Gilles Vonsattel: Shadowlines
Gilles Vonsattel (piano)
a great recital, like the one captured on this mesmerizing disc by the immensely talented pianist Gilles Vonsattel, is more than the sum of its parts. With intelligence and imagination he traces...
Gilles Vonsattel: Shadowlines
Gilles Vonsattel (piano)
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a great recital, like the one captured on this mesmerizing disc by the immensely talented pianist Gilles Vonsattel, is more than the sum of its parts. With intelligence and imagination he traces...
About
This recital album is Swiss-born American pianist Gilles Vonsattel’s second studio recording on the Honens label. The 2009 Honens Laureate built the recording around George Benjamin’s ‘Shadowlines’ - the composer’s 2001 large scale work for piano. The album also includes works by Debussy, Messiaen, Scarlatti and Webern.
Contents and tracklist
Work length2:47
- Gilles Vonsattel (piano)
Work length3:30
- Gilles Vonsattel (piano)
Work length3:46
- Gilles Vonsattel (piano)
Excerpt,Messiaen:
Quatre Études de rythme
Work length4:14
- Gilles Vonsattel (piano)
4 Etudes de rythme: No. 4. Ile de feu II
Track length4:14
Work length5:58
- Gilles Vonsattel (piano)
I. Sehr massig
Track length1:47
II. Sehr schnell
Track length0:44
III. Ruhig fliessend
Track length3:27
Benjamin, G:
Shadowlines
Work length14:38
- Gilles Vonsattel (piano)
No. 1. Cantabile
Track length1:10
No. 2. Wild
Track length1:29
No. 3. Scherzando
Track length1:14
No. 4. Tempestoso
Track length2:22
No. 5. Very freely, solemn and spacious
Track length5:45
No. 6. Gently flowing, flexible
Track length2:38
Excerpt,Messiaen:
Preludes (8)
Work length13:14
- Gilles Vonsattel (piano)
No. 5. Les sons impalpables du reve (The Impalpable Sounds of the Dream)
Track length3:29
No. 6. Cloches d'angoisse et larmes d'adieu (Bells of Anguish and Tears of Farewell)
Track length9:45
Excerpt,Debussy:
Préludes - Book 2
Work length4:25
- Gilles Vonsattel (piano)
Preludes, Book 2: No. 12. Feux d'artifice
Track length4:25
Work length4:56
- Gilles Vonsattel (piano)
Awards and reviews
New York Times 25th November 2015
a great recital, like the one captured on this mesmerizing disc by the immensely talented pianist Gilles Vonsattel, is more than the sum of its parts. With intelligence and imagination he traces a path from the proud soliloquies of Scarlatti’s sonatas to the doubt-riddled monologues of Webern’s Variations and George Benjamin’s “Shadowlines".
