「音楽の父」から「家族の父へ」。世界を切り拓くピアニストが、偉大な作曲家の二つの姿を解き明かす!
2010年ショパン国際ピアノ・コンクールや、2011年ルービンシュタイン国際ピアノコンクール、第14回チャイコフスキー国際コンクールなど、数々の世界的コンクールでの受賞をきっかけに世界デビューを果たした、ロシアの若手ピアニスト、ダニール・トリフォノフの新作。
「音楽の父」J.S.バッハの最晩年の作品「フーガの技法」をはじめ、バッハの息子たちが書いた作品や、二人目の妻、アンナ・マグダレーナ・バッハに贈った音楽帳など、バッハの家庭を覗き込めるような選曲。
トリフォノフによるコントラプンクトゥス第14の補筆完成版も収録。
ユニバーサル・ミュージック/IMS
発売・販売元 提供資料(2021/08/24)
Pianist Daniil Trifonov is known for performances of 19th and 20th century virtuoso repertory and hardly at all for Bach. Thus one might expect from his album Bach: The Art of Life a certain old-school Romantic quality and even music that is a bit over the top. The album is all that and more. The title is a bit unclear; the interview-format notes quote Trifonov references to Bachs personal life, but also to various scientific phenomena, but one may dispense with those and get down to the music, which doubtless showcases Trifonovs formidable technical skills. With Bach, it is not about keyboard-clattering speed but about subtlety of inflection, and the variety brought to the little selections from the Bachs Anna Magdalena Book, pieces that almost everyone who has touched a keyboard has played, is extraordinary. Trifonov also includes a group of pieces by Bachs sons, and he does unusually well at finding what critic Harold Bloom called the anxiety of influence in these, their J.S. Bachian quality even in a stylistic world that had fundamentally changed. However, none of these really prepares the listener for the albums centerpiece, The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080, which is divided between the two CDs in the physical version. It is as imposing as the rest of the album is light, and listeners will either love the contrast (Trifonov fans are sure to fall into this category) or find it jarring. Listen to the Contrapunctus 6 (in stylo Francese) for an idea of the outlandish personalities Trifonov gives each fugue here. Even those who find it a bit much will have to concede the skill involved in fully realizing each idea. Instead of breaking off at the end of the unfinished final fugue, Trifonov furnishes his own completion, and its actually one of the more convincing tries on the market. Listeners will have their own opinions about this release, but it is absolutely never boring, and its commercial success suggests that Trifonovs legions are increasing in number.
Rovi