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Vera Ivanova: 6 Fugitive Memories
Composer Vera Ivanova introduces her work, 6 Fugitive Memories, written for Nadia Shpachenko, and recorded on the new Quotations and Homages album: “6 Fugitive Memories” were commissioned by and dedicated to the pianist Nadia Shpachenko. These short miniatures represent six dedications to composers who have anniversaries in 2016, the year when Nadia premiered this work. I decided to remove my compositional style and instead recall through quotations and allusions the pieces of composers to whom…