回想

期待の若手天才ビュルキ、デビュー

2000年スイス生まれのピアニスト、ジーモン・ビュルキのデビュー・アルバム。ビュルキは5歳からウクライナのキーウでピアノを学び、モスクワ中央音楽学校でさらなる研鑽を積みました。マツーエフに認められ、キーウ青年ピアニスト・コンクールで優勝、現在はニューヨークのジュリアード音楽学校でセルゲイ・ババヤンに師事しています。

アルバムは今年2023年が生誕150年のラフマニノフに捧げられ、彼の前奏曲と練習曲「音の絵」から数篇と編曲、さらにゆかりあるチャイコフスキーとスクリャービンほかを集めています。技巧も冴え、今後注目の逸材と申せましょう。
キングインターナショナル

The annotations for this Aparte release include a full-throated defense of the common fund of 19th and early 20th century piano music; "censors took a dim view of serving up little pieces bequeathed by the 19th century and the first years of the 20th, because of their sentimentality, their virtuosity. This era is over," writes Alain Lompech. Yet this debut by pianist Simon Burki, still a student at the Juilliard School when this album was released in 2023, still stands out a bit for its adherence to pure Romantic and post-Romantic favorites. Burki places works by Rachmaninov, mostly from the Etudes-Tableaux, at the center of his program, delivering confident performances with an attractive bit of restraint. From there, he does indeed move into more sentimental pieces, including Rachmaninovs arrangement of Fritz Kreislers evergreen violin piece Liebesleid and Liszts Liebestraume, a work that would have appeared on countless 19th century recitals but is perhaps a bit less common nowadays. He also includes the somewhat more modern Scriabin, performing him in a lyrical mood that emphasizes his Romantic rather than his experimentalist connections. It is an attractive collection, beautifully recorded at the Gustav Mahler Hall in Dobbiaco, Italy, and it makes one hopeful about future releases from the player. ~ James Manheim