Album Notes

Poética / Poetic - By Darian Stavans.

Darian Stavans - Piano.


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When the music becomes poetry, the soul expands, the self glows; It is light that shelters, provides and preserves.
In this way, the heart shall be nourished.


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PRODUCT DESCRIPTION


"When the music becomes poetry, the soul expands, the self glows; It is light that shelters, provides and preserves. In this way, the heart shall be nourished..." Those are the words that come in the back cover booklet of this CD. And speak for themselves. The music that conforms this album is conceived to reflect the feelings when music becomes poetry. Beside the titles of each piece of music, the inner musical form concept is built up as poems. They have rhythm, cadence and rhyme like if they would talk alike literature words. They flow indeed in a tray of musical phrases that become nostalgic feelings, silent moments, ballads and romances. They all together describe musical poetry that shelter our ear and nourish our spirit.

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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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