Milking Darkness

Delta Piano Trio

Label: Challenge Classics
Catalogusnummer: CC 72963
EAN / barcode: 0608917296327
Verschijningsdatum: 28 september 2023
Type: Album

Genres: classical

If you mix every colour of paint together, you end up with black. Similarly, the darkness in the music of Lera Auberbach (b. 1973) consists of every imaginable shade of colour, from pitch darkness to dazzling light. The composer thus captures the mercuriality of life and the human psyche. Her music sometimes also depicts a dance with the inescapable: the struggle against Fate, the inexorable passing of time, an unattainable dream – but always with black humour and a dark though starlit sky. ‘Many composers create something “beautiful”, outside human reality,’ according to the Delta Piano Trio, who worked hard with Auberbach in preparing for this album. ‘Instead, Lera’s music is raw as well as human. She never eases up on what she wants to express, which would rob the music of all its fervour.’ It was Auerbach’s own idea to call this album Milking Darkness. The Delta Piano Trio feels that it is a fitting description not only of her work as a whole but also of the intense effect her music can have.

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Tracklist

01 Lonely Suite - Ballet for a Lonely Violinist, op 70: I. Dancing With Oneself 01:59
02 Lonely Suite - Ballet for a Lonely Violinist, op 70: II. Boredom 01:32
03 Lonely Suite - Ballet for a Lonely Violinist, op 70: III. No Escape 01:32
04 Lonely Suite - Ballet for a Lonely Violinist, op 70: IV. Imaginary Dialogue 02:57
05 Lonely Suite - Ballet for a Lonely Violinist, op 70: V. Worrisome Thought 01:10
06 Lonely Suite - Ballet for a Lonely Violinist, op 70: VI. Question 01:05
07 Piano Trio no. 4 18:34
08 Milking Darkness 10:03
09 Three Dances in the Old Style, op. 54: I. Andantino scherzando 01:43
10 Three Dances in the Old Style, op. 54: II. Andante 01:35
11 Three Dances in the Old Style, op. 54: III. Andante 01:21
12 Piano Trio no. 3: I. Grandioso 07:03
13 Piano Trio no. 3: II. Andante libero 04:43
14 Piano Trio no. 3: III. Adagio religioso 04:47
15 Piano Trio no. 3: IV. Allegro brutale 09:41