Poems

Description

Louis Schwizgebel, poet pianist. Coming from a family of Sino-Swiss artists, Louis Schwizgebel became known to a wide audience in 2012 after receiving the 2nd prize at the Leeds International Piano Competition. A regular at major events, he won the Geneva International Competition at the age of 17 and two years later the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York. There is no doubt that music lovers will be charmed by the finesse of this poet pianist. And it is indeed to poetry that Louis Schwizgebel decides to dedicate his first record. In Gaspard de la nuit, Ravel transcribes three poems from the collection by Aloysius Bertrand, considered the founding book of prose poetry. It reflects the tenderness and sensuality of romanticism. The perpetual motion of Auf dem Wasser zu singen, the melancholy and lyricism of Ständchen, and the sinister whirlwind of Goethe's poem Erlkönig: three lieder by Schubert transcribed by Liszt. With Elis, Louis Schwizgebel immerses us in the wounded innocence of the poems by Georg Trakl set to music by Holliger, ending with the lighter theme of Liszt's loves: La vallée d'Obermann, the central piece of the first book of the years of pilgrimage. Poems by Louis Schwizgebel is a record with literary resonances for lovers of the marriage of music and poetry.