Cyril Scott: Visions

Regular: £13.99

Sale
Regular: £13.99

Unavailable

Unit Price: per

Cat No: CC72819

Release Date: 15 November 2019

Label: Challenge Classics

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 608917281927

Genres: Classical Solo Instrumental

Description

For her second album 'Visions', Nino Gvetadze presents piano pieces by the early 20th century English composer Cyril Scott. This album contains a collection of pieces that will give the listener a glimpse of the atmospheric, rich, beautiful, tender and meditative world of piano music of the composer.

Nino Gvetadze: "Many years ago, when I studied at the Tbilisi Conservatory in Georgia, I had the privilege to be a student of a prominent Georgian composer, pianist and pedagogue, Nodar Gabunia. He was a very special, I would say exceptionally gifted person in many different ways. Every year he would present his students in a special concert that always had a very interesting and intriguing theme. On one of these evenings, this time under the name "Debussy and his contemporaries", he entrusted me to play Lotus Land by Cyril Scott, the piece that took me under its spell from the very first bars.
Cyril Scott was a key figure before World War I in helping Britain to break away from musical conservatism and the prevailing Germanic influences.
The album starts with a berceuse and leads us through a night filled with colourful Visions, a night followed by the Morning Song and the wise and dreamy epilogue Over the Prairie.
There is so much more to discover about this enigmatic composer: an ocean of works that he left behind. I hope this CD will awake the interest and will trigger the listeners and musicians to look for more."

"Homage to the Georgian-Dutch pianist Nino Gvetadze, who dusted off these fascinating works and gives them a velvety soft sheen with her loving and modest playing." De Volkskrant, September, 2019 - 5 STARS

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.

CRITICAL ACCLAIM
"The original and entertaining qualities of the piano pieces cannot be denied. Wonderful harmonic colours, striking rhythms, oriental echoes and other special features characterize them. 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, October, 2019
Tracklisting