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Grieg: Lyric Pieces Books I - X (Excerpts) [CD on Demand] Naxos GRIEG Lyric Pieces Books I - X excerpts by Balazs Szokolay This product is manufactured on demand using CD-R recordable media Amazon coms standard return policy will apply Thomas Adès - Piano EMI Classics Imports To some hes the dazzling prince-elect of the new-music scene to others hes the spoiled brat decked out in an entire wardrobe of the emperors new clothes--and each side seems to preach to the converted Well whatever your take on the music of young British composer Thomas Ad s who has already written full-scale works in a stunning array of genres--from the sensitive cycle Five Eliot Landscapes to the op ra du scandale Powder Her Face and the symphony Asyla --give yourself an unprejudiced listen to Ad s as performer on the recital album Piano and youll discover yet another dimension to the musical world inhabited by the young upstart--one that holds manifold surprising delights The most obvious is of course the choice of program--and kudos to EMI for backing the bold choices Ad s has made--which flies against the current trend toward cozy familiarity or at best a mixture of chestnuts with scary unknowns Not that this is scary modern music instead its a gracious beguiling manifesto for the art of the piano miniature in modernist postmodernist neoclassical even late-romantic guises Even the familiar composers are represented by obscure works some peasant dances of Grieg some motley pages of little-known Stravinsky a sonatina of Busoni A lot of the fun here is in allowing yourself to discover some of the gems youll very likely never have heard before the personality-drenched enigmatic Paul Klee-like games of Kurt g one of Ad ss early mentors and--most of all--Alexey Stanchinskys completely enthralling Piano Sonata No 2 which also happens to be the longest work here though the varying senses of time each piece unravels become positively Einsteinian as the program progresses Ad s is like a kid in a candy shop sharing his enthusiasm with each discovery--its the perfect merger of personalities between performer and composer He doesnt play pyrotechnical showoff even in the head-spinning dual-tempo feats of the Nancarrow canons concluding the disc Rather he seems more interested in inviting his audience to participate in each given world Technique with insouciant energy and boundless humor--the entire recital is a blast --Thomas May