Pianist Joanna Macgregor performed Eleanor Alberga's It's Time:
Friday, 01 March 2019
Eleanor Alberga (pictured above) has often worked with dance troupes. That grounding in the ever-shifting drama of rhythm and movement never feels far away in It’s Time
– inspired by a poem by Pushkin. Repeated bass figures conjure an
immersive, enveloping mood of anticipation, even threat. If the hypnotic
and drone-like rumbles and snarls low down hint at some variety of
minimalism, ethereal, bell-like harmonies above sometimes conjure the
soundscapes of Debussy or even Messiaen. MacGregor gave a thoroughly
convincing account of a piece that balanced those thumping, earthbound
repetitions in the left hand against more unworldly excursions in the
upper registers.
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