Good Night!
Bertrand Chamayou (piano)
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2020, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th October 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
A charm of lullabies, or an excess? If anyone could convince you that mostly slow and soft can work as an album sequence, it would be sonic magician Bertrand Chamayou...Within the narrow compass...
Good Night!
Bertrand Chamayou (piano)
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Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2020, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th October 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
A charm of lullabies, or an excess? If anyone could convince you that mostly slow and soft can work as an album sequence, it would be sonic magician Bertrand Chamayou...Within the narrow compass...
About
The sixteen lullabies – or berceuses – that pianist Bertrand Chamayou has chosen for Good Night! form a captivatingly varied album. His programme embraces a diversity of eras and musical cultures: Chopin, Liszt, Grieg and, of course, Brahms through Balakirev, Lyapunov, Alkan, Bonis, Busoni, Janáček, Martinů and Villa-Lobos to Helmut Lachenmann and a world premiere, Bryce Dessner’s Song for Octave. “The lullaby’s place is halfway between dream and reality,” says Chamayou, “There is that special moment as you are falling asleep and you experience all kinds of emotions.” A satisfying recital that will also enrich digital playlists, Good Night! has been recorded in Dolby Atmos immersive sound.
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Bertrand Chamayou on Good Night!
9th Dec 2020
The French pianist talks to Katherine about his beguiling collection of lullabies by composers including Lyapunov, Liszt, Alkan and Mel Bonis, released in October on Erato.
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Bertrand Chamayou and Alexandre Kantorow
16th Oct 2020
Two contrasting recitals from award-winning French pianists - one fuelled by melatonin, the other by adrenaline.
Awards and reviews
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Gramophone MagazineAwards Issue 2020Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week16th October 2020
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Presto Recordings of the YearFinalist 2020
Christmas 2020
A charm of lullabies, or an excess? If anyone could convince you that mostly slow and soft can work as an album sequence, it would be sonic magician Bertrand Chamayou...Within the narrow compass there’s profundity, and subtle variety...Chamayou weaves everything together in imagination and aerial delicacy.
Awards Issue 2020
The danger with this kind of CD is that you end up with so much slow, quiet music that you find yourself drifting off into the most pleasant slumber…But not here, for the programme is full of surprises and ranges wide, both geographically and historically… A treasure-trove of an album.
March 2021
Chamayou’s programme offers optimum contrast, with notable discoveries by Mel Bonis and Helmut Lachemann plus a new commission by Bryce Dessner set alongside more familiar offerings...The listener is generously served and Chamayou’s performances are musical and empathetic, making you long for a sequel.
16th October 2020
The variety of the programme itself is matched by the range of pastel colours which he draws from his own piano...Chamayou is ever-mindful of the lullaby’s vocal origins, and every melody really sings here, from the spare beauty of Good Night! from Janáček’s On an Overgrown Path (which gives the album its title) to the more sonorous lines of Busoni’s Berceuse - one of the few tracks to exploit the piano’s lower register, and a welcome counterweight to the silvery music-box sonorities elsewhere.
