A Fearful Fairy Tale

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A Fearful Fairy Tale

Label TRPTK

Artists Helena Basilova

€29,99 EUR

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A Fearful Fairy Tale is Helena Basilova’s latest solo album. The album is dedicated to fairytales, a tribute to fantasy, and the unknown and all magical in our world. With works by Medtner, Prokofiev, Schnittke, and Myaskovsky the album depicts mystery and is used as a starting point to collaborate with other artists. There are two words for truth in Russian: Pravda for objective truth and Ishtina for transcendental truth, that what you know but cannot explain. While Helena’s previous solo albums - with music from Janacek and Scriabin - were each in their own way quite personal to her, this time she wanted more Ishtina than Pravda. She wanted a story that was not just personal for her but representative of her. And Helena’s personal story is one of multitudes. Of departures and forgetting, discovery and loss, of glimmers of understanding, and feelings of coherence in oceans of confusing false certainties. This collection of music is meant as a story in itself, each piece included for the power it has to forge a connection that needed the story to be forged. And so it was with the piece that inspired the album. This album - of stories and a story in itself - is Helena’s tribute, to fairy tales and her homeland. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnHHXOk5Mhw

Tracklist

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Total time: 59:57

1. Fairy tale about the forgotten homeland - I. The first snow

01:03

2. Yellowed leaves, Op. 31 - I. Andante

02:21

3. Yellowed leaves, Op. 31 - II. Un poco sostenuto, malinconico e abbandonamente

01:57

4. Yellowed leaves, Op. 31 - III. Andante cantabile

01:08

5. Yellowed leaves, Op. 31 - IV. Molto vivace e fantastico

02:24

6. Yellowed leaves, Op. 31 - V. Molto calmo, ma non troppo lento

02:24

7. Yellowed leaves, Op. 31 - VI. Vivo

02:42

8. Yellowed leaves, Op. 31 - VII. Moderato

03:48

9. A fearful fairy tale, Op. 171

05:46

10. Tales of an old grandmother, Op. 31 - I. Moderato

01:55

11. Tales of an old grandmother, Op. 31 - II. Andantino

01:14

12. Pohadka (fairy tale), JW VII-5 - I. Con moto

04:59

13. Pohadka (fairy tale), JW VII-5 - II. Con moto

04:01

14. Pohadka (fairy tale), JW VII-5 - III. Allegro

02:36

15. Piano sonata No. 1, Op. 129 - I. Largo

06:24

16. Three tales, Op. 9 - II. Allegro alla serenata, con alcuna licenza

04:07

17. Four tales, Op. 34 - II. Allegro cantabile e leggiero

02:30

18. Four tales, Op. 26 - III. Narrante a piacere

02:26

19. Two tales, Op. 20 - II. Pesante. Minaccioso

04:03

20. Fairy tale about the forgotten homeland - II. Winter dance

02:09

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Additional Information

Label

TRPTK

SKU

TTK0041

Qualities

FLAC 96 kHz, FLAC 192 kHz, DSD 64, DSD 128, DSD 256, DSD 512, DXD 24 Bit

Channels

2ch Stereo, 5ch Surround, 2ch Stereo & 5ch Surround

Artists

Helena Basilova

Composers

Bagri, Medtner, Schnittke, Janacek, Prokofiev, Firsova, Myaskovsky

Genres

Classical

Original Recording Format

DXD

Instruments

Piano

Release Date

August 02, 2019

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A Fearful Fairy Tale

A Fearful Fairy Tale

€29,99 EUR

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