Vincent Larderet - Brahms & Berg: Piano Works (2017)

The first Brahms, the last Brahms, the first Berg: Brahms was twenty when he composed his Third Sonata in 1853, Berg twenty-three at the time of his only Sonata in that year 1910 … If the Sonata in F minor of Brahms represents the fulfillment and summit of the great romantic sonata - the timing of his symphonic gigantism - in the lineage from Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven to Schumann, Berg's Sonata symbolizes both the end of an epoch Closing the romantic sonata and opening up to the future. It is quite another world than that of Intermezzi Op. 117 of 1892, in which the art of chiaroscuro and half-tone is expressed. Brahms reconnects with the piano and his last cycles form a kind of pianistic testament. It is perhaps the most intimate of Brahms, who will also call some of his later plays "the lullabies of my pain" … Berg will obviously remember it in his Sonata. The program of this album signed by the pianist Vincent Larderet proposes the three Intermezzi as an obvious transition to the Berg Sonata, which one can readily imagine - in its extreme conciseness - as a synthesis between the sonata form and the introspection of 'A Klavierstück. Vincent Larderet has established himself on the international stage as one of the most remarkable French pianists of his generation. Honored as a "grandiose pianist" by PIANO News in Germany, singled out for his "very lyrical play" by Crescendo Magazine in Belgium and for a "touch of infinite flexibility" by Classica, he knows how to make a piano sound from the piano Multiple "arising" and fly away from the keyboard the mirage of an orchestra, "according to Gilles Macassar in Télérama. It should also be noted that it was the classic revelation of ADAMI. If that's not enough.

TRACKLIST

01. Piano Sonata No. 3 in F Minor, Op. 5: I. Allegro maestoso
02. Piano Sonata No. 3 in F Minor, Op. 5: II. Andante espressivo
03. Piano Sonata No. 3 in F Minor, Op. 5: III. Scherzo: Allegro energico
04. Piano Sonata No. 3 in F Minor, Op. 5: IV. Intermezzo (Ruckblick): Andante molto
05. Piano Sonata No. 3 in F Minor, Op. 5: V. Finale: Allegro moderato ma rubato
06. 3 Intermezzi, Op. 117: No. 1 in E-Flat Major
07. 3 Intermezzi, Op. 117: No. 2 in B-Flat Minor
08. 3 Intermezzi, Op. 117: No. 3 in C-Sharp Minor
09. Piano Sonata, Op. 1: I. Mäßig bewegt