Album Notes

Pasion / Passion - By Darian Stavans.

Darian Stavans - Piano. Alberto Cruzprieto - Piano.
Mauricio Nader - Piano.

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PRODUCT DESCRIPTION


CD Passion is a musical sampler. Musicians and listeners have always enjoyed in doing and acquiring samplers. It is an old tradition in music recordings. Lots of examples we find in popular music. Also in cheap budget classical music; big industry and musical enterprises have built up their catalogs by doing musical samplers; renaissance, baroque, classical and romantic music is always there. This CD is a piano sampler. Contains the best moments of Darian Stavans' piano music. In it's structure, goes from low to high, from intimate tones to virtuosity piano performance. It is a CD logically armed and gives us a good perspective of the author's piano works. Joins the tradition of making musical samplers enjoyable to many who find in this music recording tradition, good taste. You will like it.

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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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