Liszt: Années de Pèlerinage

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Chamayou (on a Steinway) offers a luminous, supple, poetic sensibility that you sense is uncannily close to how Liszt himself would have imagined and played these wondrous pieces. Chamayou's... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 21st Nov 2011
Catalogue No: V5260
Label: Naive
Length: 2 hours 30 minutes

Gramophone Magazine

March 2012

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Liszt: Années de pèlerinage, 1ère année, Suisse (9 pieces), S. 160

Work length44:49

$11.00

$14.25

Bertrand Chamayou (piano)

No. 1. La chapelle de Guillaume Tell (The Chapel of William Tell)

Track length5:40

$1.00

$1.30

No. 2. Au lac de Wallenstadt (At the Lake of Wallenstadt)

Track length2:41

$1.00

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No. 3. Pastorale (Pastoral)

Track length1:32

$1.00

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No. 4. Au bord d'une source (Beside a Spring)

Track length3:49

$1.00

$1.30

No. 5. Orage (Storm)

Track length4:17

$1.00

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No. 6. Vallee d'Obermann (Valley of Obermann)

Track length13:03

$3.00

$3.85

No. 7. Eclogue (Eclogue)

Track length2:50

$1.00

$1.30

No. 8. Le mal du pays (Homesickness)

Track length4:42

$1.00

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No. 9. Les cloches de Geneve (The Bells of Geneva)

Track length6:15

$1.00

$1.30

Liszt: Années de pèlerinage, 2ème année, Italie (7 pieces), S. 161

Work length44:00

$10.00

$12.95

Bertrand Chamayou (piano)

No. 1. Sposalizio (Marriage of the Virgin)

Track length6:47

$1.00

$1.30

No. 2. Il penseroso (The Thinker)

Track length3:04

$1.00

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No. 3. Canzonetta del Salvator Rosa (Canzonetta of Salvador Rosa)

Track length2:46

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No. 4. Sonetto 47 del Petrarca (Sonnet 47 of Petrarch)

Track length4:35

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No. 5. Sonetto 104 del Petrarca (Sonnet 104 of Petrarch)

Track length5:29

$1.00

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No. 6. Sonetto 123 del Petrarca (Sonnet 123 of Petrarch)

Track length5:44

$1.00

$1.30

No. 7. Apres une lecture du Dante, fantasia quasi una sonata (After Reading Dante)

Track length15:35

$4.00

$5.15

Liszt: Deuxième Année de Pèlerinage - Italie, Venezia & Napoli

Work length16:54

$4.00

$5.20

Bertrand Chamayou (piano)

No. 1. Gondoliera (Gondolier's Song)

Track length4:52

$1.00

$1.30

No. 2. Canzone (Song)

Track length3:27

$1.00

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No. 3. Tarantella

Track length8:35

$2.00

$2.60

Liszt: Années de pèlerinage, 3ème année (7 pieces), S. 163

Work length44:25

$9.00

$11.70

Bertrand Chamayou (piano)

No. 1. Angelus! Priere aux anges gardiens (Angelus. Prayer to the Guardian Angels)

Track length6:43

$1.00

$1.30

No. 2. Aux cypres de la Villa d'Este I (To the Cypresses of the Villa d'Este I: Threnody)

Track length5:17

$1.00

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No. 3. Aux cypres de la Villa d'Este II (To the Cypresses of the Villa d'Este II: Threnody)

Track length8:39

$2.00

$2.60

No. 4. Les jeux d'eau a la Villa d'Este (The Fountains of the Villa d'Este)

Track length8:20

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No. 5. Sunt lacrymae rerum (en mode hongrois) (There are Tears for Things (In The Hungarian Mode))

Track length5:50

$1.00

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No. 6. March funebre (Funeral March)

Track length6:19

$1.00

$1.30

No. 7. Sursum corda (Lift up Your Hearts)

Track length3:17

$1.00

$1.30

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With this recording of the complete Années de Pèlerinage by Franz Liszt, the celebrated French pianist Bertrand Chamayou makes his own personal musical statement to celebrate the composer’s 200th anniversary. During the anniversary year Bertrand Chamayou has undertaken the monumental feat of playing the whole of this set of pieces in a single three-hour performance at many leading venues throughout the world.

Pianist Bertrand Chamayou was born in Toulouse in 1981, and is among the most sought after personalities on the music scene today. After he became a prize-winner at the international Long-Thibaud competition at in 2001 Bertrand’s talent was spotted by pianist Jean-François Heisser who was later to become his professor at Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique. He went on to complete his training with Maria Curcio in London and was given precious advice by such great masters as Leon Fleisher, Dimitri Bashkirov and Murray Perahia. Recent solo engagements include the Théâtre des Champs Elysées, London’s Wigmore Hall, the Théâtre du Châtelet, the Lucerne Festival, and performances with amongst others the Orchestre de Paris, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the WDR Sinfonie Orchestra, the Orchestre National de France, and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.

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February 2012

Chamayou (on a Steinway) offers a luminous, supple, poetic sensibility that you sense is uncannily close to how Liszt himself would have imagined and played these wondrous pieces. Chamayou's technique, while huge, is also brilliantly clear: his way with Book One's 'Orage' is a phenomenal combination of lucidity and raging Byronic power.

16th December 2011

Far from being too much of a good thing, Chamayou’s survey underlines the depth and breadth of Liszt’s inspiration. If poetic imagination is the prime quality one looks for in a Liszt interpreter, Chamayou has it in spades...His shimmering “Les Jeux d’eau à la Villa d’Este” is the highlight of Book Three.

March 2012

one to make even the finest Lisztians look to their laurels. Hear him in the three Petrarch Sonnets, where a soaring sense of ecstasy is complemented by balzing eruptions of passion, everything engulfed as it were in restless and romantic enquiry. His 'Dante' Sonata brims over with a virtuoso savagery that dazzles and astounds...Yet even more remarkable is Chamayou's profoundly expressive response to the third and final book.

29th January 2012

Chamayou is clearly a superb Lisztian, and makes the sequence of 26 pieces equally compulsive and delectable to listen to. Everything should be singled out, but I loved, as ever, the wonderful free-floating inventions of the Petrarch Sonnets in the Italian second book; and who could resist Chamayou’s streamingly brilliant account of Les Jeux d’eau de la Villa d’Este, from Book 3?

1st December 2011

He's a pianist of tremendous resources, both technical and musical, possessing all the equipment to cope with Liszt's most extreme demands without ever flaunting it. He shapes even the most massive climaxes (his dynamic range is vast) with fastidious care, and much more pungent characterisation than he showed in his disc of César Franck last year...It's all the work of a major Liszt intepreter.

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