モンポウ: ピアノ作品集

ブルガリアの才能溢れるピアニスト
マリーナ・スタネヴァが奏でるモンポウ!

2022年のデビュー・アルバム「スラヴィック・ルーツ～ヴラディゲロフ: ピアノ作品集」(CHAN20251)で絶賛され、デビュー・リサイタルも好評を博したピアニスト、マリーナ・スタネヴァの2作目となるアルバム!

モンポウはスペイン北東部のカタルーニャ地方で1893年に生まれ、1987年に亡くなるまでの間に、主にピアノ曲を数多く作曲しました。本アルバムの冒頭を飾る「風景」ではスペインの様々な情景が描かれ、続く「ショパンの主題による変奏曲」ではクラシックとジャズの要素が見事なまでに絡み合い、最後はカタルーニャの民謡やリズム、ジャズの影響を受けたパッセージ、古典的なワルツの舞曲などを兼ね備えた「歌と踊り」で締め括られます。「歌と踊り」は全15曲で構成され、そのうち13曲がピアノ曲として書かれていますが、本アルバムには第1番～第12番までの12曲が収められています。
東京エムプラス

Up-and-coming pianist Marina Staneva has made unusual choices for her first two album releases. Her first was an album of Bulgarian music, reflecting her own background but hardly familiar elsewhere. Now, for a follow-up, she chose not major repertory sonatas but works by Federico Mompou, a 20th century Catalonian composer whose short works are subtle, not particularly virtuosic, and sometimes seeming to recede to the vanishing point. Staneva seems to know what she is doing, however, for these are fine Mompou performances that will satisfy those who love this composer (the present writer included). Sample the Variations sur une theme de Chopin, whose 12 variations have an unusual structure: the music takes on chromatic accretions and then, in the later ones, resolves to a new tonal clarity independent of the original material (from the Chopin Prelude in A major, Op. 28, No. 7). Staneva holds this dynamic confidently in hand. She is equally effective in the 13 Cancons i Danses pieces in which a tuneful passage is paired with a dance in consistently inventive ways. Staneva catches the faint jazz influences in some of these pieces, and she lets the fundamental simplicity of Mompous music speak for itself. The album is beautifully and idiomatically recorded at Potton Hall in Suffolk, and it serves notice of a major emerging talent. ~ James Manheim