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フェドロヴァとゼムツォフの豪華共演!
フランスにまつわるヴィオラ作品集!

ヤープ・ファン・ズヴェーデンやマルタ・アルゲリッチが絶賛するウクライナ出身のピアニスト、アンナ・フェドロヴァと、ヴィオラのエリート家系に生まれたヴィオラ界の麗しきサラブレッド、ダナ・ゼムツォフ。
2020年に創立30周年を迎えたオランダの高音質レーベル、Channel Classicsの現在をリードする二人の有力アーティストが豪華共演。ドビュッシー、ミヨー、クラーク、ヴェークマン、エネスなど、フランスの作曲家による作品と、フランスの詩や自然、舞曲に触発された「a la Francaise(フランス風)」の作品を見事に組み合わせた香り豊かなプログラムで、ヴィオラのためのレパートリーをめぐる素敵な小旅行にお連れします。
東京エムプラス

The young violist Dana Zemtsov is a versatile player who has recorded music of her native Mexico as well as from various European traditions. Here, she and pianist Anna Fedorova weave English, Dutch, French, and Romanian pieces into an evocative sequence in which all the music falls generally into the French sphere and is informed by the inimitable way the French have with nostalgia. Debussy is represented in venerable transcriptions, and much of the music derives from the retrospective strands of his personality. The program opens with the Viola Sonata of Rebecca Clarke, influenced by the Violin Sonata in G minor of Debussy but a more tense and exacting work. It receives a precise performance here, but the real fun begins when Zemtsov relaxes into some more purely neoclassic works. There is a fine sonata by the little-known composer Arne Werkman and a lovely rendition of George Enescus Concert Piece for viola and piano. However, the real highlight is the fairly obscure Viola Sonata No. 1, Op. 240, of Milhaud, written during World War II but redolent of the gentle hillsides of California, to which the composer fled. The work brings out Zemtsovs best quality: her remarkable way with lyrical melodies, which are abundant in this work. The whole thing is highly listenable in music thats generally unfamiliar, except for the Debussy, and its beautifully recorded.