De la nuit Dénes Várjon

• Robert Schumann (1810-1856): Phantasiestücke, Op. 12:
• 1 1. Des Abends 03:48
• 2 2. Aufschwung 03:05
• 3 3. Warum? 03:03
• 4 4. Grillen 03:21
• 5 5. In der Nacht 04:06
• 6 6. Fabel 02:42
• 7 7. Traumes Wirren 02:27
• 8 8. Ende vom Lied 04:57
• Maurice Ravel (1875-1937): Gaspard de la nuit, M. 55:
• 9 1. Ondine 06:33
• 10 2. Le Gibet 06:12
• 11 3. Scarbo 10:08
• Béla Bartók (1881-1945): Im Freien, Sz. 81:
• 12 1. Mit Trommeln und Pfeifen 01:43
• 13 2. Barcarolla 02:45
• 14 3. Musettes 02:53
• 15 4. Klänge der Nacht 06:03
• 16 5. Hetzjagd 02:17
• Total Runtime 01:06:03

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“Negotiating dynamic shifts of emphasis,” The Independent has noted,”Dénes Várjon displays that most valuable of gifts: the ability to play in a way which makes you listen anew to the familiar.” This capacity is to the fore in the Hungarian pianist’s sensitive exploration of Schumann’s Fantasiestücke, Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit and Bartók’s Im Freien – a journey through three worlds of poetic imagination. As Jürg Stenzl writes in the liner notes. “All three works were bold forays into fundamentally new music that far transcended the limits of their time. They require pianists for whom transcendent virtuosity is second nature. ” The album was recorded at Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano in April 2016, and produced by Manfred Eicher.

Dénes Várjon, piano

Dénes Várjon studied at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, receiving tuition in piano from Sándor Falvai and chamber music from György Kurtág and Ferenc Rados. Parallel to his studies, he was a regular participant of master classes with András Schiff. He is first prize winner of the Piano Competition of the Hungarian Radio, the Leo Weiner Chamber Music Competition in Budapest and the Concours Géza Anda in Zürich. Várjon is a regular guest at festivals including Salzburger Festspiele, Lucerne Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Musik-Festival, Biennale di Venezia, Marlboro Festival (USA), Klavierfestival Ruhr, Kunstfest Weimar, and Edinburgh Festival. He is invited annually to András Schiff’s and Heinz Holliger’s Ittinger Konzerttage.

He has performed with major orchestras such as The Camerata Salzburg, the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, the Wiener Kammerorchester, the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra Budapest, the Camerata Bern, the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, the Hungarian State Symphony Orchestra, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich, the Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Bremen Philharmonic, Gidon Kremer’s Kremerata Baltica, and many others. He is currently working with conductors such as Heinz Holliger, Adam Fischer, Leopold Hager, Iván Fischer, Hubert Soudant, Peter Rundel, Thomas Zehetmair and many more.

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