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Mid-period and late Enescu: a suite of impressionist tone-poems followed by a concise and dizzying sonata that is his masterpiece for the piano.
Blessed with a prodigious memory, Enescu was almost too talented for his own good: as a violinist, composer, pianist, conductor, teacher, even organist and cellist, he excelled in every area of musical endeavour. His violin playing overshadowed the rest during his lifetime, but Parisian critics regarded him as one of the most subtle pianists of their day. By all accounts, Enescu’s style of piano playing was much like his violin playing; intense and vibrant, yet tempered by the refined and expressive elegance venerated by Yehudi Menuhin: ‘the most extraordinary human being, the greatest musician and the most formative influence I have ever experienced.’
His own compositions are cast in highly individual forms, often evoking not only the folk music of his native Romania but also the sound of bells, with magical and original overtone series. A perfect example is ‘Carillon nocturne’, the seventh and final movement of his Suite Op.18. This ill-starred suite was composed during the First World War, though its mood is an often wild and dreamy flight from troubled times. The manuscript was lost, much to the composer’s dismay, and only rediscovered after his death. It shows off the full range of Enescu’s mature compositional language: not only ecstatic contemplations that anticipate the music of Messiaen but also rhythmically complex dances, sometimes reminiscent of Bartok but always alive to a rhapsodic or reflective turn of thought.
The Third Sonata is Enescu’s last major work for the piano, composed soon after his crowning masterpiece, the opera Oedipe. Cast in three movements of unusual concision – using the same three themes throughout – it encloses a rapturous Andante cantabile: ‘one of the most beautiful pieces of music I know,’ according to Saskia Giorgini in her booklet essay.
Saskia Giorgini is an Italian-Dutch pianist who won the Salzburg International Mozart Competition in 2016. She made her debut at the Vienna Musikverein in February 2017 playing an all-Mozart recital. Her Scottish debut in October 2018 was acclaimed in The Observer as ‘thrilling, flawless’. As a chamber musician she has partnered the likes of Ian Bostridge, Martin Fröst and Janine Jansen; in 2019 she gives several concerts of the great Schubert song-cycles with Bostridge. © Piano Classics
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George Enescu, Composer - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher - Saskia Giorgini, Piano, MainArtist
2019 Brilliant Classics 2019 Brilliant Classics
George Enescu, Composer - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher - Saskia Giorgini, Piano, MainArtist
2019 Brilliant Classics 2019 Brilliant Classics
George Enescu, Composer - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher - Saskia Giorgini, Piano, MainArtist
2019 Brilliant Classics 2019 Brilliant Classics
George Enescu, Composer - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher - Saskia Giorgini, Piano, MainArtist
2019 Brilliant Classics 2019 Brilliant Classics
George Enescu, Composer - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher - Saskia Giorgini, Piano, MainArtist
2019 Brilliant Classics 2019 Brilliant Classics
George Enescu, Composer - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher - Saskia Giorgini, Piano, MainArtist
2019 Brilliant Classics 2019 Brilliant Classics
George Enescu, Composer - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher - Saskia Giorgini, Piano, MainArtist
2019 Brilliant Classics 2019 Brilliant Classics
George Enescu, Composer - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher - Saskia Giorgini, Piano, MainArtist
2019 Brilliant Classics 2019 Brilliant Classics
George Enescu, Composer - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher - Saskia Giorgini, Piano, MainArtist
2019 Brilliant Classics 2019 Brilliant Classics
George Enescu, Composer - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher - Saskia Giorgini, Piano, MainArtist
2019 Brilliant Classics 2019 Brilliant Classics
Albumbeschreibung
Mid-period and late Enescu: a suite of impressionist tone-poems followed by a concise and dizzying sonata that is his masterpiece for the piano.
Blessed with a prodigious memory, Enescu was almost too talented for his own good: as a violinist, composer, pianist, conductor, teacher, even organist and cellist, he excelled in every area of musical endeavour. His violin playing overshadowed the rest during his lifetime, but Parisian critics regarded him as one of the most subtle pianists of their day. By all accounts, Enescu’s style of piano playing was much like his violin playing; intense and vibrant, yet tempered by the refined and expressive elegance venerated by Yehudi Menuhin: ‘the most extraordinary human being, the greatest musician and the most formative influence I have ever experienced.’
His own compositions are cast in highly individual forms, often evoking not only the folk music of his native Romania but also the sound of bells, with magical and original overtone series. A perfect example is ‘Carillon nocturne’, the seventh and final movement of his Suite Op.18. This ill-starred suite was composed during the First World War, though its mood is an often wild and dreamy flight from troubled times. The manuscript was lost, much to the composer’s dismay, and only rediscovered after his death. It shows off the full range of Enescu’s mature compositional language: not only ecstatic contemplations that anticipate the music of Messiaen but also rhythmically complex dances, sometimes reminiscent of Bartok but always alive to a rhapsodic or reflective turn of thought.
The Third Sonata is Enescu’s last major work for the piano, composed soon after his crowning masterpiece, the opera Oedipe. Cast in three movements of unusual concision – using the same three themes throughout – it encloses a rapturous Andante cantabile: ‘one of the most beautiful pieces of music I know,’ according to Saskia Giorgini in her booklet essay.
Saskia Giorgini is an Italian-Dutch pianist who won the Salzburg International Mozart Competition in 2016. She made her debut at the Vienna Musikverein in February 2017 playing an all-Mozart recital. Her Scottish debut in October 2018 was acclaimed in The Observer as ‘thrilling, flawless’. As a chamber musician she has partnered the likes of Ian Bostridge, Martin Fröst and Janine Jansen; in 2019 she gives several concerts of the great Schubert song-cycles with Bostridge. © Piano Classics
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 10 track(s)
- Total length: 00:56:56
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Saskia Giorgini
- Composer: George Enescu
- Label: Piano Classics
- Genre: Klassiek
2019 Brilliant Classics 2019 Brilliant Classics
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