Chiaroscuro (Bach-Chopin)

Description

The poetic chiaroscuro of a talented young performer, Belle Schütz! Distinguished as “the future of French piano,” Bella Schütz chooses Bach and Chopin for her first recording. The young Bach of the Toccatas and the Chromatic Fantasy, and the mature Chopin, with the Nocturnes, the Fantasy, and the Barcarolle – a singular combination, where the divergences highlight the points of convergence in the imaginations of both composers. Rather than viewing these pieces from a historical perspective, Bella Schütz invites us to consider them as absolute works, evolving outside of classification, outside of category, to better appreciate what connects them: fantasy and improvisation, encapsulated in a virtuosity that is never gratuitous and within which light and dark are in constant conversation.