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Download Booklet Funding This recording is supported by grants from the Department of Music and the University Research Council of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Commercial Recording Featuring Solo Piano Works by Timo Andres and Phil Young was supported by New Music USA, made possible by annual program support and/or endowment gifts from Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, Helen F. Whitaker Fund, Aaron Copland Fund for Music. Folding Time CLARA YANG, PIANO WORKS BY MUCZYNSKI ANDRES CHOPIN YOUNG SCHUMANN WWW.ALBANYRECORDS.COM TROY1572 ALBANY RECORDS U.S. 915 BROADWAY, ALBANY, NY 12207 TEL: 518.436.8814 FAX: 518.436.0643 ALBANY RECORDS U.K. BOX 137, KENDAL, CUMBRIA LA8 0XD TEL: 01539 824008 © 2015 ALBANY RECORDS MADE IN THE USA DDD WARNING: COPYRIGHT SUBSISTS IN ALL RECORDINGS ISSUED UNDER THIS LABEL. Folding Time Folding Timo Andres (b. 1985) 13 How can I live in your world of ideas? [8:48] CLARA YANG, Folding Time Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) CLARA YANG, PIANO 14 Ballade No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 52 [11:27] Robert Muczynski (1929-2010) Phil Young (Yang Zhihua, b. 1952) PIANO TROY1572 Maverick Pieces, Op. 37 15 Reflection on a Tang Poem [7:28] 1 Allegro marcato [:37] 2 Andante sostenuto [1:28] Robert Schumann (1810-1856) 3 Allegro ma non troppo [:50] Humoreske, Op. 20 4 Moderato [1:42] 16 Einfach — Sehr rasch und leicht [5:39] 5 Allegro [:41] 17 Hastig [4:55] 6 Andante sostenuto [1:42] 18 Einfach und zart — Intermezzo [4:32] 7 Allegro grazioso [:53] 19 Innig [2:34] 8 Allegro brillante [:35] 20 Sehr lebhaft — Mit einigem Pomp [3:16] 9 Andante molto [1:32] 21 Zum Beschluss [6:06] 10 Allegro ma non troppo [1:02] 11 Adagio [:54] Total Time = 68:59 [ ] 12 Allegro con spirito 1:40 TROY1572 PIANO CLARA YANG, WWW.ALBANYRECORDS.COM TROY1572 ALBANY RECORDS U.S. 915 BROADWAY, ALBANY, NY 12207 TEL: 518.436.8814 FAX: 518.436.0643 ALBANY RECORDS U.K. BOX 137, KENDAL, CUMBRIA LA8 0XD TEL: 01539 824008 © 2015 ALBANY RECORDS MADE IN THE USA DDD WARNING: COPYRIGHT SUBSISTS IN ALL RECORDINGS ISSUED UNDER THIS LABEL. Folding Time Folding The Performer Sessions, and the Aspen Music Festival. An avid chamber musician, she has collaborated with artists such as members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Opera Orchestra, the San Praised by New York Arts for her “effortless and smooth” technique and her “devastatingly limpid Diego Symphony, and the Hong Kong Philharmonic. and pliable” tone, Chinese-American pianist Clara Yang has performed in notable venues and series such as Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, Remonstrantse Kerk (The Netherlands), the Seymour Centre A sought-after teacher, Ms. Yang has frequently given masterclasses in the United States and (Sydney, Australia), the Barclay Theater (Irvine, California), Kodak Hall at the Eastman Theater abroad in major universities and conservatories such as the Liceu Conservatory in Spain, King’s (Rochester, New York), the Sunset Center (Carmel, California), Meymandi Concert Hall (Raleigh, College London, and Duke University in North Carolina. She has been Assistant Professor of Piano North Carolina), Carolina Performing Arts Series, (Chapel Hill, North Carolina), Dame Myra Hess Series at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since 2011. Her students have won prizes in state, (Chicago Cultural Center), and Mas i Mas at the Museu d’Història de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain). national, and international competitions. She was featured as one of the three scholars in the acclaimed Chinese national magazine Globe in 2014. Her live solo recitals were broadcast on ABC Classic FM in Australia and New Zealand, 98.7 WFMT, and on Wayne Picciano’s Grand Piano series, which was broadcast on television in multiple states across Ms. Yang received her D.M.A. in piano performance at the Eastman School of Music, where she was the country. Concert highlights as a soloist include performances with the European Union Youth a student and teaching assistant of Nelita True. She studied with Claude Frank at the Yale School Orchestra under Vladimir Ashkenazy, the Eastman Philharmonia under Jeff Tyzik, the Pacific Symphony of Music (M.M., Artist Diploma) and graduated magna cum laude from the University of Southern Orchestra under Carl St. Clair, the Longview Symphony under Tonu Kalam, and numerous appearances California as a student of John Perry. Her former principal teachers during her pre-college years with the North Carolina Symphony under Grant Llewellyn. Her cello-piano duo album Grieg and Prokofiev include Profs. Hans Boepple, Zhou Guang-ren (Central Conservatory, Beijing), Huili Li, and Xie Yuan. with Los Angeles Opera cellist Xiao-Dan Helen Zheng was released by Albany Records in 2014. This She has also worked with numerous renowned performers and pedagogues, such as Boris Berman, album won a Global Music Awards Silver Medal, and it has been aired on Montana