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Jean-Philippe Rameau, Charles-Valentin Alkan, Maurice Ravel: three centuries of French music meet face-to-face to pass the baton in this record that is so admirably interpreted by the young Bruce Liu. For his first studio album Waves (Deutsche Grammophon), the Chinese pianist and winner of the 2021 Chopin Piano Competition at 24 years old, undertakes the delicate mission of constructing and presenting a vast panel of sonoric textures and approaches, unique to each composer and their time. With the valued assistance of technician Michel Brandjes, Liu has managed to erect a monument of subtlety and variations that carefully house the pieces that he interprets. As he himself explains in the liner notes: Rameau’s writing (“Gavotte et six doubles,” “Les Sauvages”) lends itself to a sound that abounds in bursts of rage and passion, contrasting with the misty impressionism of Ravel and his “Miroirs.” Somewhere between the two, “Barcarolle” and “Festin d’Esope” serve as the bridge that certain Romantics sought between baroque music and their own. Bruce Liu revels in the flexibility of his playing, which is precise and adapts to older and more recent repertoire alike. His interpretation of Ravel’s “Miroirs” is particularly admirable for its skillful use of sonoric layers and its sense of time – and, notably, of silence – and brings to mind another beautiful version - that of Pierre-Laurent Aimard, also released on Deutsche Grammophon. © Pierre Lamy/Qobuz
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Gavotte et six doubles, RCT 5/7 (Jean-Philippe Rameau)
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - René Möller, Producer, Mixer, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Jupp Wegner, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bruce Liu, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2023 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - René Möller, Producer, Mixer, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Jupp Wegner, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bruce Liu, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2023 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - René Möller, Producer, Mixer, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Jupp Wegner, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bruce Liu, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2023 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - René Möller, Producer, Mixer, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Jupp Wegner, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bruce Liu, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2023 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - René Möller, Producer, Mixer, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Jupp Wegner, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bruce Liu, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2023 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - René Möller, Producer, Mixer, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Jupp Wegner, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bruce Liu, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2023 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - René Möller, Producer, Mixer, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Jupp Wegner, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bruce Liu, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2023 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Recueil de chants, Op. 65 (Charles-Valentin Alkan)
René Möller, Producer, Mixer, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Charles-Valentin Alkan, Composer - Jupp Wegner, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bruce Liu, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2023 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - René Möller, Producer, Mixer, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Jupp Wegner, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bruce Liu, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2023 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Miroirs, M. 43 (Maurice Ravel)
Maurice Ravel, Composer - René Möller, Producer, Mixer, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Jupp Wegner, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bruce Liu, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2023 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Maurice Ravel, Composer - René Möller, Producer, Mixer, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Jupp Wegner, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bruce Liu, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2023 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Maurice Ravel, Composer - René Möller, Producer, Mixer, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Jupp Wegner, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bruce Liu, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2023 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Maurice Ravel, Composer - René Möller, Producer, Mixer, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Jupp Wegner, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bruce Liu, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2023 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Maurice Ravel, Composer - René Möller, Producer, Mixer, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Jupp Wegner, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bruce Liu, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2023 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
12 Etudes in All the Minor Keys, Op. 39 / No. 12, Le festin d'Ésope (Charles-Valentin Alkan)
René Möller, Producer, Mixer, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Charles-Valentin Alkan, Composer - Jupp Wegner, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bruce Liu, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2023 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
René Möller, Producer, Mixer, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Charles-Valentin Alkan, Composer - Jupp Wegner, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bruce Liu, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2023 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
René Möller, Producer, Mixer, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Charles-Valentin Alkan, Composer - Jupp Wegner, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bruce Liu, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2023 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
René Möller, Producer, Mixer, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Charles-Valentin Alkan, Composer - Jupp Wegner, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bruce Liu, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2023 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
René Möller, Producer, Mixer, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Charles-Valentin Alkan, Composer - Jupp Wegner, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bruce Liu, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2023 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
René Möller, Producer, Mixer, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Charles-Valentin Alkan, Composer - Jupp Wegner, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bruce Liu, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2023 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
René Möller, Producer, Mixer, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Charles-Valentin Alkan, Composer - Jupp Wegner, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bruce Liu, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2023 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - René Möller, Producer, Mixer, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Jupp Wegner, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bruce Liu, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2023 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - René Möller, Producer, Mixer, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Jupp Wegner, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bruce Liu, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2023 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - René Möller, Producer, Mixer, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Jupp Wegner, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bruce Liu, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2023 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - René Möller, Producer, Mixer, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Jupp Wegner, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bruce Liu, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2023 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Album review
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Charles-Valentin Alkan, Maurice Ravel: three centuries of French music meet face-to-face to pass the baton in this record that is so admirably interpreted by the young Bruce Liu. For his first studio album Waves (Deutsche Grammophon), the Chinese pianist and winner of the 2021 Chopin Piano Competition at 24 years old, undertakes the delicate mission of constructing and presenting a vast panel of sonoric textures and approaches, unique to each composer and their time. With the valued assistance of technician Michel Brandjes, Liu has managed to erect a monument of subtlety and variations that carefully house the pieces that he interprets. As he himself explains in the liner notes: Rameau’s writing (“Gavotte et six doubles,” “Les Sauvages”) lends itself to a sound that abounds in bursts of rage and passion, contrasting with the misty impressionism of Ravel and his “Miroirs.” Somewhere between the two, “Barcarolle” and “Festin d’Esope” serve as the bridge that certain Romantics sought between baroque music and their own. Bruce Liu revels in the flexibility of his playing, which is precise and adapts to older and more recent repertoire alike. His interpretation of Ravel’s “Miroirs” is particularly admirable for its skillful use of sonoric layers and its sense of time – and, notably, of silence – and brings to mind another beautiful version - that of Pierre-Laurent Aimard, also released on Deutsche Grammophon. © Pierre Lamy/Qobuz
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 25 track(s)
- Total length: 01:01:04
- 2 Digital booklets
- Main artists: Bruce Liu
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
- Genre: Classical
© 2023 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin ℗ 2023 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
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