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| Label Challenge Classics |
UPC 0608917281927 |
Catalogue number CC 72819 |
Release date 27 September 2019 |
"Pre-Raphaelite music by Cyril Scott deserves a visit... Nino Gvetadze's anthology is all made of tranquillity. 5 Diapason"
Diapason, 04-9-2020Betoverd vanaf de eerste noot
Nino: "Jaren geleden al, toen ik studeerde aan het Tbilisi conservatorium in Georgië, had ik het voorrecht student te zijn van een prominente Georgische componist, pianist en pedagoog: Nodar Gabunia. Hij was een heel bijzonder, ik mag wel zeggen in vele opzichten uitzonderlijk begaafd, persoon. Elk jaar presenteerde hij zijn studenten tijdens een speciaal concert dat altijd een interessant en intrigerend thema had. Op een van deze avonden, die keer onder de naam 'Debussy en zijn tijdgenoten', vertrouwde hij het me toe om Lotus Land van Cyril Scott te spelen, het stuk dat me betoverde vanaf de eerste noten. En er valt zoveel meer te ontdekken over deze raadselachtige componist die een zee aan werken achterliet."Een kijkje in de wereld van Cyril Scott
Cyril Scott was voor de Eerste Wereldoorlog een sleutelfiguur in het de Britten helpen los te komen van het muzikale conservatisme en de heersende Duitse invloeden. De componist werd ooit door Eugene Goossens beschreven als 'de vader van de moderne Britse muziek'. Hij werd bewonderd door componisten als Claude Debussy, Richard Strauss en Igor Stravinski en componeerde muziek in zo goed als alle genres. Zijn muziek was modern voor die tijd, zo maakte hij stoutmoedige keuzes in structuur en harmonie. Na de Tweede Wereldoorlog taande zijn roem. Waarom blijft tot nu toe een raadsel. Wat de reden ook was, zijn muziek spreekt voor zich. Nino maakte een prachtige dwarsdoorsnede van zijn pianomuziek en koos stukken uit elke periode van zijn carrière. Samen vormen ze een prachtig dynamisch geheel. Nino Gvetadze: "Visions bevat een verzameling werken die de luisteraar een glimp gunnen van de atmosferische, rijke, mooie, tedere en meditatieve wereld van de pianomuziek van Cyrill Scott. Het album begint met een berceuse en leidt ons door de nacht gevuld met kleurrijke 'visioenen', gevolgd door het 'ochtendlied' en de wijze en dromerige epiloog 'over de prairie'." Kortom muziek om bij weg te dromen.Born and raised in Tbilisi, Georgian pianist Nino Gvetadze leads an international career as a soloist and a chamber musician. Her performances have been praised by many critics throughout the Europe and Asia. Nino received various awards, the most important were the Second Prize, Press Prize and Audience Award at the International Franz Liszt Piano Competition 2008. She became the winner of prestigious Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award in 2010. Since 2019 Nino Gvetadze is the Artistic Leader of Naarden International Piano Festival.
Nino Gvetadze has performed with many outstanding conductors such as Michel Plasson, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Michel Tabachnik, John Axelrod and Jaap van Zweden and with orchestras such as the Rotterdam, Residentie-The Hague, Brussels, Espoo-Helsinki, Warsaw, Seoul and Netherlands Philharmonic, Bergische and the Rheinische Philharmonie, Münchner Symphoniker, amongst others. She toured with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Kammerakademie Potsdam, Camerata RCO and Amsterdam Sinfonietta.
Recent highlights are the performance of Ulvi Cemal Erkin’s piano concerto in Istanbul and the Variations on a nursery tune of Dohnány with the Liege Royal Philharmonic and chief conductor Gergely Madaras.
In recital Nino has performed all over the world, among other in Hannover (PRO MUSICA Preisträger amKlavier-Zyklus), Bayreuth, Herkulessaal and Prinzregententheater Munich, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, with Jean-Yves Thibaudet at the Spoleto Festival, Lucerne Piano Festival, Bunka-kaikan Hall Tokyo, Kuhrhaus Wiesbaden, the Festival Piano aux Jacobins (Toulouse), Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival (Finland). In the Netherlands Nino is a regular guest at Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Muziekgebouw Eindhoven and Edesche Concertzaal. Since 2008 Nino plays in the "Arosa Trio" with her colleagues Frederieke Saeijs and Maja Bogdanovic.
