独自の道を歩むリュカ、2年ぶり7作目の新録はフォーレ!
フランス気鋭のピアニスト、リュカ・ドゥバルグの最新録音!2024年に没後百年をむかえるフランスを代表する作曲家ガブリエル・フォーレ(1845/5/12-1924/11/4)のピアノ独奏曲全集・全4枚組。2015年チャイコフスキー国際コンクールで大変な注目を集め4位入賞を果たし2016年アルバム・デビューを果たした。以来、知られざる作曲家のレパートリーに光をあて積極的に取り組むリュカは、録音の少ないメトネルやシマノフスキ、2021年にはポーランド出身の音楽家ミロシュ・マギン作品集*世界初録音ふくむ*を発表。また大好きな作曲家の1人であるスカルラッティは全4枚組でリリースするなど独自の視点で己の道を歩み続けるリュカがフォーレの世界に没入し、その真髄・魅力にせまった意欲作が届けられた。書き下ろしライナーノーツも掲載。使用楽器:Paulello Opus 102。
ソニー・ミュージック
発売・販売元 提供資料(2024/01/19)
Gabriel Faure wrote a lot of piano music, and complete recordings of it are rare, with just a few in the decades before the release of this one by pianist Lucas Debargue in 2024. That may have drawn listeners; the album landed on classical best-seller charts in the spring of that year. Another draw was Debargues unusual piano, a modern instrument called the "Opus 102" by Stephen Paulello. As the name suggests, it has 102 keys. That doesnt affect Faure, who wrote for the usual 88, but the piano also has certain details of construction that allow an unusually wide range of tone colors. Debargue contributes pages and pages of notes, including descriptions of each individual piece included on the four volumes of Faure, but he doesnt really offer a coherent argument for why this piano was correct. So listeners can form their own judgments. This was a pandemic-era project, and perhaps Debargue felt that the new piano enabled him to enter more deeply into Faures music than would otherwise have been possible. In any event, he does well at creating an overarching direction in the music as a whole, playing Faures pieces in chronological order by opus number. He gives a sense of the development of the composers pianistic language, which continued to explore Chopins genres (principally the Barcarolle and the Nocturne) but took on deeper layers harmonically and texturally later in his life. The listener sympathetic to Debargues approach will have the feeling of entering a murky, mysterious, almost spiritual or sepulchral world in the later parts of the program. Sony Classical and producer Hans Kipfer back Debargue up with excellent studio sound that captures all the tone colors. Many pieces sound unlike earlier recordings of Faure, and listeners owe it to themselves to at least check the recording out. ~ James Manheim
Rovi