The Music of Lubomyr Melnyk
All music on this CD was recorded in live performance, May 30, 1983 at Feedback Studio, Köln (Germany).
Sonnet Nr. 4 for Solo Piano from 1982 carries in its final melodic sequence of rapid notes, a dedication (or âsonnetâ) to love.
The Stone Knight is dedicated to the men who gave their lives to the concept of Knighthood and all that this entailed - a life of courage, sacrifice, strict moral values and deeply religious devotion â and defence of the weak. These concepts are mostly forgotten now â the world of today rarely sees any battles between men - the wars of today are mainly a matter of dropping bombs on defenceless children. â hence the timely joke about soldiers today: Kowards Killing Kids. While being an homage to these knights, the music also gives a panorama of the battle before the gates of a castle. The music opens with Stonecraft - a rapid atonal and motoristic sequence that in the end gradually opens out into a panorama of the battlefield and movements before the Gates â and further then into the Ramparts.
ROK-1 into Watersight is a performance of the Piano âAâ part from a long work titled âPage Musicâ, or as the title used in France, Corne d'Est. This music was originally composed for the French choreographer Kilina Cremona and her dance company from Lyon, in 1983. The full score for the dance performances of âCorne d'Estâ calls for 2 pianos and 3 contrabass. (A complete performance of this piece is available on a separate CD titled: The Eastern Horn.) The entire work is made up of many small sections (pages) that flow into one another in various free combinations. The music is fast and furious, with a strong atonal character. On the performance recorded here from the concert at Feedback Studio, the composer performs 2 sections, using just the first piano part, (Piano âAâ) of ROK-1 which flows into Watersight .
- Instruments
- Solo Piano, Double Piano
- Musicians
- Lubomyr Melnyk (Pianos)
- Total Playtime
- 60 minutes
- Year
- 1982/1983