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Elene Gvritishvili & Alexey Pudinov – Silent Songs (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:22 minutes | 1,26 GB | Genre: Classical
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Silent Songs – the fascinating collection of songs by the eminent Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov – enchants with its incomparable atmosphere of silence in a new, impressive interpretation. Elene Gvritishvili and Alexey Pudinov’s selection of Silent Songs celebrates the subtle beauty of the music, the contemplative lyricism and the sound of their words. Silvestrov once called his neo-Romantic sounds composed after 1974 “metaphorical music.” In turn, he described his cycle of Silent Songs as “silence set to music.” With the Silent Songs, he created a musical song collection that invites the listener to experience the magic of music in its quietest and most intense form. The initiator and pianist of this recording Alexey Pudinov found in the young Russian soprano Elene Gvritishvili (who herself has Ukrainian roots) a vocal partner who intones the Russian (and Ukrainian) verses as delicately and beautifully as only a native speaker can. Interpreted for the first time by a female vocalist, not only the voice and the piano are touching in a congenially realized tonal fusion, but also the linguistic melody of the Russian and Ukrainian poetry. Silvestrov himself once said about the creation of his songs: “The sung words themselves become the melody. I read the poems, and out of the verses flowed the melodies that combined with the words.” The song collection includes settings of verse by Russian poets Pushkin, Lermontov, Baratynsky, Tyutchev, Yesenin, Mandelstam and Zhukovsky, Ukrainian poetry by Taras Shevchenko and Russian translations of poems by Keats and Shelley. Themes such as transience, memory and the search for inner peace are at the heart of the texts.
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Alexey Pudinov – Neue Bahnen (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:14:32 minutes | 586 MB | Genre: Classical
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“On his debut solo album the Russian pianist Alexey Pudinov (*1988) plays a very diverse program, which can only escape the impression of a hodgepodge if the interpretations are continuously exciting. In the interpretation of the second Brahms sonata Pudinov shows immediately the outstanding level of his performing. His highly musical and very spontaneous performance is never dominated by sound masses, but remains clear and transparent even in massive passages, even somehow light and flexible. Colors, rubato and an often astounding dynamic characterize this Second Sonata. The dynamic intemperance is not a challenge for Pudinov (in this he reminds me of Ugorski), but a terrain where he feels really comfortable, where he can show how pianistic this sonata is, masculine and yet also highly sensitive. The change to Chopin and his Fourth Ballade seems natural and not forced. Pudinov’s fine gradations, his suggestive rubato and his reflective playing help him telling the story that Chopin wrote down musically. The Andante and the Adagio of Rachmaninov Moments Musicaux Op. 16 are very introverted. But even in the Presto effects and virtuosic magic are avoided; in contrast, an overall transparency is emphasized. Pudinov plays each of the three pieces very profoundly and narratively, making each Moment Musical a little story. A very good interpretation of Fazil Say’s Gershwin Variations leads to Impressions on Rothko by composer Dennis Tjiock, born in 1994. This piece was inspired by Mark Rothko, an American Abstract Expressionist painter and pioneer of color field painting. The three minimalist movements are played by Pudinov with great feeling and expression, making them lastingly effective. Pudinov ends his program more than impressively with Bach’s Prelude BWV 855A in Siloti’s transcription. He emphasizes the bass line with astonishing expressive power, underlining the contrast with the ornamented melodic line, which thus becomes all the more expressive. Emil Gilels concluded his legendary Seattle Recital (DG) with this piece. The comparison shows that Pudinov is very superior to his compatriot in this work. Together with the rest of the expressions from this wonderful piano disc, this interpretation makes me say that 32-year-old Alexey Pudinov is one of the most interesting young pianists I have heard in recent years.” (Remy Franck, pizzicato.lu)
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