Suzana Bartal – Années de pèlerinage (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Suzana Bartal – Années de pèlerinage (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:48:40 minutes | 2,62 GB | Genre: Classical
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Suzana Bartal establishes herself as one of the exciting talents of her generation. Winner of the New York Concert Artists Concerto Competition in 2013, her playing has been hailed as “brilliant, full of shades and virtuosic” by the Bonner Anzeiger. Recent performances have taken her to prestigious venues such as the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn, Salle Pleyel and Radio France in Paris, Merkin Hall in New York as well as Milton Court in London and she has made recordings on France Musique, the WDR (West Deutscher Rundfunk) and the Danish Radio.

Having recently travelled to many new countries, through different settings and places consecrated by history and poetry; having felt that the phenomena of nature and their attendant sights did not pass before my eyes as pointless images but stirred deep emotions in my soul, and that between us a vague but immediate relationship had established itself, an undefined but real rapport, an inexplicable but undeniable communication, I have tried to portray in music a few of my strongest sensations and most lively impressions”. (Franz Liszt, Circa 1850)

These Années de pèlerinage by Franz Liszt (1811-1856) – the monumental piano work in three books that he composed over four decades – invites us on a threefold voyage: a journey through the thought and the art of a composer who gifted all his visionary genius to the piano; here he transcribes an actual physical geography, and transcends it with some of the most accomplished piano writing ever crafted. Our radiant guide on this great adventure is French-Hungarian pianist Suzana Bartal.

From the bucolic Swiss scenes of nature to the evanescent mysticism of the final book, via the sudden flashes of the well-known Orage (Storm) and Après une lecture du Dante (After reading Dante), the pianist – one of the rare performers to present a complete recording of this dense, demandingly virtuosic masterwork – opens up astounding perspectives of sound and vision. ‘What I wanted was to translate this mixture of inspiration and technical brilliance so as to highlight the poetic aspect of these pieces,’ she says. ‘My core aim is to guide the listener through this poetic journey in all its incredible variety, by clearly defining the character of each piece so as to recreate their different worlds.’

Tracklist:
01. Suzana Bartal – Années de pèlerinage I, S. 160: Chapelle de Guillaume Tell (05:48)
02. Suzana Bartal – Années de pèlerinage I, S. 160: Au lac de Wallenstadt (02:40)
03. Suzana Bartal – Années de pèlerinage I, S. 160: Pastorale (01:33)
04. Suzana Bartal – Années de pèlerinage I, S. 160: Au bord d’une source (04:08)
05. Suzana Bartal – Années de pèlerinage I, S. 160: Orage (04:35)
06. Suzana Bartal – Années de pèlerinage I, S. 160: Vallée d’Obermann (13:57)
07. Suzana Bartal – Années de pèlerinage I, S. 160: Eglogue (03:40)
08. Suzana Bartal – Années de pèlerinage I, S. 160: Le mal du pays (05:35)
09. Suzana Bartal – Années de pèlerinage I, S. 160: Les cloches de Genève (06:21)
10. Suzana Bartal – Années de pèlerinage II, S. 161: Sposalizio (08:07)
11. Suzana Bartal – Années de pèlerinage II, S. 161: Il Pensieroso (03:51)
12. Suzana Bartal – Années de pèlerinage II, S. 161: Canzonetta del Salvator Rosa (02:48)
13. Suzana Bartal – Années de pèlerinage II, S. 161: Sonetto 47 del Petrarca (05:31)
14. Suzana Bartal – Années de pèlerinage II, S. 161: Sonetto 104 del Petrarca (06:08)
15. Suzana Bartal – Années de pèlerinage II, S. 161: Sonetto 123 del Petrarca (06:25)
16. Suzana Bartal – Années de pèlerinage II, S. 161: Après une lecture du Dante (17:31)
17. Suzana Bartal – Années de pèlerinage II, Supplément, S. 162: Gondoliera (05:50)
18. Suzana Bartal – Années de pèlerinage II, Supplément, S. 162: Canzone (03:37)
19. Suzana Bartal – Années de pèlerinage II, Supplément, S. 162: Tarantella da Guillaume Louis Cottrau (09:56)
20. Suzana Bartal – Années de pèlerinage III, S. 163: Angelus! Priere aux anges gardiens (08:33)
21. Suzana Bartal – Années de pèlerinage III, S. 163: Aux cypres de la Villa d’Este. Threnodie I (05:50)
22. Suzana Bartal – Années de pèlerinage III, S. 163: Aux cypres de la Villa d’Este. Threnodie II (09:45)
23. Suzana Bartal – Années de pèlerinage III, S. 163: Les jeux d’eaux à la Villa d’Este (08:31)
24. Suzana Bartal – Années de pèlerinage III, S. 163: Sunt lacrimae rerum, en mode hongrois (07:05)
25. Suzana Bartal – Années de pèlerinage III, S. 163: Marche funèbre (07:20)
26. Suzana Bartal – Années de pèlerinage III, S. 163: Sursum corda (03:21)

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