Everything is connected. Our daily lives are a testimony to this simple wisdom: manifestations of surprising interconnections between apparent strangers, childhood experiences influencing our likes and aversions, strange laws of cause and effect - past, present and future.
In music, we find it impossible to isolate ourselves from other traditions. We exist in an interconnected web that knits together musicians from bygone eras with those working today, ever extending a bridge to the future.
Pianist Xenia Pestova makes musical connections through astute musical pairings of old and new music.
Xenia Pestova Recital - Part 1
Debussy: La cathédrale engloutie, from Preludes Bk I
Ed Bennett: Gothic
D Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonatas in D K9 & D minor K10
Alessandrini: Étude d’après Scarlatti
Kwiatkowska: After brin
Berio: Feuerklavier; Wasserklavier, from Six Encores
Bach: Prelude No 6 in C minor, from Six Little Preludes
Glenda Keam: Mind Springs (première)
Recorded 30 July 2017, St Andrew's on The Terrace, Wellington by RNZ Concert.