Lineage | Tracing Influence
Deborah Grimmett, piano
Album comes in an eco-friendly digipak with liner notes by the artist.
Featured in the New York Times, and broadcast on CBC Music, and RTÉ Lyric fm, Lineage: Tracing Influence has been praised by the WholeNote Magazine as being “wonderfully expressive”, and “a meaningful and deeply personal recording”. Ms. Grimmett has been described as a pianist of “considerable musical talent”, and noted for "exhibiting a deft touch and clear musicality” (the WholeNote).
IMAN HABIBI
Piano Sonata (Voyage), 2013
2. I. Innocence 4:58
3. II. Distance 4:18
4. III. Resonance 3:20
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Vier Klavierstücke, Op. 119, 1893
5. Intermezzo in B minor: Adagio
6. Intermezzo in E minor: Andantino un poco agitato
7. Intermezzo in C major: Grazioso e giocoso
8. Rhapsody in E flat major: Allegro risoluto
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Estampes, 1903
9. Pagodes
10. La soirée dans Grenade
11. Jardins sous la pluie
OTTORINO RESPIGHI
12. Notturno, 1904
CREDITS
Audio Engineer: Dennis Patterson
Assistant audio engineer: Pouya Hamidi
Session producer: David Jaeger
Assistant producer: Iman Habibi
Editing and mastering: David Jaeger
Photography: Iman Habibi
Graphic Design: Kristan Toczko
Liner Notes: Deborah Grimmett
Recorded at the Glenn Gould Studio, Toronto, on October 21, 29, and November 4, 2019.
The support of FACTOR (the Foundation Assisting Canadian Talent on Recordings) and Canada Council for the Arts is gratefully acknowledged.
Album comes in an eco-friendly digipak with liner notes by the artist.
Liner notes excerpt:
"Lineage: Tracing Influence is a celebration of the multifaceted roots of both the music on the disc, and of myself as an artist: an interweaving of my ancestral lineage, my roots by marriage, my pedagogical origins, and the way in which they intersect with the inspiration behind the pieces themselves."
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