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Mistika

Composer and keyboardist Linda Ceff sets past and present inspirations beside her own contemporary works. Homages to Stravinsky, Messiaen and Skryabin sit with multi-tracked piano, synthesised colour, bells and Asian-inflected writing.

Linda Ceffpiano, tubular bells, glockenspiel, processed voice, synthesiser, tape
  • CatalogueMD 3168
  • Released1997
  • Playing time73 minutes 29 seconds
  • Recorded at Move Records Studio

Listen & tracks

1 of 16 tracks have a preview · 16 works · 73:29

  1. 1 Prelude, Op. 17: No. 3 Alexander Scriabin 2:00
  2. 2 Prelude, Op. 22: No. 4 Alexander Scriabin :46
  3. 3 Prelude and Variations Linda Ceff 7:51
  4. 4 Hymn Igor Stravinsky (from Serenade in A) 3:28
  5. 5 Carillon for Sacha Mark Pollard 2:43
  6. 6 Bells and Glock Linda Ceff 3:59
  7. 7 Baby Orang Utan Thomas Reiner :27
  8. 8 First Communion of the Virgin Olivier Messiaen 7:48
  9. 9 Baby Born to Love Linda Ceff 7:31
  10. 10 Newbells Linda Ceff 8:42
  11. 11 Prelude, Op. 74: No. 1 Alexander Scriabin 1:40
  12. 12 Prelude, Op. 74: No. 2 Alexander Scriabin 1:25
  13. 13 White Mass Sonata Alexander Scriabin (Sonata No. 7, Op. 64) 14:09
  14. 14 Ripple Linda Ceff 1:33
  15. 15 Mystic Linda Ceff 2:08
  16. 16 Mistika Linda Ceff 7:19

Paying homage to her influences, she places late Romantic and Modernist repertoire by Stravinsky, Messiaen and Skryabin next to her own pieces. Multi-tracking, synthesis, tubular bells and gamelan-tinged writing extend the keyboard’s reach.

Across the programme, birth, life and death, spirituality, philosophy and history are explored through the bending of traditional technique and the colour of processed sound.

Reviews

involving and beautifully performed.

— State of the Arts

a very engaging album.

— Warren Burt, CHROMA

Artists

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Linda Ceff

piano, tubular bells, glockenspiel, processed voice, synthesiser, tape

Linda Ceff is a composer, performer, musicologist and teacher who lives in Melbourne. She has a background of classical piano, voice training and is involved in computer music, performing in the community and research in spectral analysis.

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Olivier Messiaen

composer

Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992) was a French composer, organist and ornithologist whose colour-rich, rhythmically intricate music stands among the major achievements of the twentieth century.

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Mark Pollard

composer

Australian composer Mark Clement Pollard has an eclectic style that draws on improvisation, jazz, pop, minimalism and the indigenous musics of South-East Asia.

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Thomas Reiner

composer

Artistic Director of the ensemble re-sound, Thomas Reiner has received numerous awards for his compositions, including second prize in the International Witold Lutosławski Composers' Competition for Two Movements for Orchestra, the Dorian Le Gallienne Award, and the Albert H. Maggs Composition Award.

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Alexander Scriabin

composer

Alexander Scriabin's piano music moves from Chopin-inflected late Romanticism into a highly personal, dissonant language of poems, preludes and sonatas, culminating in works such as Vers la flamme and the White Mass Sonata.

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Igor Stravinsky

composer

Igor Stravinsky's music cracks open rhythm and colour: pagan rite and puppet theatre, Russian folk bite and cool neoclassical poise. From The Rite of Spring to Petrouchka and The Firebird, the writing still startles the ear.

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Performers

  • Linda Ceff · piano, tubular bells, glockenspiel, processed voice, synthesiser, tape

Technical credits

  • Recording Engineer Martin Wright (tracks 1, 2, 4, 8, 11–14)
    Vaughan McAlley (tracks 1, 2, 4, 8, 11–14)
  • Venue Move Records Studio (tracks 1, 2, 4, 8, 11–14)
  • Thanks to Creative Australia

Details

List price
$25.00 AUD
Total playing time
73 minutes 29 seconds
Release date
Categories
Australian, Classical, Keyboard
Genres
Contemporary Classical, Modernist Classical
Musical work copyright
© 1997 Move Records
Sound recording copyright
℗ 1997 Move Records
Catalogue
MD 3168
EAN
9314574316827

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