Jonathan Benichou - Greif: 3 Sonates pour piano (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

A musician always in research, Jonathan Bénichou immerses himself throughout his musical career in the heritage of French and Russian pianistic schools from which he draws a personal synthesis, like his origins, of multiple culture. He is invited to perform in recital and with orchestra in France, by renowned Festivals, Germany, Belgium, Ukraine, Russia, Czechia, Poland, Moldova, Transnistria, Romania in the United States and in Colombia.

Attracted by the search for alternative musical languages, he composes the soundtracks of various short films and continues to explore new sound ideas within the framework of multidisciplinary projects. He also composes works for piano: Réminiscences, “Transmutation” Suite, La Princesse exilée, Imploration, Fantaisie, Forgotten Waltz and creates his first string quartet at the Cortot Room as part of the Freshly composed series, and Rachi Centre in Paris and Museum Chagall in Nice.

In chamber music, he plays regularly with numerous partners with whom he maintains a bond which leads him to perform in numerous groups. He continues a partnership with Hélios Azoulay and the Ensemble de musique incidentale and plays works written in the concentration camps by performing in France, Germany, Belgium and participates in radio and television broadcasts on France Musique, RFI, Arte, Mezzo, Fr2, Fr3, as well as abroad.

Tracklist:
01. Piano Sonata No. 14 "Dans le goût ancien": I. Symphonia
02. Piano Sonata No. 14 "Dans le goût ancien": II. Musette
03. Piano Sonata No. 14 "Dans le goût ancien": III. Chasse
04. Piano Sonata No. 14 "Le Rêve du Monde": I. Le garçon (pur) comme l’or
05. Piano Sonata No. 20 "Le Rêve du Monde": II. Wagon plombé pour Auschwitz
06. Piano Sonata No. 20 "Le Rêve du Monde": III. Thrène des désincarnés
07. Piano Sonata No. 20 "Le Rêve du Monde": IV. Un éblouissement de Sri Ramakrishna
08. Piano Sonata No. 9 "Paradisiac Memories": I. A Mourning Brew
09. Piano Sonata No. 9 "Paradisiac Memories": II. The Aegyptian Mathematician
10. Piano Sonata No. 9 "Paradisiac Memories": III. Stars! Stars! (To the memory of Marilyn Monroe)
11. Piano Sonata No. 9 "Paradisiac Memories": IV. 42nd Street (To the memory of Busby Berkeley)


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