Michael Foyle | Maksim Stsura

Michael Foyle | Maksim Stsura: The Great War Centenary (Download)

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Michael Foyle | Maksim Stsura

Michael Foyle | Maksim Stsura: The Great War Centenary (Download)

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The Great War Centenary

Michael Foyle | Maksim Stsura

Challenge Classics, HQ|NORTHSTAR

Catalogue CC72786

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About the Album

‘Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and yet cannot remain silent’, wrote Victor Hugo in 1864. Half a century later, his words had never felt more pertinent. Every composer writing during World War I found a unique way, through their music, to describe and protest against the horrors that were tearing civilization apart.

Created in the depth of morbidity, Debussy’s parting musical gift is a subtle, dignified and heroic celebration of youth and joie de vivre. A sense of patriotism in the war years links Debussy with the foremost Moravian composer of the day, Leoš Janáček. Ottorino Respighi was only in his thirties when the war broke out. His 1917 Sonata for violin and piano is a work of Romance written in the time of hate, a reminder that the past and the future remain beacons of hope in desperate times.

Commissioned for this recital programme to reflect on the centenary of The Great War from our own times, Kenneth Hesketh’s Inscrizione, derivata, subtitled ‘A lie to the Dying’, is a quasi-meditation on the dying man, his anxious thoughts and the spasms of his failing heart being weaved conspicuously into a narrative of disquieting melancholy.


Album tracks

  1. L.140 I Allegro vivo

  2. L.140 II Intermede_ Fantastique et leger

  3. L.140 III Finale_Tres anime

  4. JW 7 I Con moto Senza rigore

  5. JW 7 II Balada Con moto

  6. JW 7 III Allegretto

  7. JW 7 IV Adagio

  8. Inscrizione Derivata (A Lie To The Dying)

  9. P.110 I Moderato

  10. P.110 II Andanto espressivo

  11. P.110 III Passacaglia_Allegro moderato ma energico



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