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Release Date: 11 December 2026
Label: Odradek Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 810042704886
Genres: Classical Solo Instrumental
Composer/Series: Le Jardin de l'Abime
Description
Three gardens, one cycle: from birth to maturity, from mystical ecstasy to the return to the earth. On Le Jardin de l'Abime, Roberta Pandolfi turns that cycle into a botanical self-portrait built from three rare works for piano. Croatian composer Dora Pejacevi0's Blumenleben (1904/05) is the garden in bloom: eight miniatures, from Snowdrop to Chrysanthemum, each carrying a symbolic meaning. Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji's Le Jardin Parfume (1923) is the garden at its most intense and sensual, its extreme pianism demanding countless kinds of pianissimo. Jonathan Harvey's Tombeau de Messiaen (1994) closes the journey, setting the pianist's touch against a spectral electronic tape in homage to Messiaen, written two years after his death. Pandolfi, whose Odradek album devoted to Wolfgang Rihm earned a double five-star rating from BBC Music Magazine, describes this first solo album as a musical self-portrait: rare flowers, offered with respect. Recorded at Officina 440, Milan, on a Steinway D.
St Salvator's Chapel Choir
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Francesca Federico Omurchu
Yoichi Sugiyama
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Montserrat Torrent
Ensemble Plus Ultra, Schola Antiqua, La Danserye, David Martin
Marco Fumo
Vincenzo Maltempo
Roberta Pandolfi
Michele Bolla
Viviane Chassot
Nicholeta Paraschivescu
Nicholas Susi
Miklos Spanyi
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