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this CD is the purest pianism, with a drifting, freely associative, visionary momentum — BBC Music Magazine, September 2013, More…

Release Date: 20th May 2013
Catalogue No: 88765433262
Label: Sony
Length: 63 minutes

Gramophone Magazine

August 2013

Editor's Choice
BBC Music Magazine Awards

2014

Instrumental Finalist
BBC Music Magazine

September 2013

Instrumental Choice
Gramophone Awards

2014

Winner - Instrumental

Contents

Mompou: Prélude VII (Palmier d'étoiles)

3:01

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Arcadi Volodos (piano)

Mompou: Damunt de tu, nomes les flors

4:12

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Arcadi Volodos (piano)

Mompou: Scenes d'enfants

9:41

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Arcadi Volodos (piano)

I. Cris dans la rue

1:38

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II. Jeux sur la plage

1:47

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III. Jeu 2

1:27

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IV. Jeu 3

2:04

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V. Jeunes filles au jardin

2:45

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Mompou: Hoy la tierra y los cielos me sonríen

2:15

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Arcadi Volodos (piano)

Mompou: El lago (Le lac - from Paisajes, Nr. 2)

5:26

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Arcadi Volodos (piano)

Mompou: Pour appeler la joie (Charme VI)

1:13

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Arcadi Volodos (piano)

Mompou: Preludi XII

4:09

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Arcadi Volodos (piano)

Mompou: Dialogues 2

2:19

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Arcadi Volodos (piano)

Mompou: Dialogues 1

3:09

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Arcadi Volodos (piano)

Mompou: Musica callada I Angelico

2:00

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Arcadi Volodos (piano)

Mompou: Musica callada II Lent

2:11

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Arcadi Volodos (piano)

Mompou: Musica callada XXVII Lento molto

3:23

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Mompou: Musica callada XXIV Moderato

2:21

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Arcadi Volodos (piano)

Mompou: Musica callada XXV

3:22

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Arcadi Volodos (piano)

Mompou: Musica callada XI Allegretto

1:27

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Arcadi Volodos (piano)

Mompou: Musica callada XV Lento - plaintif

2:16

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Arcadi Volodos (piano)

Mompou: Musica callada XXII Molto lento e tranquilo

2:39

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Arcadi Volodos (piano)

Mompou: Musica callada XVI Calme

2:24

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Arcadi Volodos (piano)

Mompou: Musica callada VI Lento

1:46

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Arcadi Volodos (piano)

Mompou: Musica callada XXI Lento

3:46

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Arcadi Volodos (piano)

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Arcadi Volodos is one of the world’s best pianists, celebrated as a “genius” and the “new Horowitz” for the unique combination of outstanding virtuosity and profound and expressive musicality.

Volodos devotes his new CD to the hardly known Catalan composer Frederic Mompou. He believes that Mompou’s solo piano works are of outstanding quality and open new worlds.

The fact that Mompou’s music is hardly known is a key to success for this CD. It can only reveal its deep und unique quality in the magnificent interpretation of Volodos.

The music of Catalonian composer Federico Mompou (1893-1987) is almost completely unknown today. Unjustly so, in the opinion of Russian star pianist Arcadi Volodos, who has devoted his new solo CD to this remarkable musical personality.

Carrying on the tradition established by his Spanish colleagues Enrique Granados and Isaac Albéniz, Mompou's works are subtle and delicate, mysterious and intimate, with a shimmering Impressionist palette. Mompou's role models are always in evidence in his many piano pieces: Chopin and Scriabin, Satie and Debussy. Yet in quiet, unobtrusive fashion, Mompou evolves a musical cosmos entirely his own from these models: his music is a true discovery.

Volodos has chosen for this CD pieces from the Mompou cycles Scènes d´Enfants (1915-18), Charmes (1920/21) and Música Callada (1959-67), which were among the composer's own favourites. In the last few years, Arcadi Volodos has regularly played works by the Catalonian composer in his recitals, prompting the Süddeutsche Zeitung to refer to his "deep sensitivity for inspired nuance".

Reviews

September 2013

this CD is the purest pianism, with a drifting, freely associative, visionary momentum

August 2013

you will rarely if ever hear Mompou's introspection caught and held with greater affection and finesse...his playing is of an unfaltering poise and translucency. Sony's sound is ideal. This is a disc in a million.

September 2013

I've never heard a bad CD of Mompou's music, but Volodos's, like Larrocha's, is in a class of its own. He creates the illusion that he is at one with the music; it is playing him as much as he is playing it. This piano powerhouse here demonstrates that he can colour and phrase this music as sensitively as any pianist currently on the scene.

30th August 2013

Arcadi Volodos, showman virtuoso, playing the music of Federico Mompou, poetic loner? The match could hardly be more surprising - or successful...there's no doubting the artist's sincere affection and affinity for this music...This new disc only confirms the genius of Volodos

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