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Bartók: Racines
Florent Boffard (piano)
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2019, Editor's Choice
Boffard strikes an excellent balance between Bartok’s different worlds. Sinuously contoured melodies are played with an excellent singing tone; there is a proud, fine-sprung quality to the dance...
Bartók: Racines
Florent Boffard (piano)
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Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2019, Editor's Choice
Boffard strikes an excellent balance between Bartok’s different worlds. Sinuously contoured melodies are played with an excellent singing tone; there is a proud, fine-sprung quality to the dance...
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Although he is regarded as a major composer of the Twentieth Century, Bartók himself attached equal importance to his career as a pianist and to his study of folk music.
Bartók’s piano works lie at the intersection of these three activities. These pieces were often the laboratories for his stylistic advances; but every bar of them exudes the folklore of Central Europe and the Hungarian composer’s love for nature.
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Awards and reviews
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Gramophone MagazineJanuary 2019Editor's Choice
February 2019
Boffard strikes an excellent balance between Bartok’s different worlds. Sinuously contoured melodies are played with an excellent singing tone; there is a proud, fine-sprung quality to the dance rhythms, plenty of contrast drawn out of the brief, sometimes startling ‘Improvisations and oodles of atmosphere.
January 2019
The tonal palette is infinitely calibrated, the rhythmical acumen a wonder of lithe flexibility…The two big Romanian Dances fairly burst with vitality, even if they are faster than they could be conceivably danced, even by dervishes on amphetamines…This full-voiced, deeply breathing, humanly dimensional Bartók is the one I’ve been waiting for. Now, let’s have more!
