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Product Microsite: http://www.deutschegrammophon.com/grimaud-recital |
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ARTISTS TRACKLISTING 'A brilliant classical pianist . . . Her music has the power to inspire people . . .'
Hélène Grimaud has had a brilliant success with her first album on Deutsche Grammophon. Now she makes her return with what can easily be called the most intimate recording she has done so far. Juxtaposing the second piano sonatas by Chopin and Rachmaninov, this program contains the very soul of Romantic piano literature - the sheer colour and uncompromising emotionality of this music is breathtaking. As she is one of the most gifted pianists of our time, with an almost unheard-of sensitivity to emotional shades there is almost certainly no one who could make this music sound more alive than Hélène. In speaking about this recording Hélène said 'What is it that makes these pieces so beautiful? For a start, the fact that one has the impression of hearing the two composers sing of their sorrow from a distance. They are singing not only of the deaths of those close to them, or even their own death: they are offering a refuge for the anxiety of everyone who is going to die. They understand that truth in music, reflecting that of all existence, comes not from simulating happiness but from defining its tragedy in a burst of flame. And thus the promise of reconciliation between time and space becomes a struggle of desperate intensity.' |
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