Artist: Nelson Goerner
Album: Claude Debussy: Estampes – Etudes Book II – Images Book I – L’isle joyeuse
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2013
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 88,2 kHz
Duration: 01:02:03
Total Tracks: 13
Total Size: 851 MB

Tracklist:

01. Nelson Goerner – Estampes, L. 100:I. Pagodes (05:03)
02. Nelson Goerner – Estampes, L. 100:II. La soirée dans Grenade (05:17)
03. Nelson Goerner – Estampes, L. 100:III. Jardins sous la pluie (03:33)
04. Nelson Goerner – Etudes, Book 2, L. 136:VII. Pour les degrés chromatiques (02:16)
05. Nelson Goerner – Etudes, Book 2, L. 136:VIII. Pour les agréments (05:18)
06. Nelson Goerner – Etudes, Book 2, L. 136:IX. Pour les notes répétées (03:18)
07. Nelson Goerner – Etudes, Book 2, L. 136:X. Pour les sonorités opposées (05:40)
08. Nelson Goerner – Etudes, Book 2, L. 136:XI. Pour les arpèges composés (04:29)
09. Nelson Goerner – Etudes, Book 2, L. 136:XII. Pour les accords (04:49)
10. Nelson Goerner – Images, Book 1, L. 110:I. Reflets dans l’eau (05:10)
11. Nelson Goerner – Images, Book 1, L. 110:II. Hommage à Rameau (06:58)
12. Nelson Goerner – Images, Book 1, L. 110:III. Mouvement (03:32)
13. Nelson Goerner – L’isle joyeuse, L. 106 (06:33)

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‘Obviously,from the interpreter of these pieces of all the pieces on this CD one expects skill and sensitivity.But there must be still more:a gift for colour;an ability to imagine decors;a vision of textures,of space.And also,for these pieces that are at once heir to and summing-up of a glorious tradition,a wide-ranging knowledge,a culture of the piano repertoire.The interpreter of the Études is situated at the finishing line of a marathon,that of the keyboard en blanc et noir.He or she must know everything,and play nearly everything.Nelson Goerner is one such pianist.’Dominique Jameux.Argentine pianist Nelson Goerner isn’t known for French music, although he does perform Debussy’s L’Isle Joyeuse in recital sometimes. This beautifully recorded release from the Linn label, however, gives the lie to the idea that pianists necessarily have a specialty, like vocalists, outside which they don’t perform well. The album was recorded at the Teldex studios in Berlin, which have rarely if ever been better exploited than by Linn’s engineers here. They capture the delicacy of Goerner’s mists, the full resonance of the bacchanalian finale of L’Isle Joyeuse. Nearly equally good are the performances themselves. Goerner has lots of competition in these familiar Debussy works, but his versions are worth considering not only for their lovely, subtle palette of textures but also for the unique sound world he coaxes out of each work. Try the rather pan-Asian concept of Pagodes, from the Estampes set at the beginning: the title is East Asian, but the musical inspiration is Indonesian, and the work has rarely sounded more like the cyclical layers of a gamelan echoing in a Javanese night. Each of the Etudes comes to life in its own technical-poetic space. Goerner’s program is not organized chronologically nor by complete set; instead it follows an internal poetic logic, and by the end it has become profoundly hypnotic. Very, very fine playing.