Chloé Charody’s new album Castle In The Sky is an anthology of her compositions for solo piano, performed by Australian-Vietnamese pianist, Van-Anh Nguyen, and is a dreamy collection of ten tracks which have a distinctly impressionist aesthetic.
Charody’s gift is her ability to paint pictures with music. The themes she has chosen for the items in this anthology lend themselves beautifully to her style of writing. Freewheeling melodies, teasing tempi,wistful phrasing and resonant arpeggiated baselines give voice to intimacy & quiet introspection.
Van-Ahh Nguyen’s technique is light, bright and flexible, but also gives full voice to the more dramatic moments as in A Faraway Land.
The opening track, Pas De Deux is a lilting waltz enriched with cross rhythms which waxes and wanes, optimising the range of the keyboard. Castle in the Sky is a Debussyesque painting of a castle that might rise from its rocky foundation to veil its spires behind clouds in the sky.
Mrs Dorothy Dormouse is a languid cameo of this sleepy creature which spends long periods in hibernation, punctuated by a moment of busyness. Weeping Willow starts in imitative style, drawing a willow tree swaying gracefully in the breeze, breaking into some unexpected tonalities at the end.
Butterfly Ball has an Oriental sense to it, bursting forth with modal chords flitting above a rippling base. Funeral March is wistful without being sombre, elaborated by a freely rising melody. Octavia’s Lullaby, the cascading Secret Waterfall, A Faraway Land – perhaps the most dramatic in the collection – and Snow Is Sleeping, round out the collection.
Through the dynamic fusion of opera, classical music & circus, Chloé Charody (b. 1984) has created a style of music & a theatrical genre that is unique & has enjoyed wonderful reception by critics, the media and audiences worldwide.
Charody’s first Circus-Opera ‘The Carnival’ debuted on London’s West End in 2011 & for 9 years ran sell out seasons across Europe
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