Canadian Music Centre | Games of the Night Wind Album Launch with Christina Petrowska Quilico
May 15 @ 7:30 pm - 10:30 pm
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The album Games of the Night Wind features 12 nocturnes by David Jaeger, along with other works inspired by the night, creating a dreamy musical landscape as performed by pianist Christina Petrowska Quilico. Sharp staccato and an increasingly startled momentum drives the image of an encounter with the shadows in Nocturne 11, The Alarm Bell, a weighty contrast to the deep rubato and heaving nostalgia in Nocturne 1, In Memory Of — yet both hail from the same thematic darkness that expands across the entirety of the album. These sensations are ever present in Tōru Takemitsu’s starry Les yeux clos, Alexandre Tansman’s complex and lyrical nocturnes, and two works by Górecki, whose Lullaby sings GAMES OF THE NIGHT WIND off to sleep.
GAMES OF THE NIGHT WIND plays to the unfettered wildness of the night, a force of nature encapsulated in every aspect of Petrowska Quilico and Jaeger’s musical and poetic collaboration, an elegant exploration for the night owl in us all.
Programme:
1. Töru Takemitsu – Les Yeux Clos
2. David Jaeger – Nocturne: The Murmur (Poetry by Seán Haldane)
3. Alexandre Tansman – Nocturne no.4
4. David Jaeger – Nocturne: Forget the Day (Poetry by Christina Petrowska Quilico)
5. David Jaeger – Nocturne: Games of the Night Wind (Poetry by Christina Petrowska Quilico)
6. Henryk Górecki – Lullaby
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Image: L-R David Trent Jaeger; Christina Petrowska Quilico (Photos courtesy of the artists)
