Towards the Flame Classical Piano Naxos

Towards the Flame

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NX 4312

Towards the Flame

Label Catalogue Number:
8.574312

Running Time: 00:56:09

Release Date: November 2021
Originally recorded in 2020

Genre:
Classical
Piano

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Both Scriabin and Langgaard believed that through their music they could pave the way for a spiritual revolution. The piano offered a perfect and very intimate medium for their highly personal harmonic and expressive vocabularies. Scriabin drew on daemonic associations in his Piano Sonata No. 9 to liberate the old tonal system, whereas Langgaard explored his youthful fascination with Catholicism in music of fanaticism and ecstasy. Langgaard’s The Flame Chambers and Scriabin’s Vers la flamme are feverish musical twins that exemplify both composers’ explosive intensity.

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Nominee in the Solo Instrument category

2023 ICMA Nominee

Interpretation ***** Sound ***** Repertoire *****

Hans-Dieter Grünefeld – Piano News (Germany) – March/April 2022

“… adept and involving performances, here accorded sound of admirable ..”

Richard Whitehouse – Gramophone magazine – February 2022

Performance **** Recording ****

“… This is, to my knowledge, the first time Scriabin has been paired with Langgaard on disc – it works well.”

Claire Jackson – BBC Music magazine – February 2022

Pizzicato Supersonic

“… Danish Gustav Piekut plays an original and coherent program, brilliantly demonstrating his technical and expressive means in it. He is technically highly gifted and plays with great spontaneity, but his playing also reflects thoughtfulness and emotion. He is certainly a specialist in timbres and dynamic variations and can combine them with a bold imagination… Only a true musical poet, a real sound artist can play like this. The sound recording is of captivating clarity.”

Remy Franck – Pizzicato.lu – 22 November 2021

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