Alexei Lubimov - Claude Debussy: Preludes [2CD]

Klasyczna Muzyka Kameralna
premiera polska: 2012-04-20
opakowanie: plastikowe etui
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'Preludia to było niegdyś parę akordów zaimprowizowanych przez lutnistę lub organistę w celu wypróbowania instrumentu. Był to też króciutki utwór zagrany jako podanie dźwięku śpiewakowi. Z czasem preludium stało się samodzielną formą muzyczną.

Claude Debussy skomponował 24 Preludia zgodnie z tradycją bachowską i chopinowską. Pierwszy zeszyt powstał w ciągu dwóch miesięcy, drugi - prawie w trzy lata. Według kompozytora, Preludia nie powinny być wykonywane w całości, ale najwyżej po cztery, aby były wysłuchane uważnie, jako wstęp do innych, bardziej obszernych utworów.

Co ciekawe, umieszczenie opisowych tytułów po zakończeniu każdego z nich sugeruje, że Debussy nie chciał, aby jego muzyka była postrzegana jako programowa. Preludia fortepianowe to pierwsze i, kto wie czy nie najważniejsze, wielkie dzieło pianistyczne kompozytora. Wielkie i nowatorskie. Na czym polega nowatorstwo?

Na dokonaniu wielkiej syntezy formalnej. Nie tylko na powtórzeniu dotychczasowych odkryć, ale na ich znaczącym rozwinięciu. Znamy wykonanie Zimermana z Kassel w 1991 r. Jak wypada Lubimow? Inaczej, ale ciekawie. Do tego Preludium do "Popołudnia fauna" na dwa fortepiany i "Nokturny" w transkrypcji Ravela. W tych dwóch utworach gra też Aleksiej Zujew.
autorka: Barbara Tenderenda

Editor's Info:
I wanted to hear Debussy in a different timbral guise, cloaked in the early 20th century colours that I would find on unique, specially selected instruments... In my search for an inspiring special sound I stumbled upon two excellent pianos that truly seduced me and breathed fresh life into the music... The music revealed itself to me from unknown angles, and like Ulysses bewitched by the Sirens, I let my pianos sing with their own voices and guide me into uncharted realms. Alexei Lubimov

A fortuitous encounter with an old Steinway in the Polish Embassy in Brussels said to be the instrument Padarewski played in his recitals stimulated Alexei Lubimov to think in new ways about these Debussy pieces he had played, often, over the last 40 years. Alexei Lubimov and fellow Russian pianist Alexei Zuev (a student of Lubimov s since 2000) play period instruments here, but as Jürg Stenzl emphasizes in the liner notes, they are concerned not with the mystique of authentic original instruments , but with the incomparably richer timbral vocabulary that Debussy posited for his music and displayed to supreme effect in his own playing. Moreover, the piano versions of two early works, Prélude to the Afternoon of a Faun and Trois Nocturnes , which fully capture the text of the orchestral scores in their piano writing (unlike conventional piano reductions ), bring out the structural, compositional and harmonic aspects with special clarity.

Lubimov plays the 1913 Steinway ( divinely soft in pianissimo, resonant and marvellously suitable for unexpected colours ) on the second book of Preludes. On the first book he plays a 1925 Bechstein ( clear, sharply-etched, translucent and light, even in complex textures ). The instruments are heard together in the pieces arranged for two pianos. On the Trois Nocturnes (in the two piano transcription by Ravel), Lubimov plays the Steinway and Zuev the Bechstein, on Prélude a l apres midi d un faun (in Debussy s own transcription) vice versa.

