GOD 46
Georges Aperghis
Piano Music
LP
Georges Aperghis
Piano Music
LP
Lenio Liatsou - Piano, Voice
Georges Aperghis is probably still not much associated,
by the public that internationally attends performances of his works,
with music for solo piano.
Music-theatre – of an uncommonly original kind,
with extended vocal techniques much to the fore –
has usually been his stamping ground.
The concerns that his operas and other music-theatre compositions have embraced – often focusing around a highly individual approach
to words and to all aspects of language,
developed with great musical sophistication,
resulting in what one might call a kind of sound poetry –
are not among those immediately linked to the
note-against-note preoccupations of which one tends
to think where music for the piano is involved.
This instrument’s 88 keys, and the two hands of its
(usually firmly seated) keyboard operative,
are normally engaged to less obviously ‘theatrical’ ends.
by the public that internationally attends performances of his works,
with music for solo piano.
Music-theatre – of an uncommonly original kind,
with extended vocal techniques much to the fore –
has usually been his stamping ground.
The concerns that his operas and other music-theatre compositions have embraced – often focusing around a highly individual approach
to words and to all aspects of language,
developed with great musical sophistication,
resulting in what one might call a kind of sound poetry –
are not among those immediately linked to the
note-against-note preoccupations of which one tends
to think where music for the piano is involved.
This instrument’s 88 keys, and the two hands of its
(usually firmly seated) keyboard operative,
are normally engaged to less obviously ‘theatrical’ ends.
excerpt form liner notes by Keith Potter