“音楽の魔術師“によるピアノ・ソロのライヴ・アルバム。CD2枚組+DVD

最後の録音から3年、グリゴリー・ソコロフは大成功を収めた2019/20年のツアーからのライヴ録音による2枚組のアルバムを発売します。ベートーヴェンの初期(第3番)と後期(第27番と第32番)、ブラームスの晩年のピアノ小品Op.118と119を中心にこの"音楽の魔術師"はヨーロッパ中の観客と批評家たちを虜にしました。DVD付き。

グリゴリー・ソコロフは1950年生まれ、1966年のチャイコフスキー国際コンクールで16歳で優勝したロシアの偉大なピアニストです。
ユニバーサル・ミュージック/IMS

発売・販売元 提供資料 （2020/03/17）

Grigory Sokolov is the kind of artist to whom the description one of the greatest living pianists is often applied. Such rankings do nothing but stir up controversy of limited utility, but they do make one ask what is so special about the artists involved. This release gives an idea of whats happening in Sokolovs case. He combines, as few other artists do, tremendous technical facility, expressed more in articulation than in speed although he is capable of that too, great beauty of tone, and deep musical insight. It is the left hand that often compels here, bringing out so much previously unheard detail that one has the feeling of entering into the composers mind. This album was assembled from various 2019 recitals that took place in different venues but shared a common program; theres plenty of crowd noise, but each performance can be justified in terms of its especially poetic quality. Sokolov does especially well with Beethoven here. The Piano Sonata No. 3 in C major, Op. 2, No. 3, has a deliberate opening movement with every phrase caressed, making a wholly novel effect for a work played so often, and the Bagatelles, Op. 119, which Beethoven wrote mostly early in his career and returned to later, have a unique depth that does not lose the fact that theyre intended as simple pieces. If one absolutely had to make a complaint here, its that Sokolov applies similar surfaces to the Bagatelles and the Brahms Op. 118 and Op. 119 piano pieces, but in the Brahms, too, there are many insights. The large group of encores flows naturally from the end of the main program; this is a pianist who can hold an audience like a birds egg in the palm of his hand. For those still unfamiliar with the Sokolov phenomenon, a group that includes many American listeners, this album makes an excellent place to start.

Rovi