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Tiberghien - Szymanowski: Masques, Metopes, Etudes (2014)

Posted By: peotuvave

Date: 18 Oct 2014 09:19:29

In Cédric Tiberghien’s first solo recording for Hyperion he embraces the sensual, crepuscular sound-world of Szymanowski’s piano music. Tiberghien’s expressive, mercurial, quicksilver playing with its extraordinary pianissimos and kaleidoscopic range of colour makes him an ideal performer of this repertoire. Szymanowski’s most celebrated works have been recorded here. The early 4 Études include the popular ‘Andante in modo d’una canzone’, a sorrowful song above slow repeated chords. The rest of the (later) works show the maturing of Szymanowki’s unique piano style and in particular the salutary influence of Ravel’s and Debussy’s weightless, diaphanous textures.

Composer: Karol Szymanowski
Performer: Cédric Tiberghien

Reviews: Despite enjoying the advocacy of several major pianists down the years, Karol Szymanowski’s piano pieces have remained an often overlooked treasure-trove of the repertory. But along with the rest of the composer’s output, this music is at last gaining wider currency, thanks to such interpreters today as Piotr Anderszewski, Rafal Blechacz and—triumphantly in this new release—Cédric Tiberghien. Few players of this music combine quite such clarity and articulation with shimmering sparkle and virtuosic flair: this is sophisticated pianism.

Most of this programme is devoted to middle-period works of 1915-16, but the composer’s Four Etudes Op 4 (composed between 1900 and 1902) provide attractive stylistic contrast. The most famous of these Scriabinesque pieces, the sorrowful and haunting No 3 in B flat minor, was made popular by Paderewski, and Tiberghien’s performance explains its enduring appeal. Occupying around the same total duration as these four pieces, the 12 Etudes Op 33 (dedicated to Alfred Cortot) are mercurial miniatures, yet Tiberghien makes something cumulatively big of them as a set.

As both the Masques and Métopes remind us, triptychs dominated Szymanowski’s middle-period thinking. Tiberghien is fully attuned to their style, finding an appropriately frigid character in the Doric-frieze-inspired Métopes, which close this recital. You will be left either wanting to listen again, or craving to hear another instalment from Tiberghien: perhaps the Mazurkas and Sonatas?

Tracklisting:

1. 12 Études Op 33 | Presto [1'06]
2. 12 Études Op 33 | Andantino soave [1'21]
3. 12 Études Op 33 | Vivace assai (agitato) [0'37]
4. 12 Études Op 33 | Presto (delicamente) [1'28]
5. 12 Études Op 33 | Andante espressivo [0'58]
6. 12 Études Op 33 | Vivace (agitato e marcato, vigoroso) [0'40]
7. 12 Études Op 33 | Allegro molto (con brio, burlesco) [1'03]
8. 12 Études Op 33 | Lento assai mesto (espressivo) [2'01]
9. 12 Études Op 33 | Animato (capriccioso e fantastico) [1'05]
10. 12 Études Op 33 | Presto tempestoso (molto agitato) [1'03]
11. 12 Études Op 33 | Andante soave [1'21]
12. 12 Études Op 33 | Presto (energico) [1'55]
13. Masques Op 34 | Shéhérazade [12'22]
14. Masques Op 34 | Tantris le Bouffon [7'37]
15. Masques Op 34 | La Sérénade de Don Juan [7'44]
16. 4 Études Op 4 | No 1 in E flat minor | Allegro moderato [3'57]
17. 4 Études Op 4 | No 2 in G flat major | Allegro molto (leggiero e veloce) [2'06]
18. 4 Études Op 4 | No 3 in B flat minor | Andante in modo duna canzone (con dolore) [4'18]
19. 4 Études Op 4 | No 4 in C major | Allegro (ma non troppo, affettuoso e rubato) [3'42]
20. Métopes Trois Poèmes Op 29 | Lîle des Sirènes [6'36]
21. Métopes Trois Poèmes Op 29 | Calypso [6'03]
22. Métopes Trois Poèmes Op 29 | Nausicaa [5'31]

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