Multi award-winning composer Elena Kats-Chernin AO and ARIA award-winning pianist Tamara-Anna Cislowska’s third stunning album collaboration (ABC Classics)
Editor’s Choice in Limelight Magazine, December 2025
“Elena Kats-Chernin’s Piano Concerto No. 3 is subtitled Lebewohl, literally “Farewell” in German, but in the 18th century more of an expression of endearment meaning “Live well until we meet again”.
The concerto is a rumination on what must have been the absolute nadir of JS Bach’s life when he returned home after a tour to find that his young wife, the 36-year-old Maria Barbara, had died and was already buried.
For many years, [composer Elena Kats-Chernin] and pianist Tamara-Anna Cislowska’s impressive synergy has produced many immersive works and here the soloist is alive to every nuance in this kaleidoscopic and trenchant score. …
The concerto certainly belongs in the most brilliant Australian works so far of the 21st century.”
Read the full review here.
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