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RAVEL, DEBUSSY, ADES, ET AL - Darknesse Visible - piano works - Inon Barnatan
Darknesse Visible
Ravel, Ades, Britten/Steveson, Debussy
Inon Barnatan, piano
(AV 2256)
Darknesse Visible Ravel, Ades, Britten/Steveson, Debussy Inon Barnatan, piano (AV 2256)
Avie Records
The Israeli-born pianist has conceived a singularly intelligent programme, focsuing on the intertwining of darkness and light. The title is copied from Ades's eight-minute work, which deconstructs Dowland's lute song In darkness let me dwell while alluding to Milton's Paradise Lost. Ades slows Dowland's music down and reorders things, making use of the piano's range of pitch, dynamic and colour. His piece is sandwiched between Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit, where Barnatan's dazzling fingerwork is accompanied by a certain freshness in his approach to this great music, and an appositely clean account of Debussy's Suite bergamasque.
Stephen Pettitt, The Sunday Times
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