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Deux poèmes, Op 71

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1913

Garrick Ohlsson (piano)
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Recording details: December 2013
Henry Wood Hall, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Andrew Keener
Engineered by David Hinitt
Release date: February 2015
Total duration: 3 minutes 36 seconds

Cover artwork: The Cloud (1902) by Arthur Hacker (1858-1919)
© Bradford Art Galleries and Museums, West Yorkshire / Bridgeman Images
 

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‘Today [Scriabin] enjoys a near classic status and Garrick Ohlsson’s disc of the complete Poèmes provides ample food for thought … his playing now reflects rich experience and musical quality … his empathy with so many fragmented dreamscapes is lucid and sensitive’ (Gramophone)

‘Scriabin's microcosmic soundworlds, powered by chains of augmented and chromatically liquefied harmonies, require a transcendental technique and the ability to conjure up simultaneously myriad differentiated sounds and textures. Ohlsson possesses remarkable facility … unleashes immense reserves of power … has the required delicacy of touch’ (BBC Music Magazine)» More
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‘Effortless virtuosity and total musical command’ (The Guardian)» More

‘Ohlsson plays with appropriate accuracy and wide gradations of touch. He uses the sustaining pedal sparingly and the damper to best effect where the phrasing calls for a firm staccato. His rhythmic control is excellent …’ (Audiophile Audition, USA)

‘Ohlsson, the pianistic prestidigitator, pulls it off again; a fine start to this centenary year’ (MusicWeb International)» More

‘Ohlsson need fear no comparisons. He has the technique for this music and sounds entirely in sympathy with it’ (MusicWeb International)» More

‘Ohlsson brings to these performances a clarity and level-headedness that perfectly complements the intoxicating power of Scriabin's music, and his exceptionally wide reach means that none of the technical demands are beyond his capability’ (The Europadisc Review)» More

‘Alexander Scriabin produced a steady torrent of miniatures between writing monumental pieces. American pianist Garrick Ohlsson gives an insight into the composer’s inner world in scintillating accounts of these varied Poèmes which were written over more than a decade’ (The Northern Echo)

«Grâce au pianiste américain, on entre à pas feutrés dans l'univers des Poèmes de Scriabine. La dimension fantastique et littéraire prend forme doucement dans un son rond et épais. Comme si par les couleurs de son Steinway, Garrick Ohlsson cherchait les diffractions lumineuses des poèmes orchestraux» (Classica, France)» More

„Ohlsson wird auch nie sentimental, versucht nicht, die Musik programmlich auszudeuten, wovor Scriabins erster Biograph, der Komponist und Schriftsteller Evgeny Gunst ja ausdrücklich gewarnt hat … alles in allem kann man schlussfolgern: so soll Scriabin klingen!“ (Pizzicato, Luxembourg)» More

„Garrick Ohlsson is an ideal interpreter of Scriabin’s music. With rather quick tempi, an unfailing sense for nuances and contrasts he always suggests that Scriabin was not a dreamer but a man living on the end of his nerves“ (Pizzicato, Luxembourg)

„Wenn man die Poèmes … einzeln oder paarweise hört, dann erkennt man, welch grandioser Interpret Ohlsson für diese Werke ist“ (Piano News, Germany)» More
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Of the Deux poèmes, Op 71, also written in 1913, the first is marked Fantastique, posing ‘a tragic question’ (Sergei Pavchinsky), with swirling arpeggios, and with diminuendos which recall the dematerializing sounds of the Poème-nocturne. The second, En rêvant, avec une grande douceur, expresses with its arching, trilling phrases the upward striving of Scriabin’s world-view.

from notes by Simon Nicholls © 2015

Le premier des Deux poèmes op.71 (1913) est marqué Fantastique et pose «une question tragique» (Sergueï Pavchinsky), avec des arpèges tournoyants et des diminuendos renouvelés des sonorités en voie de dématérialisation du Poème-nocturne. Le second, En rêvant, avec une grande douceur, dit, avec ses phrases en arche qui trillent, l’effort ascendant de la Weltanschauung scriabinienne.

extrait des notes rédigées par Simon Nicholls © 2015
Français: Hypérion

Von den Deux poèmes op. 71, die ebenfalls 1913 entstanden, ist das erste mit Fantastique überschrieben, wobei unter wirbelnden Arpeggien „eine tragische Frage“ (Sergei Pawtschinsky) gestellt wird und Diminuendi erklingen, die an die entmaterialisierten Klänge des Poème-nocturne erinnern. Das zweite, En rêvant, avec une grande douceur, drückt mit seinen Trillern und sich wölbenden Phrasen das Aufwärtsstreben Skrjabins Weltanschauung aus.

aus dem Begleittext von Simon Nicholls © 2015
Deutsch: Viola Scheffel

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