Christina Petrowska Quilico - Games of the Night Wind (2024) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Les Yeux Clos
02. Nocturne No. 1 - In Memory Of
03. Nocturne No. 2 - A Blessing
04. Nocturne No. 3 - Tumult
05. Nocturne No. 4 - The Murmur
06. Nocturne No. 1 - Moderato
07. Nocturne No. 2 - Moderato
08. Nocturne No. 3 - Moderato
09. Nocturne No. 4 - Lento
10. Nocturne No. 5 - The Holes of Night
11. Nocturne No. 6 - Forget the Day
12. Nocturne No. 7 - The Red Deer
13. Nocturne No. 8 - The House and You
14. Intermezzo
15. Nocturne No. 9 - Lament for the People of Ukraine
16. Nocturne No. 10 - Games of the Night Wind
17. Nocturne No. 11 - The Alarm Bell
18. Nocturne No. 12 - Conjure You
19. Lullaby (Kolysanka)

Described by the Oskar Morawetz Award jurors as a “legend” of Canadian musicians, Christina Petrowska Quilico joins lauded composer and champion of new music David Jaeger on GAMES OF THE NIGHT WIND, a dreamy musical landscape premiering 12 of Jaeger’s original nocturnes in addition to seven 20th century solo piano works.

Each nocturne invokes a different spirit of the night: deception, memory, redemption, realization, and many more, each brought to fruition by Petrowska Quilico’s evocative musicality. Sharp staccato and an increasingly startled momentum drives the image of an encounter with the shadows in Nocturne 11, The Alarm Bell, a weighty contrast to the deep rubato and heaving nostalgia in Nocturne 1, In Memory Of — yet both hail from the same thematic darkness that expands across the entirety of the album. These sensations are ever present in Tōru Takemitsu’s starry Les yeux clos, Alexandre Tansman’s complex and lyrical nocturnes, and two works by Górecki, whose Lullaby sings GAMES OF THE NIGHT WIND off to sleep.

GAMES OF THE NIGHT WIND plays to the unfettered wildness of the night, a force of nature encapsulated in every aspect of Petrowska Quilico and Jaeger’s musical and poetic collaboration, an elegant exploration for the night owl in us all.

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