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Twenty years of Russian piano: that's what we're being offered by the young pianist Jean-Paul Gasparian in his first - much-remarked-upon and very remarkable - discographic work. Gasparian starts in 1897 with Scriabin's Second Sonata (also known as the Sonata Fantasy), still strongly redolent of Chopin, but already showing a few of those harmonic equivocations which were so dear to the mystical composer). And then another Second Sonata, this one by Prokofiev in 1912 - with the "motoric", wild aspect very much to the fore. The pianist has made the very wise decision not to overdo the score's brutality, and carefully avoids drowning the work in noisome pedal effects. In the same year, 1912, Scriabin wrote his Three Études Op. 65 in the style of his late maturity, which shines through on Poem of Ecstasy: here again, the soloist opts for transparency, allowing the listener to really follow the harmonic and thematic content - if we can really give the name "themes" to these snatched vignettes, these stitched-together scraps, these ferocious sallies which sound like calls to musical revolt. The album opens with nine Études-tableaux Op. 39 by Rachmaninov, written in 1917, which mix the technical side of the étude with evocative art; deliberately imprecise, the composer never prescribes a programme, providing every listener and pianist with a blank canvas to fill as they see fit. To be sure, the "Isle of the Dead" element breaks out most fully in the second étude, in particular with the deathlessly evocative scraps of the Dies irae... In any case, let us welcome Jean-Paul Gasparian to the great European stage, after his short-notice stint as a stand-in for Zacharias in Germany, and whose career is unfolding with speed and confidence. © SM/Qobuz
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Sergei Rachmaninoff, Composer - Jean-Paul Gasparian, Piano, MainArtist
2018 Evidence/Little Tribeca 2017 Evidence/Little Tribeca
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Composer - Jean-Paul Gasparian, Piano, MainArtist
2018 Evidence/Little Tribeca 2017 Evidence/Little Tribeca
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Composer - Jean-Paul Gasparian, Piano, MainArtist
2018 Evidence/Little Tribeca 2017 Evidence/Little Tribeca
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Composer - Jean-Paul Gasparian, Piano, MainArtist
2018 Evidence/Little Tribeca 2017 Evidence/Little Tribeca
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Composer - Jean-Paul Gasparian, Piano, MainArtist
2018 Evidence/Little Tribeca 2017 Evidence/Little Tribeca
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Composer - Jean-Paul Gasparian, Piano, MainArtist
2018 Evidence/Little Tribeca 2017 Evidence/Little Tribeca
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Composer - Jean-Paul Gasparian, Piano, MainArtist
2018 Evidence/Little Tribeca 2017 Evidence/Little Tribeca
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Composer - Jean-Paul Gasparian, Piano, MainArtist
2018 Evidence/Little Tribeca 2017 Evidence/Little Tribeca
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Composer - Jean-Paul Gasparian, Piano, MainArtist
2018 Evidence/Little Tribeca 2017 Evidence/Little Tribeca
Alexandre Scriabin, Composer - Jean-Paul Gasparian, Piano, MainArtist
2018 Evidence/Little Tribeca 2017 Evidence/Little Tribeca
Alexandre Scriabin, Composer - Jean-Paul Gasparian, Piano, MainArtist
2018 Evidence/Little Tribeca 2017 Evidence/Little Tribeca
Trois Études, Op. 65 (Alexandre Scriabin)
Alexandre Scriabin, Composer - Jean-Paul Gasparian, Piano, MainArtist
2018 Evidence/Little Tribeca 2017 Evidence/Little Tribeca
Alexandre Scriabin, Composer - Jean-Paul Gasparian, Piano, MainArtist
2018 Evidence/Little Tribeca 2017 Evidence/Little Tribeca
Alexandre Scriabin, Composer - Jean-Paul Gasparian, Piano, MainArtist
2018 Evidence/Little Tribeca 2017 Evidence/Little Tribeca
Sergei Prokofiev, Composer - Jean-Paul Gasparian, Piano, MainArtist
2018 Evidence/Little Tribeca 2017 Evidence/Little Tribeca
Sergei Prokofiev, Composer - Jean-Paul Gasparian, Piano, MainArtist
2018 Evidence/Little Tribeca 2017 Evidence/Little Tribeca
Sergei Prokofiev, Composer - Jean-Paul Gasparian, Piano, MainArtist
2018 Evidence/Little Tribeca 2017 Evidence/Little Tribeca
Sergei Prokofiev, Composer - Jean-Paul Gasparian, Piano, MainArtist
2018 Evidence/Little Tribeca 2017 Evidence/Little Tribeca
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Twenty years of Russian piano: that's what we're being offered by the young pianist Jean-Paul Gasparian in his first - much-remarked-upon and very remarkable - discographic work. Gasparian starts in 1897 with Scriabin's Second Sonata (also known as the Sonata Fantasy), still strongly redolent of Chopin, but already showing a few of those harmonic equivocations which were so dear to the mystical composer). And then another Second Sonata, this one by Prokofiev in 1912 - with the "motoric", wild aspect very much to the fore. The pianist has made the very wise decision not to overdo the score's brutality, and carefully avoids drowning the work in noisome pedal effects. In the same year, 1912, Scriabin wrote his Three Études Op. 65 in the style of his late maturity, which shines through on Poem of Ecstasy: here again, the soloist opts for transparency, allowing the listener to really follow the harmonic and thematic content - if we can really give the name "themes" to these snatched vignettes, these stitched-together scraps, these ferocious sallies which sound like calls to musical revolt. The album opens with nine Études-tableaux Op. 39 by Rachmaninov, written in 1917, which mix the technical side of the étude with evocative art; deliberately imprecise, the composer never prescribes a programme, providing every listener and pianist with a blank canvas to fill as they see fit. To be sure, the "Isle of the Dead" element breaks out most fully in the second étude, in particular with the deathlessly evocative scraps of the Dies irae... In any case, let us welcome Jean-Paul Gasparian to the great European stage, after his short-notice stint as a stand-in for Zacharias in Germany, and whose career is unfolding with speed and confidence. © SM/Qobuz
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 18 track(s)
- Total length: 01:14:14
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Jean-Paul Gasparian
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Evidence (LTR)
- Genre: Classical
2018 Evidence/Little Tribeca 2017 Evidence/Little Tribeca
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