Rachmaninov: Dissonance
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SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Dissonance
Asmik Grigorian (soprano), Lukas Geniušas (piano)
[ Alpha Classics / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 8 April 2022
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Following her triumphs on the stages of the Salzburg and Bayreuth festivals and at Covent Garden, Asmik Grigorian now belongs to the world's vocal elite. She joins Alpha Classics for several projects and presents here her very first recital, devoted to one of her favourite composers, Sergei Rachmaninov. This album, entitled Dissonance, assembles vocal works carefully chosen by the soprano for the contrasts they generate when grouped together: 'Most of Rachmaninov's songs really call for operatic power. In fact, he wrote mini-operas lasting a few minutes.' While this album is called Dissonance, in reference to the 'internal conflicts' that punctuate these songs, the duo formed by the Lithuanian singer and her pianist compatriot Lukas Geniušas is one of total consonance!
'A Soprano With a Bottomless Appetite for Risk' - The New York Times
"Grigorian is utterly compelling throughout. Even on disc, without the visuals, you can hear how Grigorian lives and breathes each song...Pianist Lukas Geniušas is an equal partner dramatically." - Gramophone
Gramophone Award WINNER 2022 - Song
"Whole worlds are packed into each of the 19 songs on this unmissable debut recital from Grigorian. The Lithuanian's soprano has a steely glint and powerful intensity, but nor does she stint on vulnerability and introspection. Geniušas is a superb piano partner." Five Stars BBC Music
"they make a compelling duo. Grigorian's singing is pristine, athletic, strong, less formidably impassioned than the never-to-be-replicated Galina Vishnevskaya, but she has delicacy and tenderness, too...As Grigorian's last phrase hangs in the air, the heart stands still." Five Stars Financial Times
"Her selection...brings out the visceral quality and dramatic expressiveness of her singing. Geniusas is equally transported by this most pianistic of composers. Some have questioned whether Grigorian is apt to sacrifice purity of tone for emotional attack, but that seems overly nitpicky when you witness the power she displays here" Sunday Times
Tracks:
Dissonance, Op. 34 No.13
Child! Thou Art as Beautiful as a Flower, Op. 8 No. 2
I Wait for Thee, Op. 14 No.1
Oh, Do not Grieve!, Op. 14 No.8
He Took All from Me, Op. 26 No.2
Twilight, Op. 21 No.3
They Answered, Op. 21 No.4
Believe Me Not, Friend!, Op. 14 No.7
How Fair this Spot, Op. 21 No.7
Do not Sing, My Beauty, Op. 4 No.4
No Prophet I, Op. 21 No.11
How Painful for Me, Op. 21 No.12
Lilacs, Op. 21 No.5
Spring Waters, Op. 14 No.11
The Dream, Op. 8 No.5
What Happiness, Op. 34 No.12
In the Silence of the Secret Night, Op. 4 No.3
Fragment from Musset, Op. 21 No.6
Let Us Rest, Op. 26 No.3
