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Ornstein: Piano Music

~ Leo Ornstein (Artist)
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Product details

  • Audio CD (19 Jul 2002)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Hyperion
  • ASIN: B00006B1LA
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 149,786 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Suicide In An Airplane
2. A La Chinoise, Op.39
3. Danse Sauvage, Op.13 No.2
4. No.1. No Man's Land - Andante Espressivo
5. No.2. The Sower Of Despair - Moderato
6. No.3. The Orient In Flanders - Andantino (Molto Espressivo)
7. No.4. The Wrath Of The Despoiled - Sostenuto (Molto Appassionato)
8. No.5. Night Brooding Over The Battlefield - Moderato E Misterioso
9. No.6. A Dirge Of The Trenches - Lento
10. No.7. Song Behind The Lines - Andante Con Moto E Malinconioso
11. No.8. The Battle - Allegro E Molto Appassionato
12. No.9. Army At Prayer - Allegro, Ma Non Troppo
13. No.10. Dance Of The Dead - Vivo (Con Fuoco)
14. No.1. The Isle Of Elephantine
15. No.2. Primal Echo
16. No.3. Chant Of Hindoo Priests
17. No.4. Shadowed Waters
18. No.5. A Melancholy Landscape
19. No.6. Pompeian Fresco
20. No.7. Passion
See all 29 tracks on this disc
On this CD:
  1. Suicide in an Airplane
    Composed by Leo Ornstein
    with Marc-André Hamelin

  2. A la Chinoise
    Composed by Leo Ornstein
    with Marc-André Hamelin

  3. Wild Men's Dance
    Composed by Leo Ornstein
    with Marc-André Hamelin

  4. Arabesques
    Composed by Leo Ornstein
    with Marc-André Hamelin

  5. Sonata for Piano No 8
    Composed by Leo Ornstein
    with Marc-André Hamelin

  6. Poems of 1917
    Composed by Leo Ornstein
    with Marc-André Hamelin

  7. Impressions de la Tamise
    Composed by Leo Ornstein
    with Marc-André Hamelin

Product Description

Amazon.co.uk Review
Thank heavens for small independent labels, without whom an enterprise like this would these days be unthinkable: this disc of piano works by Leo Ornstein, which includes "Suicide in an Airplane", with its brilliantly informative liner-note, represents the rediscovery of a lost world. The biographical facts are remarkable enough: this pianist-composer from the Ukraine was born in 1892 or 1893--the truth was irrevocably obscured when his synagogue-cantor father faked his age to gain him admission to the St Petersburg conservatoire. Ornstein proceeded thence on a maverick musical career in which he gave American premières of works by Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Debussy, Ravel, Bartók, and Kodály. Meanwhile his compositions veered between extreme atonal radicalism and sweetly romantic tonality: this CD reflects both polarities, which sometimes occur in the same piece.

The incomparable Marc-André Hamelin is in the driving seat, which is just as well since the multi-stave scores of some of these turbulent works are almost black with notes. As eccentric as Ives--though in a completely different way--Ornstein writes big compositions with a narrative drive, and miniatures which are often driven by the impulse of a single visual image. "Poems of 1917" comes across like an idealised score for a silent-film; other miniatures are expressive gems which need no pretext. The concluding sonata--completed when the composer was in his 90s--is a heady blend of Debussy, Ravel, Scriabin and Stravinsky, which triumphantly transcends the mere sum of its parts. --Michael Church

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5.0 out of 5 stars The best CD around, 30 Mar 2004
By Rrose Selavy (somewhere not quiet enough) - See all my reviews
This is 'the' Desert Island Disc. Luckily I bought this CD never having heard of the composer but solely because I was intrigued by the title 'Suicide in an Airplane'. Quite simply the best CD on the market. Since first listening to it almost a year ago I have never been able to listen to Chopin, Scriabin, Debussy, or Liszt again. For me it represents the pinnacle of classical music, Suicide in and Airplane has all the pathos of Penderecki's Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima, all the dynamism of Liszt's Pieces sur un theme transcendante, but is a lot more easily listened to, it is darkly mesmerising. Dance Sauvage is also a masterpiece as is A la chinoise. The best piece however is Primal Echo. The only piece I can think to compare it to is Carl Ruggles' Suntreader which is similarly brilliant. The music is again intensely absorbing the only way I can think to describe it is controlled wrecklessness (as odd as that sounds). A week after listening to the Primal Echo it kept streaming back into my mind during lectures and completely destroyed my concentration. Ornstein achieves a miracle in these pieces, he creates listenable Avant-Garde music. You won't ever want to stop listening to this CD, you won't ever want to leave your seat after it finishes. Through the looking glass music indeed! (probably the best money I ever spent - though there was the cinema ticket for Alain Resnais' Last Year in Marienbad).
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5.0 out of 5 stars The best CD around, 30 Mar 2004
By Rrose Selavy (somewhere not quiet enough) - See all my reviews
This is 'the' Desert Island Disc. Luckily I bought this CD never having heard of the composer but solely because I was intrigued by the title 'Suicide in an Airplane'. Quite simply the best CD on the market. Since first listening to it almost a year ago I have never been able to listen to Chopin, Scriabin, Debussy, or Liszt again. For me it represents the pinnacle of classical music, Suicide in and Airplane has all the pathos of Penderecki's Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima, all the dynamism of Liszt's Pieces sur un theme transcendante, but is a lot more easily listened to, it is darkly mesmerising. Dance Sauvage is also a masterpiece as is A la chinoise. The best piece however is Chant of Hindoo priests part of the Arabesques. The only piece I can think to compare it to is Carl Ruggles' Suntreader which is similarly brilliant. The music is again intensely absorbing the only way I can think to describe it is controlled wrecklessness (as odd as that sounds). A week after listening to the Chant it kept streaming back into my mind during lectures and completely destroyed my concentration. Ornstein achieves a miracle in these pieces, he creates listenable Avant-Garde music. You won't ever want to stop listening to this CD, you won't ever want to leave your seat after it finishes. Through the looking glass music indeed! (probably the best money I ever spent - though there was the cinema ticket for Alain Resnais' Last Year in Marienbad).
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