A Character of Quiet

ビルボード・クラシカル・チャートNo.1を記録したSONYバッハ・アルバムは有名ですが、今回は新型コロナの影響で自宅でのグラス作品とシューベルトです。

Pianist Simone Dinnerstein has been a champion of the music of Philip Glass, with various recordings on the market, but this one is innovative in two ways. The first it shares with other Dinnerstein releases just previous to it, pairing works by Glass with standard repertory works of a similar general mood. The second is of a less premeditated nature. Due to the 2020 coronavirus outbreak, the album was recorded in Dinnersteins Brooklyn home. It shares this setting with other recordings released in 2020, and the results have often been so pleasing that one wonders whether the practice might persist post-pandemic. The big argument in favor is that Schubert probably wrote his Piano Sonata in B flat major, D. 960, for a room very like the one here, filled with his friends and admirers. Dinnerstein crafts an interpretation to match the space, with quiet but distinct delineations of the fulcrum points in the vast opening movement and slow movement. The three Etudes of Glass, by contrast, were composed with larger spaces in mind, and here again, Dinnerstein shifts gears intelligently, taking the musics shifts down to micro levels. Whether Glass and Schubert really belong together is something that individual listeners will have to decide, but this is certainly a fresh development in the catalog of recordings by the Glass Orange Mountain Music label.

コロナ禍で目まぐるしく動く世界が突然止まった。ピアニストのシモーネ・ディナースタインはしばらくピアノを離れたそうだ。そしてゆっくりとグラス作品とシューベルトのピアノ・ソナタ第21番を奏でて動き出した。バッハのディスクで高い評価を得た彼女はCOVID-19の影響でニューヨーク・ブルックリンの自宅にこもった。その6月に自分の愛用のピアノで録音したアルバム。タイトルとライナーノーツに詩人ワーズワースの孤独に関する詩を引用。タイトルは日本語に訳すなら「静かな性格」。1音1音愛おしむように奏でた深遠な美しい高音の静寂の歌が心に響く。全体に優しいサウンドの録音に仕上がっている。
intoxicate (C)雨海秀和