Yevgeny Sudbin plays Liszt, Ravel & Saint-Saëns
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LISZT / RAVEL / SAINT-SAENS
Yevgeny Sudbin plays Liszt, Ravel & Saint-Saëns
Yevgeny Sudbin (piano)
[ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD ]
Release Date: Monday 1 October 2012
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Funérailles is Liszt's elegy for his Hungarian countrymen who died in the 1849 uprising against Habsburg Rule. Death also appears in Ravel's depiction of a hanging - Le Gibet (The Gallows) from Gaspard de la Nuit - and closes the programme in Saint-Saëns' Danse macabre.
Love is present in the Petrarch Sonnets - originally song settings of poems in which Petrarch immortalises, the object of his unrequited passion - and Ravel's Ondine - the tale of a water nymph tempting a mortal to join her in the depths of the lake.
Delirium is present throughout the disc, especially during the nightmarish portrait of the goblin Scarbo.
Yevgeny Sudbin has received considerable critical acclaim for his recordings on BIS. His disc of music by Scriabin was described in BBC Music Magazine as being 'as terrifyingly changeable and emotionally all-engulfing as the music itself'.
"His Liszt is remarkable. The F minor Transcendental Study's brand of miraculous virtuosity, at once tumultuous and limpid, is marvellously captured." (BBC Music Five Stars)
"in an age of much standardised playing, his performances are vividly personal both in technique and in character...few have carried the richly ornamented vocal lines [of the Petrarch Sonnets] forwards with a more breathless ardour and momentum...then there is Ravel's Gaspard in a performance of rare imaginative resource...This is a record I shall return to for an ever-renewed sense of wonder and fascination." (Gramophone)
Tracks:
Liszt:
Funérailles (Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, S. 173 No. 7)
Transcendental Study, S139 No. 11 'Harmonies du soir'
Sonetti di Petrarca (3) for piano, S. 158
Ravel:
Gaspard de la Nuit
Saint-Saëns:
Danse macabre, Op. 40
based on the transcription by Franz Liszt
