Good Night! - Vinyl Edition - Erato: 9029519326 - Vinyl Record

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... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 9th Oct 2020
Catalogue No: 9029519326
Label: Erato

Gramophone Magazine

Awards Issue 2020

Editor's Choice
Presto Recording of the Week

16th October 2020
Presto Recordings of the Year

Finalist 2020

Good Night!

Wiegenlied (Chant De Berceuse)

Berceuse D'une Poupée

Berceuse in D-flat Major, Op. 57

Berceuse

A Pobrezinha

La Toute Petite S'endort

Berceuse

Song for Octave

Berceuse

Berceuse, S174

Wiegenmusik

Wiegenlied

Berceuse

J'étais Endormie, Mais Mon Coer Veillait...

About
Reviews
Videos
Explore

About

Recording of the Week, Bertrand Chamayou and Alexandre Kantorow

16th October 2020

Two contrasting recitals from award-winning French pianists - one fuelled by melatonin, the other by adrenaline.

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, Janácek, Martinu and Villa-Lobos to Helmut Lachenmann and a world premiere, Bryce Dessner's 'Song for Octave'

Reviews

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.

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.

Videos

An error occurred.

Try watching this video on www.youtube.com, or enable JavaScript if it is disabled in your browser.

An error occurred.

Try watching this video on www.youtube.com, or enable JavaScript if it is disabled in your browser.

An error occurred.

Try watching this video on www.youtube.com, or enable JavaScript if it is disabled in your browser.

Good Night! - Vinyl Edition

Contents

Recording of the Week, Bertrand Chamayou and Alexandre Kantorow

Download queue

Good Night! - Vinyl Edition

Vinyl Record

Other available formats

Contents

Download queue