1908～ヴァレンティーナ・リシッツァ

ラフマニノフの女王・リシッツァがnaive レーベル登場
超絶難曲2篇を鮮やかに披露

ウクライナ、キエフ出身のヴァレンティーナ・リシッツァがnaiveレーベル登場!彼女はDeccaレーベルからチャイコフスキーのピアノ曲全集やラフマニノフの協奏作品全集をはじめ、ヴィルトゥオーゾ作品を数多くリリースしてきましたが、naiveでも同じ路線でラフマニノフとラヴェルの超難曲に挑戦。
どちらも極端に難しい技巧が要求されますが、ともに1908年の作で暗く怪奇的な要素を持っています。「夜のガスパール」がアロイジウス・ベルトランの詩によることは有名ですが、ラフマニノフ作品もゲーテの「ファウスト」に基づくとされます。ラフマニノフ作品のなかでも特に難しく、演奏時間35分に及ぶ交響曲のような世界のため、ポピュラーなピアノ・ソナタ第2番に比べ演奏頻度は非常に少ないものです。
そうした作品だからこそ、「ラフマニノフの女王」の異名を持つリシッツァの演奏で聴きたいもの。悪魔的な超絶技巧とエネルギーで両曲とも楽々と再現、驚くべきボルテージの髙さを示します。
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The career of pianist Valentina Lisitsa has had various twists and turns. Emerging from Ukraine after the fall of the Soviet Union, she landed in the U.S. and was among the first to grasp the power of online videos. She had technique to spare, but established labels had varying success in trying to exploit her celebrity. Then she ran into trouble by backing the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014 and suffered concert cancellations and a recording hiatus. With this 2022 release, Lisitsa moves to the boutique label Naive, quite a shift from her earlier semi-crossover status. She has, as of this writing, kept quiet about events in her homeland in early 2022. Through it all, Lisitsa has remained consistent in her music-making. Shes a formidable talent in Rachmaninov and other virtuoso music, leaning toward Eastern Europe. There isnt a great deal of individual personality in her music, although shes a charismatic figure in a general way. The 1908 title is technically accurate; both the Rachmaninov and the Ravel works on the program come from that year, but there was nothing that motivated them in common about 1908, which was more important for Schoenberg. Perhaps the biggest surprise on this outing is that she emerges as an impressive interpreter of Ravels most virtuosic work, Gaspard de la Nuit. Every note is in place in the final movement, "Scarbo," but especially compelling is the first movement, where the various registers of the piano emerge with unusual brilliance. Lisitsas fans will relish her return to the arena, and for newcomers, this is certainly a reasonable place to begin in sampling her wares.