The work of Claude Debussy is, arguably, closer to the expressionism of Schoenberg than to the chiselled sonorities of a Chopin or the extravagant virtuosity of a Liszt, even if his refined art can still be seen in the line of tradition of 19th-century music. Debussy himself decried the concept of impressionism , the musical tendency with which he is most often identified, because he feared that superficial refinement might conceal the subtleties of a new musical idiom and its structural logic. Consequently, instead of heading his 24 Préludes in two books with programmatic titles in his autograph score, he appended them at the bottom of the individual pieces, encouraging open interpretation and response. As Debussy once said, Music is a free art gushing forth, an open-air art, boundless as the elements, the wind, the sky and the sea. It is in this spirit sans rigeur, as Debussy repeatedly marked his music that Alexei Lubimov plays these pieces.

Alexei Lubimov is widely recognised as both a champion of new music and an insightful interpreter of classical and baroque music. In 1968 in Moscow he premiered new works by Terry Riley and John Cage, and through the 1970s specialized in early music, also an enduring passion. His first ECM recital Der Bote (2000) scans history from C.P.E. Bach to Valentin Silvestrov and Tigran Mansurian. He has been one of the most important interpreters of new music from the former Soviet Union with landmark recordings of Silvestrov ( Metamusik , Postludium , and more), Arvo Pärt ( Lamentate ), Schnittke (Piano Quintet). His album Misterioso brings together music of Silverstrov, Pärt and Ustvolskaya. Other recordings include Messe Noire with piano music of Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, and Scriabin.

muzycy:
Alexei Lubimov: piano
Alexei Zuev: piano

utwory:
CD1:
1. Claude Debussy - Préludes (Premier Livre) - Danseuses de Delphes 03:16
2. Claude Debussy - Préludes (Premier Livre) - Voiles 04:00
3. Claude Debussy - Préludes (Premier Livre) - Le vent dans la plaine 02:13
4. Claude Debussy - Préludes (Premier Livre) - 'Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l'air du soir' 03:31
5. Claude Debussy - Préludes (Premier Livre) - Les collines d'Anacapri 02:53
6. Claude Debussy - Préludes (Premier Livre) - Des pas sur la neige 03:52
7. Claude Debussy - Préludes (Premier Livre) - Ce qu'a vu le vent d'ouest 03:25
8. Claude Debussy - Préludes (Premier Livre) - La fille aux cheveux de lin 02:28
9. Claude Debussy - Préludes (Premier Livre) - La sérénade interrompue 02:48
10. Claude Debussy - Préludes (Premier Livre) - La cathédrale engloutie 06:08
11. Claude Debussy - Préludes (Premier Livre) - La danse de Puck 02:57
12. Claude Debussy - Préludes (Premier Livre) - Minstrels 02:25
13. Claude Debussy - Trois Nocturnes - Nuages 06:49
14. Claude Debussy - Trois Nocturnes - Fetes 05:49
15. Claude Debussy - Trois Nocturnes - Sirenes 10:54

CD2:
1. Claude Debussy - Prélude A L'apres-Midi D'un Faune 08:48
2. Claude Debussy - Préludes (Deuxieme Livre) - Brouillards 03:54
3. Claude Debussy - Préludes (Deuxieme Livre) - Feuilles mortes 02:58
4. Claude Debussy - Préludes (Deuxieme Livre) - La puerta del vino 03:28
5. Claude Debussy - Préludes (Deuxieme Livre) - Les fées sont d'exquises danseuses 03:12
6. Claude Debussy - Préludes (Deuxieme Livre) - Bruyeres 03:09
7. Claude Debussy - Préludes (Deuxieme Livre) - General Lavine - excentric 02:44
8. Claude Debussy - Préludes (Deuxieme Livre) - La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune 04:12
9. Claude Debussy - Préludes (Deuxieme Livre) - Ondine 03:11
10. Claude Debussy - Préludes (Deuxieme Livre) - Hommage a S. Pickwick Esq. P.P.M.P.C. 02:36
11. Claude Debussy - Préludes (Deuxieme Livre) - Canope 03:02
12. Claude Debussy - Préludes (Deuxieme Livre) - Les tierces alternées 02:40
13. Claude Debussy - Préludes (Deuxieme Livre) - Feux d'artifice 04:49

wydano: 2012-04-20
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