Svetozar Ivanov - Intermissions (2020)

In his latest album Intermissions, pianist Svetozar Ivanov continues his tradition of creating compact discs with thematic unity and artistic cohesiveness. In the year of Beethovens 250th anniversary, Svetozar Ivanov juxtaposes the composers last Piano Sonata in C Minor op. 111 with Contrapunctus I from J. S. Bachs last work The Art of Fugue, and Mozarts Sonata K. 330 in C Major. Four Intermissions, by the American avant-garde composer Morton Feldman, who describes the peace and timelessness of these works as vibrating stasis, serve as an audio palate cleanser between each work. The album cover displays one of Edward Hoppers last paintings Intermission, a powerful representation of a solitary figure in a public space. Intermissions is Svetozar Ivanovs fifth solo album with Gega New. In a fast-paced world where one rarely listens to an entire album, he keeps producing albums with unifying feel and pace, ones that ideally should be experienced as a complete concert.