Eliane Rodrigues – Debussy: Reflets (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Eliane Rodrigues – Debussy: Reflets (2018)
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With two critically-lauded releases on Navona Records (NOTTURNO, performing works by Chopin, and a four-album set, BEETHOVEN – 8 CONCERTI) pianist Eliane Rodrigues returns with REFLETS showcasing the pianist’s nuanced and thoughtful performances of fifteen works by Claude Debussy.

While it might seem that child prodigies are commonplace in the world of classical music, only a few truly make a lasting impact, one that lives on long after those prodigies have passed well into their adulthoods. Mozart began to play piano at the age of three, Beethoven did so at seven and a half, and Georges Bizet did so before his tenth birthday. Pianist Eliane Rodrigues, who began composing at three, played her first recital at five and first performed with an orchestra when she was just six years of age, can certainly be counted among those prodigious musicians, as evidenced on her latest recording, REFLETS.

The album opens with “Suite Bergamasque,” one of Debussy’s most well-known piano suites. The dynamic contrasts in the moods of the suite’s four pieces are well suited to Rodrigues’ sensitive and vivid style. Debussy is credited as one of the ‘founders’ of Impressionist music, distinguished by its focus on suggestions and atmosphere, a world that Rodrigues also inhabits here, as evidenced by her cascading and powerfully textured performance of Debussy’s “Ballade.” “Pour le Piano,” certainly one of the composer’s most moving works for solo piano, features rapid, brilliant passages that fully emphasize the pianist’s virtuosity.

That impressionistic ability to invoke a mood or a feeling carries on with “First Arabesque in E Major,” one of a pair composed early in Debussy’s career. “Images,” comprised of two ‘books’ of three pieces each, ranging from the subdued “Homage à Rameau” to the energy of “Mouvement,” marked by the torrent of notes in its finale.

Eliane Rodrigues was born in Rio de Janiero, where the performances that she gave in her childhood bore fruit when she was awarded the Gina Bachauer prize at the Van Cliburn Competition in the United States at only 18 years of age. She has gone on to perform internationally, as well as to hold the position of professor at the Royal Conservatoire in Antwerp. She has also recorded more than 25 CDs, recorded both live and in the studio; REFLETS on which Rodrigues plays a Fazioli Concert Grand F728, was recorded in Belgium at Academy One Studios.

“In each of the Nocturnes, she plunges into their collective heart traversing their boundless emotional range with an aristocratic imperiousness that sets her interpretations apart from almost anyone else’s.” (Raul de Gama, World Music Report, NOTTURNO)

Tracklist:
1-1. Eliane Rodrigues – Suite bergamasque, L. 75: I. Prélude (05:06)
1-2. Eliane Rodrigues – Suite bergamasque, L. 75: II. Menuet (04:24)
1-3. Eliane Rodrigues – Suite bergamasque, L. 75: III. Clair de lune (05:19)
1-4. Eliane Rodrigues – Suite bergamasque, L. 75: IV. Passepied (03:19)
1-5. Eliane Rodrigues – Ballade, L. 70 (06:57)
1-6. Eliane Rodrigues – Pour le piano, L. 95: I. Prélude (03:59)
1-7. Eliane Rodrigues – Pour le piano, L. 95: II. Sarabande (05:12)
1-8. Eliane Rodrigues – Pour le piano, L. 95: III. Toccata (03:34)
1-9. Eliane Rodrigues – 2 Arabesques, L. 66: No. 1 in E Major (04:51)
1-10. Eliane Rodrigues – Images, Book 1, L. 110: No. 1, Reflets dans l’eau (05:32)
1-11. Eliane Rodrigues – Images, Book 1, L. 110: No. 2, Hommage à Rameau (06:56)
1-12. Eliane Rodrigues – Images, Book 1, L. 110: No. 3, Mouvement (02:55)
1-13. Eliane Rodrigues – Images, Book 2, L. 111: No. 1, Cloches à travers les feuilles (04:34)
1-14. Eliane Rodrigues – Images, Book 2, L. 111: No. 2, Et la lune descend sur le temple qui fut (05:19)
1-15. Eliane Rodrigues – Images, Book 2, L. 111: No. 3, Poissons d’or (03:46)
1-16. Eliane Rodrigues – Children’s Corner, L. 113: I. Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum (Bonus Track) (02:25)
1-17. Eliane Rodrigues – Children’s Corner, L. 113: II. Jimbo’s Lullaby (Bonus Track) (02:55)
1-18. Eliane Rodrigues – Children’s Corner, L. 113: III. Serenade for a Doll (Bonus Track) (02:17)
1-19. Eliane Rodrigues – Children’s Corner, L. 113: IV. The Snow Is Dancing (Bonus Track) (02:30)
1-20. Eliane Rodrigues – Children’s Corner, L. 113: V. The Little Shepherd (Bonus Track) (02:33)
1-21. Eliane Rodrigues – Children’s Corner, L. 113: VI. Golliwogg’s Cake-Walk (Bonus Track) (02:56)

Personnel:
Eliane Rodrigues, piano

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