{"id":164013,"date":"2026-08-31T09:07:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T13:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/records\/cheryl-duvall-linda-catlin-smith-the-complete-piano-solos-1989-2023-volume-ii-the-underfolding-early-works\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T09:11:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T13:11:17","slug":"cheryl-duvall-linda-catlin-smith-the-complete-piano-solos-1989-2023-volume-ii-the-underfolding-early-works","status":"publish","type":"records","link":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/en\/records\/cheryl-duvall-linda-catlin-smith-the-complete-piano-solos-1989-2023-volume-ii-the-underfolding-early-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheryl Duvall – Linda Catlin Smith : The Complete Piano Solos (1989-2023), Volume II: The Underfolding & Early Works"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you remember a 2025 album review by me, about the composer Linda Catlin Smith, titled The Plains<\/em>, you also remember all the good things I said about it. Otherwise, I invite you to revisit it to better understand this Canadian who weaves an ultra-delicate sound world, but also one that is rich in construction and timbral complexity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

REVIEW OF THE ALBUM<\/strong> THE PLAINS<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A rare thing for a living composer, a label (here Redshift Records, from Vancouver) has taken the initiative to record the complete piano music of Ms. Smith. The Plains<\/em> was Volume 1, so here is Volume 2. Unlike The Plains<\/em>, a single work of over an hour (a tour de force), this Volume 2 presents a series of nine pieces, written between 1983 and 2023. One thus gets a taste of the entire career of the American who became Canadian, through her very personal pianistic writing, although largely rooted in the post-Webernian stylistic school and abstract Minimalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smith constructs her short pieces (most are about five minutes long, with a few exceptions, such as The Underfolding<\/em> which is over 21 minutes) like meticulous Miro paintings, in terms of construction, but more austere, less flamboyant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this to say that Linda Catlin Smith creates very delicate and refined worlds, embroidered with ultra-graceful lines, rarely supported by full and fleshy harmonic textures. Ms. Smith’s phrases float in a murmured ether, in a microgravity rarely disturbed. From the very first measures of the first piece of the program, Poire<\/em>, the tone is set, and you will find yourself in the Webern of the Four Pieces for Violin and Piano, Op. 7.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Une publication partag\u00e9e par Cheryl Duvall (@cheryl_duvall)<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/blockquote>\n