Nino Gvetadze is a Challenge Classics artist. On her 2nd album “Visions” she presents piano pieces of the English composer Cyril Scott. Music journal “Pianist” wrote about her first CD “Ghosts” with the 24 Préludes of Chopin: ‘Gvetadze makes the listener - partly thanks to the wonderful recording - companion of the most intimate thoughts’. Repertoire that has been released on other labels: piano works by Mussorgsky (Brilliant Classics), Rachmaninoff Preludes op 23 and op 32 (Etcetera), “Debussy” with the Préludes book I, Estampes and Claire de Lune (Orchid) and “Widmung” with Liszt piano works (Orchid). The Debussy CD was editor’s choice of both International Record Review (April 2014).
In Tbilisi Nino studied with Veronika Tumanishvili, Nodar Gabunia and Nana Khubutia. After her graduation Nino moved to the Netherlands to study with Paul Komen and Jan Wijn. Nino plays on a Steinway Grand Piano, kindly lent to her by the Dutch National Music Instrument Foundation.
Pre-Raphaelite music by Cyril Scott deserves a visit... Nino Gvetadze's anthology is all made of tranquillity.
5 Diapason
Diapason, 04-9-2020
Cyril Scott, a mysteious musician who deserves attention... Nino Gvetadze handles with love, expression and a gentle touch 22 pieces of his piano music... Scott was the avantguarde of those who today rediscover tonality and melody with no sense of guilt.
Classic Voice, 06-3-2020
Georgian pianist Nino Gvetadze gives a memorable and perfectly executed account of these diverse pieces. This album gives an encouraging and inspiring ‘glimpse into the atmospheric, rich, beautiful, tender, sometimes wayward and meditative world of Cyril Scott.
Music web International, 04-3-2020
Enchanting album.
Fanfare, 21-2-2020
These are highly perfumed performances of music that leans heavily in the direction of impressionism. Moreover, the 22 tracks give us an enticing sampling that can be unreservedly recommended.
American Record Guide, 19-2-2020
According to Scott, music was meant to reach the ideal state of mind, to get to the core of yourself." A beautiful story about who Scott is and how Nino Gvetadze sees him. Luister magazine is in the shops now!
Luister, 08-11-2019
Gvetadze creates a nice balance between beauty and architecture, between speed and tranquility.
Luister, 08-11-2019
A tribute to a composer today ignored by the Georgian-Dutch pianist Nino Gvetadze who gives these fascinating works with her loving and modest playing a velvety shine. gives a velvety sheen. A particularly beautiful CD, a real discovery.
Stretto, 05-11-2019
With feathery meandering playing and textures that are crystal clear and sensual at the same time, she guides you through Scott's static pieces.
De Standaard, 30-10-2019
Gvetadze hits a 'bullseye' with unknown Scott. …Gvetadze performances are beautiful: narrative, colourful, transparent.
NRC, 24-10-2019
These pieces are a treasure box for every pianist, and the fact that Nino Gvetadze feels very comfortable with them cannot be overheard. She plays imaginatively, letting the French characteristics of the music become just as clear as its unusual rhythms, and all this in manifold shimmering colours.
Pizzicato, 15-10-2019
Gvetadze makes her grand piano whisper and sing and let the rich colorite of the music shine beautifully. With her refined touch, she manages to touch the nocturnal, dreamy atmosphere that characterizes many of the pieces.
Het Parool, 04-10-2019
Gvetadze highlights both the uniqueness and the importance of Scott's work through her refined playing and sometimes remarkable tempo choices.
De Nieuwe Muze, 01-10-2019
Nino Gvetadze gives piano works by Cyril Scott a velvety shine.
De Volkskrant, 26-9-2019
A strong aspiring an blissful yearning,
Befreed from sense of separateness or dole;
A gladness born of last delights' enrapt returning,
To lie embraced for eye within the soul.
That mood image applies entirely to the music, and to the special interpretation. I hope for more Cyril Scott from Nino Gvetadze.
Opus Klassiek, 22-7-2019
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