Public Radio Peter Frankl, Karl Heinz Kammerling, Robert Levin, Lee Kum-Sing, Jerome Lowenthal, David Shifrin, KUFM 89.1 FM, Women in Music CKWR FM 98.5 (Canada), and WCPE 89.7 FM (North Carolina) with a the Emerson String Quartet, the Ysaye String Quartet, and the Raphael Trio. featured interview. She recorded Lee Weisert’s Érard, which was written for her, for Weisert’s album Wild Arc on the New Focus label. Her upcoming major project includes collaboration with renowned composer Chen Yi, who will write a concerto for her to perform with the China Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Long Yu in the Carolina Performing Arts Series in the 2016-17 season. The Music Folding Time explores the connection between the past and the present. American composers Robert As a guest artist, Ms. Yang has given successful solo recitals in numerous major conservatories and Muczynski, Timo Andres, and Phil Young have distinct compositional styles, yet their works contain universities internationally, including the Musical College of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory elements that convey a sense of nostalgia for the past musical eras. In particular, their pieces on this in Russia, King’s College London, the Liceu Conservatory, the Cervera Conservatory, and the Manresa album contain certain structural traits, sentiments, or concepts influenced by the Romantic era. The Conservatory in Spain, the Beijing Central Conservatory, the Shanghai Conservatory, and the Central three modern pieces are interspersed with two major 19th-century Romantic works – Chopin’s Ballade Conservatory Piano Academy in Xiamen, China. She has performed in renowned music festivals such No. 4 and Schumann’s Humoreske. Anachronistic forays are often a part of the compositional landscape as the Music Academy of the West, the Sarasota Music Festival, the International Holland Music today. In that sense, we look back to the past, but the past is also vividly alive in our present day. An innovative traditionalist, Robert Muczynski was a major American composer who was born in Schumann’s Humoreske has always occupied a special place in my heart since my time at Yale as a Chicago. Using many traditional techniques to portray abstract concepts, his piano compositions are student of Claude Frank. German writer Jean Paul’s writing was a source of inspiration for this work. often concise and descriptive. Maverick Pieces are a set of twelve short character pieces composed According to Schumann scholar John Daverio, Jean Paul defines “humor” as an “infinity of contrast” in 1977. These rarely performed pieces alternate between the exciting and the lyrical, reminiscent and a “setting of the small world besides the great,” so when viewed together, “a kind of laughter of the 19th-century character pieces in structure. Jazz elements and Bartok’s rhythmic influence are results which contains pain and greatness.” Schumann wrote in a letter to his beloved wife Clara also apparent. The brevity of these pieces allows them to be heard as a whole. Wieck from Vienna in 1839, “All week I’ve been sitting at the piano and composing and writing and laughing and crying, all at the same time. You will find this beautifully illustrated in my Opus 20, Schumann is a major influence in Timo Andres’ music. How can I live in your world of ideas was the great Humoreske.” completed in 2007. It starts out as a passacaglia or theme and variations, but is then gradually —CLARA YANG overtaken by extraneous material from somewhere else entirely. Originally written for two pianos as part of Shy and Mighty, he transcribed it for a solo pianist. In its solo version, the pianist must work much more strenuously to denote the mercurial transitions (“needle-drops”), which characterize the piece. The quotations of Chopin and other familiar themes evoke the sound and ideas of the past centuries. The Composers Timo Andres (b. 1985, Palo Alto, CA) is a composer and pianist who grew up in rural Connecticut, Shifting back to the Romantic period, Chopin’s Ballade No.4 was written in 1842 in Paris and Nohant, studied at Yale University and now lives in Brooklyn, New York. A Nonesuch Records artist, his newest and it was revised in 1843. The most challenging ballade of the set, its thematic development and album of orchestral works, Home Stretch, has been hailed for its “playful intelligence and individuality,” harmonic modulations are complex and fascinating. Thematic materials are slowly transformed in (The Guardian) and of his 2010 debut album for two pianos, Shy and Mighty, Alex Ross wrote in The various textures. Drama unfolds organically and culminates in a coda of great emotional intensity. New Yorker that “it achieves an unhurried grandeur that has rarely been felt in American music since An epic story is told in a mere twelve minutes. John Adams came on the scene... more mighty than shy, [Andres] sounds like himself.” Phil Young’s Reflection on a Tang Poem was commissioned for this album in 2014.
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