{"product_id":"bertrand-chamayou_good-night_2020_war_1","title":"Good night!","description":"A PEACEFUL AND RELAXING JOURNEY AT THE HEART OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL LULLABIES BY PIANIST BERTRAND CHAMAYOU (4 VICTOIRES DE LA MUSIQUE) CHOPIN, LISZT, BRAHMS, GRIEG, BUSONI, VILLA LOBOS...INCLUDES: A UNPUBLISHED COMPOSITION BY BRYCE DESSNER OF THE GROUP THE NATIONAL. Through sixteen subtly chosen lullabies, pianist Bertrand Chamayou offers us an enveloping album with a diverse program covering the romantic era to the present day. The miniature pieces by Chopin, Liszt, Brahms, Grieg, and Villa Lobos are accompanied by rarer gems from Lyapounov, Alkan, Bonis, and Lachenmann. With this new album, recorded in Dolby Atmos 3D, Bertrand Chamayou reveals the dreaminess and magic of these sublime piano pieces. \"A masterpiece as much as a culmination of the genre in 1844, Chopin's Berceuse is certainly one of the warmest and most enveloping there is, just like the most famous of all, that of Brahms, while Balakirev moves from sweetness to terror in a lullaby traversed by the nightmare of a funeral march. Almost in the same way, Grieg disrupts the sweetness of his Lyric Piece with a brief episode invoking gnomes and elves. There is also the ambiguity of Liszt's Wiegenlied, which combines the purity of early childhood with the resignation of an end of life. In the lineage of these jewels from the 19th and 20th centuries, Bryce Dessner honored me with the friendship of delivering an enchanting lullaby composed at the beginning of 2020, intended for this album but also and above all for his son Octave. Far from the redundancy that a mosaic of pieces of a unique genre can generate, this succession of lullabies was first imagined as a narrative with multiple inflections, between innocence and introspection.\" --- Bertrand Chamayou ---. \"No musical genre expresses this better than the Lullaby. It conveys, behind its apparent simplicity, the quintessence of the human soul. It reaches the hearts of children just as it revives the innocence that slumbers beneath our adult shells. I have always had a soft spot for lullabies; I had a vague idea of this program for a long time already. It is undoubtedly fatherhood that has rekindled the desire, the act of taking on the role of one who lulls and comforts, while projecting one's own worries. The piano repertoire undoubtedly contains the most beautiful pieces of the genre, especially since Chopin, I undertook a small collection project, very exciting, half-childish, half-esoteric, which could be likened to a treasure hunt, or to reading old grimoires from which one would like to extract recipes for magic potions. I have never had a grimoire in my hands, but this is indeed magic, fantasy, even the fantastic. In any case, it is dreaminess, with all that it can entail: the extreme tenderness of \"Dobrou noc!\" (Good night!) by Janácek, the melancholy of \"La Toute Petite s'endort\" by Mel Bonis or \"Berceuse d'une poupée\" by the too-little-known Serge Lyapounov, the fairy tale of the first of his Transcendental Studies; the naivety of Villa-Lobos's poor little one (\"A pobrezinha\"), the hallucinations of Busoni's Berceuse or Lachenmann's Wiegenmusik, with its evocative resonances of a shadow theater, the passion sometimes contained, sometimes ardent of Liszt's great lullaby, the morbidity of Martinu's (\"Ukolébavka\") or the serenity of Alkan's prelude, aptly named \"I was asleep, but my heart was awake...\". --- Bertrand Chamayou ---. \"I am an insomniac. And I admit to deriving a certain pleasure from it, deep down. Every night I tirelessly oppose the same resistance to the embrace of sleep, I drag my feet to get to bed, I consciously fight against the weight that falls on my eyelids. I often wonder why I enjoy indulging in this state so much, oscillating between the reality that surrounds me and the assaults of paradoxical sleep, when letting go and daydreaming merge, teased by sudden jolts. Certainly the desire to taste each minute of nocturnal life again and again, like an ultimate luxury. In trying to grasp the mystery that emanates from this near-silence, the softness offered by human inactivity; listening to the beating heart of thousands of souls asleep in nearby buildings or houses. The moment of falling asleep is very common, whether one is insomniac or not, it is a daily, mundane moment. But it is also - and above all - universal. It is the interstice in which the most diverse feelings slip in, from tenderness to fear, from the fullness generated by tranquility to the anxiety of emptiness, the fear of being in the dark. It is there that the sources of joy and anxiety pour out, where each being, in its own way, experiences a great need for affection and comfort. It is these intertwining feelings, this emotional confluence that I wanted to depict in this album.","brand":"Bertrand Chamayou","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57578643980632,"sku":null,"price":23478090.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/vinyles.com\/en-us\/products\/bertrand-chamayou_good-night_2020_war_1","provider":"Vinyles.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}