looking at the Goldberg, variations by acclaimed contemporary composers on Bach’s Aria. Ms. Faliks performed and recorded the unknown piano works of Russian poet Boris Pasternak. At the Spertus Institute for Jewish Studies, she gave the North American premiere of Ilya Levinson’s Shtetle Suite and the world premiere of Ljova’s Sirota for piano and historical recording, written for her.
She was the winner of many prestigious competitions, including the Hilton Head International Competition and the coveted International Pro Musicis Award 2005. As Professor of Piano at UCLA, she is in demand as Artist Teacher, and is frequently invited to judge competitions and give masterclasses in major conservatories and universities. Her own past teachers included Leon Fleisher, Boris Petrushansky, Gilbert Kalish, Ann Schein, and Emilio del Rosario.
Inna Faliks is a Yamaha Artist. www.innafaliks.com
Tracks:
CD1
01. Rodion Shchedrin - 2 Polyphonic Pieces: No. 2, Basso ostinato
02. Today, Odessa Is Torn…
03. J.S. Bach - The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Prelude & Fugue No. 18 in G-Sharp Minor, BWV 863
04. In the Few Years of Early Lessons…
05. Jan Freidlin - Ballade in Black & White
06. The Word "Immigration" Popped Up…
07. Mozart - Fantasy No. 3 in D Minor, K. 397
08. Aunt Dolly & Uncle Ilya Took Us into Their Home…
09. Chopin-Liszt - 6 Polish Songs, S. 480: No. 1, The Maiden's Wish (After Chopin)
10. We Moved Closer to the School…
11. Paganini-Liszt - Grandes études de Paganini, S. 141: No. 3 in G-Sharp Minor "La campanella"
12. A Serious Student of Emilio del Rosario Meant…
CD2
01. Chopin - Polonaise-fantaisie in A-Flat Major, Op. 61
02. In Case You Think That by the 18th Century…
03. Gershwin - 3 Preludes: No. 1 in B-Flat Major
04. 3 Preludes: No. 2 in C-Sharp Minor
05. 3 Preludes: No. 3 in E-Flat Minor
06. We Emailed Each Other Nonstop…
07. Elliot Carter - Retrouvailles
08. The Festival Musicians Had Rooms…
09. P.I. Tchaikovsky - 6 Pieces, Op. 19, TH 133: No. 4, Nocturne in C-sharp minor
10. Amalia Was Very Angry…
11. Harrison Birtwistle - Oockooing Bird-Living with Music…
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