Piano music forms a large part of the output of the Romanian composer Livia Teodorescu-Ciocanea (b. 1959), as you would expect of someone who has been playing the instrument since she was four. This first album of her music reveals a latter-day Impressionist, sensitive to half-light and petal-delicate tonal color - but she can also generate powerful surges of energy, and her musical portrait of Charlie Chaplin testifies to an impish sense of humor. Teodorescu's music explores spectralism, neoimpressionism and postmodernism with a powerful lyric and dramatic effect (Oxford music online). She is Professor of composition at the National University of Music Bucharest and Adjunct Associate Professor at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. She introduced a new musical poetics called hypertimbralism pursuing intertextuality based on timbre. Teodorescu has lectured at Illinois Urbana Champaign, Oslo, Monash and Huddersfield Universities. She has written over 60 works.

Tracklist:

Endeavour Bells (Fantasy For Piano Solo)
Nocturniana (Fantasy After Chopin's Op. 27 No. 2)
Piano Sonatina: I. Lento
Piano Sonatina: II. Con Moto
Sonatina Buffa (Homage To Charlie Chaplin): I. Larghetto. Allegro Semplice
Sonatina Buffa (Homage To Charlie Chaplin): II. Lento Rubato
Sonatina Buffa (Homage To Charlie Chaplin): III. Più Mosso
Calypso (Fantasy For Piano Solo)
Piano Concerto No. 2 "Lebenskraft" (Arr. For Piano Duo): I. Vivo
Piano Concerto No. 2 "Lebenskraft" (Arr. For Piano Duo): II. Adagio
Piano Concerto No. 2 "Lebenskraft" (Arr. For Piano Duo): III. Con Spirito

UPC: 5060113444486
Label: Toccata
Release Date: 7.5.19
Format: CD

Teodorescu-Ciocanea / Smolyar - Music for Piano Duo (CD)