HANIA RANI – MUSIC FOR FILM AND THEATRE
2021-06-07Even as she brings the worlds of others into gorgeous fruition, Polish pianist and composer Hania Rani is capable of showcasing a flooring development of her own vision — and Music for Film and Theatre offers a precious document of this progression. Beginning with three works lifted from 2020’s xABo: Father Boniecki, Rani’s staggering ability to combine flurries of wind-tunnel atmospherics with plaintive keys is on full display, just as her Satie-esque invocations for I Never Cry from that same year seem to hold enormous, weighty power in melodious, circulating piano phrases. Music is often the invisible character of film, and Rani breathes life into it.