New
Release:
Mark Swartzentruber,
piano
Debussy
Now available on 
****
Brilliantly executed- CD of the
Week, London Evening Standard
Immediate and
compellingTerrific performances- International
Record Review
Crystalline clarity
ripples from his fingers- The
Observer
His playing leaves you
once more in awe of Debussy-
Gramophone
Superbly atmospheric Pianist Magazine
This is first-class
Debussy playing Musical Opinion
Images,
Book I
Ballade
Estampes
Rverie
Pour le piano
Total timing 60:33
Solo
Records, SLR 5
RRP 11.99
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Pianist and piano in perfect harmony.
Mark
Swartzentrubers rare balance of sense and sensibility in this Debussy recital
strips away all possible vagueness or accretion. Scrupulously true to the score
yet entirely personal, his playing leaves you once more in awe of Debussy.
Choosing the virtuosic LIsle joyeuse (even Rachmaninov found it difficult) for his
curtain raiser, he touches off page after page with the sort of imaginative
freedom and detail that often eludes French pianists, exultant, sultry and
atmospheric as required. Hear him at the close of Reflets dans leau, magically sensitive to
the composers receding vision. His rubato in Hommage a Rameau is subtle and pervasive,
quickening and relaxing the musics mood and pulse with an aristocratic ease and
naturalness; in the whirling enigma of Mouvement his clarity and focus are
the reverse of superficial display. In the Prelude from Pour le piano Swartzentrubers rhetoric
is arrestingly novel but always convincing, and all these performances show an
enviable mix of clarity and lucidity, colour and variety. This pianists slowly
evolving discography is of a special distinction and his Fazioli instrument
adds a distinctive quality and tang to Solos exceptionally refined sound.
-Gramophone Magazine
Producer:
Misha Donat
Engineer:
Tony Faulkner
Piano: Fazioli 278
Recorded in Fazioli Concert Hall, Sacile,
Italy
Distributed
by: Discovery Records Ltd., Tel:
01380 728 000, Email: info@discovery-records.com
For
further information contact: Mary Bradbury
Solo
Records, 40 Osborne Road, London, N4 3SD, Tel: 0207 272 7911, email: mary@solorecords.com
Website: www.solorecords.com
