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大推薦!!かなりの高評価を受けた2019年1stアルバム[Ziadba]にて注目を浴び、そしてその翌年に発表されたフルート奏者Manuel Zurriaの集大成2CDアルバムにて名曲[Kvarteto]がカバーされた、自国の民謡、ブラックメタル、ジャズ、そしてペルトやフェルドマンからの影響を語るスロバキアの作曲家Adrian Democ。2018年〜2023年までのピアノ曲3曲を収録した2024年作。なんと本作のピアノ、あの特殊楽器"Sixth-Tone Harmonium"(Sub Rosaが企画音源の2CDを出版)を世界で唯一演奏出来るMiroslav Beinhauerが担当!!絶妙な感覚と余韻に身を委ねて頂きたい激推しの全編。





Piano is an album of three pieces, 'A Luca Marenzio ll', 'Ma fin est mon commencement', and 'Gebrechlichkeit', written by Slovak composer Adrián Demoč between 2018 and 2023.

'Ma fin est mon commencement' and 'Gebrechlichkeit' were written with three performance options in mind: specific instrumentation, open instrumentation with a similar quality of timbre and register, and a "monochromatic polyphonic" instrument, preferably the piano. 'A Luca Marenzio ll' was originally written as 'A Luca Marenzio' for three instruments, with cello (or viola da gamba) as the required instrument and the other two instruments flexible, and 'A Luca Marenzio II' is the 'well-tempered' counterpart to the original piece for solo piano.

"I was amazed when I heard Miroslav Beinhauer play this piece at a concert in Prague. He managed to create a slightly different timbre for each voice. It was mesmerizing." - Adrián Demoč

"Playing Adrián's music is like meditating but being above the music and 'controlling' the meditation at the same time. And it happens immediately, I don't need time to adjust, to get used to it." - Miroslav Beinhauer

The three pieces were performed and recorded by Beinhauer in the studio of Czech Radio Ostrava in the winter of 2023.