Jean-Nicolas Diatkine – Jean-Nicolas Diatkine live 2021 & 2023 (Live) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:59 minutes | 983 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Solo Musica
Even at a time when recording techniques were not what they have become today, great musicians such as Wilhelm Furtwängler, then later Sergiu Celibidache, already had reservations about publishing their work other than from live performances. For them ‘live’ meant ‘alive’. That same credo was adopted to produce this album. Indeed, the wish for ‘immaculate perfection’ must sometimes give way to that for living music, which springs from a present moment that in its turn becomes the past… in an instant. In this way, performances are denied the possibility of revision, as studio recordings and subsequent editing allow. Yet if one is not careful in such reconstitution after the event, the very idea of a unique and privileged moment where the composer’s creativity can blossom forth unalloyed may be lost in the quest for seamless perfection, which however in reality becomes just an accumulation of faultless details. In that case the listener can do no more than follow their passage, without necessarily being able to grasp the overarching unity of a spontaneous expression.
This unity, or more precisely this striving for unity, is particularly remarkable in Beethoven, whose architectonic sense reached dizzying heights towards the end of his life. That is clearly audible in the last quartets, but also in the Bagatelles Op.126, ‘trifles’ composed about the same time as the Ninth Symphony Op.125. They are quite undeniably ‘trifles’, scarcely 15 minutes for the 6 pieces, but just like their supersized contemporaneous pendant, they nonetheless comprise a whole world. In this simultaneity of composition, it is as if Beethoven wants to establish a relationship of mutual inclusion between microcosm and macrocosm. ‘What I was able to do in large form, here you have it in miniature!’ Thus he lets us enter into a whole universe – by a little garden gate.
Tracklist:
1-01. Jean-Nicolas Diatkine – 6 Bagatelles op.126: I Andante con moto Cantabile e compiacevole (Live) (03:05)
1-02. Jean-Nicolas Diatkine – 6 Bagatelles op.126: II Allegro (Live) (01:58)
1-03. Jean-Nicolas Diatkine – 6 Bagatelles op.126: III Andante Cantabile e grazioso (Live) (02:10)
1-04. Jean-Nicolas Diatkine – 6 Bagatelles op.126: IV Presto (Live) (04:02)
1-05. Jean-Nicolas Diatkine – 6 Bagatelles op.126: V Quasi allegretto (Live) (02:02)
1-06. Jean-Nicolas Diatkine – 6 Bagatelles op.126: VI Presto-Andante amabile e con moto-Tempo primo (Live) (04:39)
1-07. Jean-Nicolas Diatkine – Sonata in B Minor: Sonata in B minor: I Lento assai-Allegro energico (Live) (03:50)
1-08. Jean-Nicolas Diatkine – Sonata in B Minor: Sonata in B minor: II Andante sostenuto (Live) (07:31)
1-09. Jean-Nicolas Diatkine – Sonata in B Minor: Sonata in B minor: III Allegro energico (Live) (05:41)
1-10. Jean-Nicolas Diatkine – Sonata in B Minor: Sonata in B minor: IV Stretta quasi Presto (Live) (11:13)
1-11. Jean-Nicolas Diatkine – Tristan und Isolde: Isoldes Liebestod (Live) (06:40)
1-12. Jean-Nicolas Diatkine – Ballade N°2 (Live) (14:03)
