Andrew Brownell - Shades of Night (2023) [Official Digital Download]

Step back to a time when the night was an antithesis to the clarity of illumined day. In the especially fertile imaginations of the 19th-century Romantic composers, this was a time when the world gave itself over to mystery and magic.

These works explore the “otherness” of night and its potential for strangeness. The album also focuses on the theme of passion, mostly from the Romantic period.

In the especially fertile imaginations of the 19th-century Romantic composers, this was a time when, shielded from the gaze of the Almighty, the world gave itself over to mystery and magic: lovers met for forbidden trysts, revelers drank and cavorted through the small hours, and spirits walked the earth.

In this album, Brownell hopes to transport you out of our sterile, modern understanding of night and into the stranger, more interesting reality it must have been for most of human history. Described by Musical Opinion as “potentially one of the most significant pianists of his generation”, since winning 1st Prize at the 2005 J.N. Hummel Competition (Bratislava), he has achieved widespread recognition as “one of the foremost Hummel interpreters of our time” (Hudobný Život).

Brownell’s performances have been seen and heard on BBC radio and television, Classic FM, NPR, CBC, ORF, and RBB KulturRadio. He has been soloist with orchestras such as the Hallé, Royal Liverpool
Philharmonic, and Calgary Philharmonic.

Tracklist:
01. I. Adagio sostenuto
02. Nocturne in D-Flat Major, Op. 27 No. 2
03. Suite 1922, Op. 26 - Nachstück
04. Les sons et les parfums tournet dans l'air du soir
05. Le Rossignol en amour
06. Nocturne No. 5 in D Major, Op. 55
07. Double de Rossignol
08. Musique Nocturne
09. Nocturne in C Minor, Op. 48 No. 1
10. In der nacht
11. Nocturne, op. 33
12. Ii. Andante
13. Clair de Lune


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