【瓦连京·西尔韦斯特罗夫】乡愁 (Valentine Silvestrov - Nostalghia, for piano) (2001)

Valentine Silvestrov - Nostalghia, for piano (2001)

Jenny Lin (piano)

Nostalghia is music stripped bare. The fragments of melody, interrupted by profound stillness, float like hazy memories. Half-recalled scales, beautiful in their childlike impairment, recall Brian Eno's Music for Airports. But Silvestrov has calculated every nuance. The lingering mist is achieved by painstaking instructions in pedaling. Silvestrov asks for the sustaining pedal to be depressed just two-thirds of the way in strategic places. He also determines which notes of the preceding harmony to hold in order to mask the pedaling changes. At the end, the music suddenly evaporates, leaving you yearning for final notes while holding fast to those just heard.