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。

発売・販売元 提供資料 （2020/07/30）

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.

Rovi