Echoes From An Empire [Karim Said] [OPUS ARTE: OACD9029D] Schoenberg, Berg, Webern, Bartok, Janacek, Webern and Enescu. Praised for the self-effacing intensity and intelligence of his playing, young Jordanian-born pianist Karim Said hailed by International Piano magazine as one to watch here presents a compelling programme of early twentieth-century music selected to mark the First World War centenary and which reveals his captivating style. Six unique personal languages are explored in this debut album, as Said recounts a period of dramatic social and artistic change that gave rise to an early modernist style imbued with fragments of the Romantic past. https://youtube/watch?v=CmuO66PuMWI&feature=em-share_video_user
Posted on: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 07:18:46 +0000