Piano Music by Elena Kats-Chernin

Release Date: 8th Jul 2016
Catalogue No: ABC4812625
Label: ABC Classics
Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

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Kats-Chernin: Butterflying

Work length4:16

Tamara-Anna Cislowska (piano)
Recorded: 2016

Kats-Chernin: Afterwards

Work length4:44

Tamara-Anna Cislowska (piano), Elena Kats-Chernin (piano)
Recorded: 2016

Kats-Chernin: Conversation

Work length2:33

Tamara-Anna Cislowska (piano), Elena Kats-Chernin (piano)
Recorded: 2016

Kats-Chernin: Russian Rag

Work length3:19

Tamara-Anna Cislowska (piano), Elena Kats-Chernin (piano)
Recorded: 2016

Kats-Chernin: For Richard

Work length7:12

Tamara-Anna Cislowska (piano), Elena Kats-Chernin (piano)
Recorded: 2016

Kats-Chernin: All Things Conspire

Work length2:39

Tamara-Anna Cislowska (piano)
Recorded: 2016

Kats-Chernin: Eliza's Aria

Work length4:53

Tamara-Anna Cislowska (piano), Elena Kats-Chernin (piano)
Recorded: 2016

Kats-Chernin: The Rain Puzzle

Work length1:14

Tamara-Anna Cislowska (piano)
Recorded: 2016

Kats-Chernin: Vocalise

Work length10:12

Tamara-Anna Cislowska (piano)
Recorded: 2016

Kats-Chernin: Lullaby for Nick

Work length3:23

Tamara-Anna Cislowska (piano), Elena Kats-Chernin (piano)
Recorded: 2016

Kats-Chernin: Waltz of Things Past

Work length4:30

Tamara-Anna Cislowska (piano)
Recorded: 2016

Kats-Chernin: Cinema

Work length1:20

Tamara-Anna Cislowska (piano)
Recorded: 2016

Kats-Chernin: Marcato

Work length2:46

Tamara-Anna Cislowska (piano), Elena Kats-Chernin (piano)
Recorded: 2016

Kats-Chernin: Slicked Back Tango

Work length2:18

Tamara-Anna Cislowska (piano), Elena Kats-Chernin (piano)
Recorded: 2016

Kats-Chernin: Blue Tears

Work length3:05

Tamara-Anna Cislowska (piano)
Recorded: 2016

Kats-Chernin: Autumn

Work length3:37

Tamara-Anna Cislowska (piano)
Recorded: 2016

Kats-Chernin: Black Tie

Work length2:04

Tamara-Anna Cislowska (piano)
Recorded: 2016

Kats-Chernin: Dance of the Paper Umbrellas

Work length4:07

Tamara-Anna Cislowska (piano), Elena Kats-Chernin (piano)
Recorded: 2016

Kats-Chernin: Scherzino

Work length5:48

Tamara-Anna Cislowska (piano), Elena Kats-Chernin (piano)
Recorded: 2016

Kats-Chernin: Blue Silence

Work length8:03

Tamara-Anna Cislowska (piano)
Recorded: 2016

Kats-Chernin: Zerno

Work length2:46

Tamara-Anna Cislowska (piano), Elena Kats-Chernin (piano)
Recorded: 2016

Kats-Chernin: Play Properly

Work length0:35

Tamara-Anna Cislowska (piano)
Recorded: 2016

Kats-Chernin: Russian Toccata

Work length3:00

Tamara-Anna Cislowska (piano), Elena Kats-Chernin (piano)
Recorded: 2016

Kats-Chernin: Adrift

Work length5:44

Tamara-Anna Cislowska (piano)
Recorded: 2016

Kats-Chernin: Naive Waltz

Work length2:59

Tamara-Anna Cislowska (piano)
Recorded: 2016

Kats-Chernin: Chorale

Work length2:40

Tamara-Anna Cislowska (piano)
Recorded: 2016

Kats-Chernin: Schubert Blues

Work length12:34

Tamara-Anna Cislowska (piano)
Recorded: 2016

Kats-Chernin: The Rain Puzzle - Many Hands Remix

Work length4:57

Tamara-Anna Cislowska (piano), Elena Kats-Chernin (piano)
Recorded: 2016

Kats-Chernin: Sunshine Journal

Work length10:15

Tamara-Anna Cislowska (piano), Elena Kats-Chernin (piano)
Recorded: 2016

1. Allegro

Track length2:34

3. Moderato

Track length4:40

4. Vivace

Track length3:01

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Performed by ARIA-Award winner Tamara-Anna Cislowska and the composer herself, Butterflying is the first major survey of the piano music of Elena Kats-Chernin.

Ever since her childhood in Uzbekistan, the piano has been – in her own words – Kats-Chernin’s ‘best friend’. At the age of six she wrote her first piano piece, Lullaby, which she later revised for her youngest son and is presented on this album as Lullaby for Nick. From this work to pieces written in 2015, Butterflying presents the full range of Kats-Chernin’s extraordinary compositional palette. Irresistibly lyrical works such as Waltz of Things Past and Butterflying (originally composed for the opening ceremony of the 2003 Rugby World Cup), rags and waltzes, and iconic works such as Eliza Aria and Slicked Back Tango.

The album features 14 world premiere recordings.

Many of the pieces are performed solo by Tamara-Anna Cislowska. Others are presented in versions for piano four hands, with Elena joining Tamara-Anna to resume their long-standing friendship and collaboration in performances which are half-composed, half-improvised.

Tamara-Anna Cislowska is one of Australia’s most acclaimed pianists, and in 2015 won the ARIA Award for Best Classical Album for her survey of the solo piano music of Peter Sculthorpe – an album which also won Editor’s Choice in BBC Music Magazine and was described as ‘a profoundly affecting release’ by Gramophone magazine.

Piano Music by Elena Kats-Chernin

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