Name: Sonic Alchemy
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Musical alchemies are often forged in strange and unexpected ways, and this engaging album of music by Mozart, Pärt and Vasks is no exception. The two Pēteris Vasks compositions particularly... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2023 More…

Release Date: 15th Sep 2023
Catalogue No: DSL-92261
Label: Dorian Sono Luminus
Length: 68 minutes

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Vasks: Balta ainava [White Scenery]

Work length8:27

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Mina Gajić

Pärt: Fratres for Violin & Piano

Work length11:38

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Mina Gajić, Coleman Itzkoff

Mozart: Fantasia in D minor, K397

Work length6:00

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Mina Gajić

Pärt: Adagio (after Mozart)

Work length6:33

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YuEun Kim, Mina Gajić, Coleman Itzkoff

Mozart: Fantasia in C minor, K475

Work length12:13

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Mina Gajić

Vasks: Castillo interior

Work length13:07

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YuEun Kim, Coleman Itzkoff

Pärt: Spiegel im Spiegel

Work length10:24

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YuEun Kim, Mina Gajić

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"How do we even measure time? It is sometimes said that time is as old as humankind, but of course it isn’t. It’s just something we created out of a need for... what exactly? Earliest known evidence suggests we were measuring time already 5000 years ago. That way we could create predictability, for example concerning planting and harvesting. From there on we could more easily schedule and organize, which then helped us building a more sustainable life. When we had found a mutual understanding of what we would call time then other systems could be developed, kind of like a third-party software. Music notation works as a fine example. Today our life is synchronized “to the beat.” Not only is every single footstep kept track of by our telephones or every breath by our smart wrist watches – even our thoughts are as good as monitored as we scroll casually through advertisements on social media. Without us even realizing, the idea of time and synchronicity is apparently encrypted so deep in our consciousness that the thought of viewing the world without it is beyond our comprehension. That doesn’t change the fact that time as we understand it has not always been the same. Our ideas on time have changed throughout the centuries and will most probably continue to do so. The works on Sonic Alchemy are of composers who offer a new perspective on how we can perceive time, each in their own way. - Páll Ragnar Pálsson"

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November 2023

Musical alchemies are often forged in strange and unexpected ways, and this engaging album of music by Mozart, Pärt and Vasks is no exception. The two Pēteris Vasks compositions particularly shine through.

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