アンコール集

お気に入りの楽曲を新録音した、祝75歳記念のニュー・アルバム

伝説のブラジル人ピアニスト、ネルソン・フレイレの75歳の誕生日（10月18日）にリリースされる新録音の『アンコール集』。

パーセルからラフマニノフ、スカルラッティからショスタコーヴィチ、そしてグリーグの『抒情小曲集』をとり上げています。
珍しいスガンバーティの『グルックのメロディ』、パデレフスキの『夜想曲』、そしてアルベニスの『ナバーラ』も収録。

フレイレは2006年にグラモフォン誌のレコード・オブ・ザ・イヤーを、2013年にラテン・グラミー賞のベスト・クラシカル・アルバムを受賞しています。
ユニバーサル・ミュージック/IMS

This release, issued to mark the 75th birthday of the great pianist Nelson Freire in 2019, is hardly a typical album of encores. A good deal of it is devoted to a single composer, Edvard Grieg. Other composers are represented by multiple works, and there are substantial pieces like the Rachmaninov Prelude in B minor, Op. 32, No. 10, that would not fill the role of encore well. You might take the word encore in another way, though: to mean things reprised. Many of these pieces are ones Freire knows well, has played many times, and has explored at a truly breathtaking level of detail. The Grieg Lyric Pieces are not virtuoso works, and indeed are often played by amateurs, but you havent heard them played like Freire plays them, with each one a little study in phrasing and register. You could sample almost anywhere here, but try the first of the Shostakovich Fantastic Dances, Op. 5, which has an entrancing subtlety from the very first notes. Freire, a famed virtuoso, mostly avoids showpieces here, but, as if to say he hasnt lost the ability, he does drop some in. The album is, then, an encore to Freires remarkable career, which isnt over yet.