Album Notes

Love Songs - By Darian Stavans.

Darian Stavans - Piano.

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Only with love lit and respect, love finds no boundaries ...

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PRODUCT DESCRIPTION


CD Loves Songs joins a large collection of "love songs" albums we have accumulated through time. Important popular musical exponents like Mr. Elton John or George Michael have honored this musical form of expression by doing their own albums, gathering great compilations of good tasted love songs written by huge icons of music. Also in the classical music world, we have other great composers who have approached themselves as musicians to the topic and transformed the genre into their own personal and musical style. One of the most important of all is the collection of "Songs Without Words" by composer Felix Mendelssohn who achieved great level of music charisma with this lovely musical shortworks. This CD Love Songs is another example of "love songs" without words. Images like landscapes, night scenes, daydreams and ocean views, mix with nostalgic feelings, smooth ballads and light melodies in order to create and gather a group of love songs that satisfy this musical form. It is a CD to enjoy, to background listening and to enrich your ear when you pay attention to it. Love songs have always been important in the music art writing to still believe that "love" honors our lives.

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ABOUT THE ARTIST


Evocative is a word that has been used to describe, or better said, react to the music of Darian Stavans. Evocative? One would imagine that such a music would bring to the mind and heart shared memories, but one does not necessarily share memories with an artist; one shares feelings, reflections, dreams. These are the things one finds in the music of Darian Stavans— a passage of sorts to that special place we all have deep in our souls.

The apparent simplicity of works such as Interiors, Passion, and Poetic is powerfully touching and intensely beautiful. Captivating melodies hold our attention as their notes drop ever deeper into the soul of the listener, retrieving echoes of the human experience we all share. Our lives may be different, but our feelings are not. Stavans’ music glides us soothingly into currents of profoundly romantic reverie, pools of sunlit serenity, and occasionally into the depths of fleeting melancholy.

Stavans, the composer, imbues his music with texture: a guitar lends its sometimes earthy, sometimes airy quality to Els Segons Temps; whereas a lighter, more translucent harp is used to render Lullabies. In making his music come alive, Stavans has also become a producer (he produced all the works featured here) and a conductor. He conducted and recorded the St. Angelis Symphony Orchestra for his works Noir et Blanc and Prayer.

Nonetheless, Darian Stavans is first and foremost a gifted composer and pianist. His music speaks his soul and in so doing, speaks to our own. Perhaps listening to his works we might become acquainted with the artist, but it would be more accurate to say, we become reacquainted with ourselves.

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