Alex Raineri - A Story from the Sand Dunes: Solo Piano Works by Melody Eötvös (2024) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Piano Sonata No. 2 "A Story from the Sand Dunes": I. The Shore's Playground
02. Piano Sonata No. 2 "A Story from the Sand Dunes": II. The Party
03. Piano Sonata No. 2 "A Story from the Sand Dunes": III. Aesepige
04. Piano Sonata No. 2 "A Story from the Sand Dunes": IV. Your Crime Will Cost You Your Life
05. Piano Sonata No. 2 "A Story from the Sand Dunes": V. The King's Son Clasped His Maiden Fair
06. Six Minikins: I.
07. Six Minikins: II. For Taylah
08. Six Minikins: III.
09. Six Minikins: IV.
10. Six Minikins: V. Hailey's Minikin
11. Six Minikins: VI. Decembers
12. Danaid

Award-winning Australian composer Melody Eötvös communicates mystery and adventure within deeply sophisticated ideas in musical craft. For this album, she focuses on music for solo piano, with performances by internationally acclaimed ‘born communicator’ pianist Alex Raineri.

The main work, A Story from the Sand Dunes, draws on the Hans Christian Andersen story of the young man Jörgen, raised in humble circumstances among the fisher-folk of Jutland, unaware that he is the orphan son of a noble Spanish couple, whose ship was wrecked in a storm. Eötvös has given the movements whimsical titles that seem to suggest a ‘happy ever after’ ending, but this is no quaint fairy tale; it is a profoundly human story of love, loss and justice, its key scenes brought to life in Eötvös’ passionate and eloquent music.

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