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This disc has everything going for it. First, the repertoire is attractive and challenging. Second, the performance is evocative and virtuosic. Third, the recording is vivid and immediate. What more could a listener want?
First, the repertoire: mixing Fauré's proto-modernist Impromptus with Messiaen's ex post facto-romantic Preludes and Ravel's preternaturally difficult Gaspard de la nuit is ingenious, revealing things about all three composers that no other program could reveal. Second, the performance: Alexander Lonquich is a German pianist whose technique is impeccable, whose tone is magisterial, and whose taste is irreproachable, a German pianist who can play French music with cosmopolitan elegance. Third, the recording: perhaps one should by now be used to the irrefutable fact that ECM makes some of the most realistic and impressive-sounding recordings in the world, but each new disc is a revelation. Taken all together, Alexander Lonquich's recital is exactly the sort of thing to excite and enthrall even the most jaded listener.
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Gabriel Fauré, Composer - Alexander Lonquich, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Peter Länger, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2004 ECM Records GmbH, under exclusive license to Universal Music Classics & Jazz - a division of Universal Music GmbH
Préludes (Olivier Messiaen)
Olivier Messiaen, Composer - Alexander Lonquich, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Peter Länger, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2004 ECM Records GmbH, under exclusive license to Universal Music Classics & Jazz - a division of Universal Music GmbH
Olivier Messiaen, Composer - Alexander Lonquich, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Peter Länger, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2004 ECM Records GmbH, under exclusive license to Universal Music Classics & Jazz - a division of Universal Music GmbH
Olivier Messiaen, Composer - Alexander Lonquich, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Peter Länger, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2004 ECM Records GmbH, under exclusive license to Universal Music Classics & Jazz - a division of Universal Music GmbH
Olivier Messiaen, Composer - Alexander Lonquich, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Peter Länger, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2004 ECM Records GmbH, under exclusive license to Universal Music Classics & Jazz - a division of Universal Music GmbH
Olivier Messiaen, Composer - Alexander Lonquich, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Peter Länger, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2004 ECM Records GmbH, under exclusive license to Universal Music Classics & Jazz - a division of Universal Music GmbH
Olivier Messiaen, Composer - Alexander Lonquich, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Peter Länger, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2004 ECM Records GmbH, under exclusive license to Universal Music Classics & Jazz - a division of Universal Music GmbH
Olivier Messiaen, Composer - Alexander Lonquich, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Peter Länger, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2004 ECM Records GmbH, under exclusive license to Universal Music Classics & Jazz - a division of Universal Music GmbH
Olivier Messiaen, Composer - Alexander Lonquich, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Peter Länger, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2004 ECM Records GmbH, under exclusive license to Universal Music Classics & Jazz - a division of Universal Music GmbH
Gabriel Fauré, Composer - Alexander Lonquich, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Peter Länger, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2004 ECM Records GmbH, under exclusive license to Universal Music Classics & Jazz - a division of Universal Music GmbH
Gabriel Fauré, Composer - Alexander Lonquich, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Peter Länger, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2004 ECM Records GmbH, under exclusive license to Universal Music Classics & Jazz - a division of Universal Music GmbH
Gabriel Fauré, Composer - Alexander Lonquich, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Peter Länger, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2004 ECM Records GmbH, under exclusive license to Universal Music Classics & Jazz - a division of Universal Music GmbH
Gaspard de la nuit, M.55 (Maurice Ravel)
Maurice Ravel, Composer - Alexander Lonquich, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Peter Länger, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2004 ECM Records GmbH, under exclusive license to Universal Music Classics & Jazz - a division of Universal Music GmbH
Maurice Ravel, Composer - Alexander Lonquich, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Peter Länger, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2004 ECM Records GmbH, under exclusive license to Universal Music Classics & Jazz - a division of Universal Music GmbH
Maurice Ravel, Composer - Alexander Lonquich, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Peter Länger, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2004 ECM Records GmbH, under exclusive license to Universal Music Classics & Jazz - a division of Universal Music GmbH
Gabriel Fauré, Composer - Alexander Lonquich, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Peter Länger, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2004 ECM Records GmbH, under exclusive license to Universal Music Classics & Jazz - a division of Universal Music GmbH
Album review
This disc has everything going for it. First, the repertoire is attractive and challenging. Second, the performance is evocative and virtuosic. Third, the recording is vivid and immediate. What more could a listener want?
First, the repertoire: mixing Fauré's proto-modernist Impromptus with Messiaen's ex post facto-romantic Preludes and Ravel's preternaturally difficult Gaspard de la nuit is ingenious, revealing things about all three composers that no other program could reveal. Second, the performance: Alexander Lonquich is a German pianist whose technique is impeccable, whose tone is magisterial, and whose taste is irreproachable, a German pianist who can play French music with cosmopolitan elegance. Third, the recording: perhaps one should by now be used to the irrefutable fact that ECM makes some of the most realistic and impressive-sounding recordings in the world, but each new disc is a revelation. Taken all together, Alexander Lonquich's recital is exactly the sort of thing to excite and enthrall even the most jaded listener.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 16 track(s)
- Total length: 01:18:24
- Main artists: Alexander Lonquich
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: ECM New Series
- Genre: Classical
© 2004 ECM Records GmbH ℗ 2004 ECM Records GmbH
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