Discography
GEORGS PELĒCIS – SEASONS
Release date: 11 November 2022
Label: SKANI
Producers: Latvian Music Information Center/SKANI, Concert Hall Great Amber, Linda Leine
With support of Latvian Culture Capital Foundation and Claussen-Simon-Stiftung.
Our new album features the piano music of Georgs Pelēcis (1947) dedicated to the theme of the seasons. There are six (!) of these seasons, and, as a loose cycle of compositions, they were created over a longer period of time, from 1977 until 2021, and perhaps even later, during the recording process itself… From the perspective of Latvian music, Pelēcis’ creative universe reveals itself as unusually vast, almost unfathomable. And yet, it contains one common concept, one basic feature that serves as a key to his worldview, and that is an intelligent, clear, balanced and euphonic musical solution. This element is so effective, so consistent, so attractive, that even early on, Pelēcis’ music was described – by others as well as the composer himself – as the new simplicity, the new consonant music, the new consonantism. And above all this, integrally embedded in his music, is the notion of EUPHONY: sounds that are pleasing to the ear, consonance, harmony, balance. From concrete concepts of elementary music theory regarding the opposites of consonance vs. dissonance to the universal comprehension and sense of the world as a whole (balance, order, peace, stability, also joy and pleasure…).
When taking a closer look at the works Pelēcis has composed, the presence of specific natural objects emerges quite quickly as one of the permanent, independent lines found in his oeuvre. For example, jasmine, lilacs, rhododendrons, lilies (classic lilies, but perhaps also water lilies or simply one of the many bell-shaped flowers in the meadow, or any unspecified, indecipherable flower), dandelions, lilies-of-the-valley, peonies, irises, calla lilies, roses… Or the different phases of the day. Or the aforementioned circle of seasons. Here we find very few traditional sonoric features, except perhaps the occasional association with Baroque music or the polonaise. No, there are almost none of these. Instead, the listener is immersed in a kind of stream of consciousness, the pulse of which (or lack thereof) unfolds according to its own rules (or completely without any clearly perceptible rules) and changes as elusively as the day
dawns or the night falls.
Jānis Torgāns
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IRGENDWO AUF DER WELT
Pia Davila | Linda Leine
Release date: 23 September 2022
Label: ES-DUR
With works of:
Erich Zeisl (1905-1959), Joseph Isidor Achron (1886-1943), Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951), Georg Kreisler (1922-2011), Ruth Schonthal (1924-2006), Ilse Weber (1903-1944), Mischa Spoliansky (1898-1985), Othmar Schoeck (1886-1957), Rudi Stephan (1887-1915), Paul Ben-Haim (1897-1984), Ursula Mamlok (1923-2016), Rosy Wertheim (1888-1949) and others
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SCHUBERT | STRAVINSKY | VASKS
Linda Leine | Daria Marshinina
Release date: 22. February 2019
Label: ES-DUR / Edel:Kultur (ES 2076)
FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797–1828)
Divertissement sur des motifs originaux français, D 823
IGOR STRAVINSKY (1882–1971)
Concerto per due pianoforti soli (1935)
PĒTERIS VASKS (*1946)
Music for two pianos (1974) [World premiere recording]
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Rondo in D Major, D 608
Press
Mit diesen Ambitionen öffnet sich das phänomenale Klavierduo hoffnungsvolle Perspektiven für eine erfolgreiche professionelle Karriere aus internationalen Podien klassischer Musik.
Die beiden Pianistinnen Linda Leine und Daria Marshinina beweisen auf ihrer Debüt-CD, dass in einem erfolgreichen Klavierduo nicht unbedingt immer Schwestern zusammenspielen müssen.
Klassik-Duo: Pianistinnen Daria und Linda gehen alles vierhändig an.
"Klasikas" viešņas - klavieru duets no Hamburgas: Linda Leine un Darja Maršiņina
Das Klavierduo Linda Leine und Daria Marshinina ist auf jeden Fall sehr hörenswert. Sie experimentieren und spielen mit den Klangfarben, sind auf den Punkt da, spielen toll zusammen. Und noch mal ein großes Lob an die Dramaturgie des Programms. Fazit: möge es nicht bei der Debüt-CD bleiben!
— WDR 3
Wenn vielversprechende Talente ihr CD-Debüt geben, ist man nicht nur gespannt, wie sie spielen, sondern auch was sie spielen. Wie jetzt im Fall des lettisch-russischen Klavierduos Linda Leine & Daria Marshinina, das durch Konzerte längst auf sich aufmerksam gemacht hat.
— RONDO
Unter den Klavierduos sind sie eine echte Rarität: Keine Geschwister, kein Paar, sondern Freundinnen. Zwei verschiedene Persönlichkeiten, die an einem oder zwei Klavieren miteinander verschmelzen.
Die Lettin und die Russin bersten fast vor Leidenschaft und poetischer Ausdruckskraft, was ihnen bald nach ihrem Zusammentreffen in Hamburg 2011 Gehör in der Szene verschaffte.
Auf ihrem Debütalbum mit Werken von Schubert, Strawinsky und Vasks öffnen die Russin Daria Marshinina und die Lettin Linda Leine aber noch ganz andere Schatzkisten der Klavierduo-Literatur.