德布西: 鋼琴曲集 / 尚-保羅．戈斯帕利安 鋼琴

德布西: 鋼琴曲集 (前奏曲第一册/版畫/印象) / 尚-保羅.戈斯帕利安 鋼琴

作曲家: Debussy
演出者: Jean-Paul Gasparian (piano) 

The French pianist Jean-Paul Gasparian has chosen Debussy for his first album with naive, an album full of sensitivity and colour, including the first ever recording of the transcription of the Rondes de printemps.

With this album devoted solely to Debussy, Jean-Paul Gasparian invites listeners to integrate the atmospheres, colours and timbres that make up Debussy's world. "The piano, here," he says, "is a tool that lets your imagination wander, a machine that creates perceptions. Like a sort of stationary journey."

It is also an opportunity for Jean-Paul Gasparian to show us another facet of his temperament, already seen in Rachmaninoff and the Romantic repertoire, and return to his beginnings: a musical education from the great masters of the French school, who endowed him with its legacy, and a father who staunchly defended French music.

His father, incidentally, is also the author of the piano transcription of Rondes de printemps, one of the three Images pour orchestre, that this album produces for the first time on CD.

Throughout this recording, we find the challenge of sound: a sound that the pianist intended as 'immaterial', just like the style of the composer, said to have caressed the piano when he played.

A sound that imitates to perfection the crystalline textures and the ineffable poetry of these pieces whose programmes are suggested by the composer and intended as impressions rather than illustrations. These include the spellbinding Des sons et des parfums tournent dans l'air du soir, the magnificent La Cathedrale engloutie, and the playful Jardins sous la pluie, from Estampes.

曲目:

preludes, livre I 1909-10
1. I. (… Danseuses de Delphes) 4'07
2. II. (… Voiles) 4'34
3. III. (… Le vent dans la plaine) 2'12
4. IV. (… Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l'air du soir) 3'51
5. V. (… Les collines d'Anacapri) 3'17
6. VI. (… Des pas sur la neige) 4'47
7. VII. (… Ce qu'a vu le vent d'ouest) 3'28
8. VIII. (… La fille aux cheveux de lin) 2'49
9. IX. (… La serenade interrompue) 2'58
10. X. (… La Cathedrale engloutie) 7'04
11. XI. (… La danse de Puck) 2'46
12. XII. (… Minstrels) 2'34
estampes 1903
13. I. Pagodes 5'38
14. II. La soiree dans Grenade 5'54
15. III. Jardins sous la pluie 3'37
16. rondes de printemps, from images pour orchestre 1905-09 8'17
transcribed for piano by gerard gasparian in 2009 © editions durand
world premiere recording