Performer: Andrew Brownell
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Divine Art
Catalogue: DDA25233
Release: 2023
Size: 488 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Beethoven: Piano Sonata in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 27 No. 2
01. I. Adagio sostenuto
02. Chopin: Nocturne No. 8 in D flat major, Op. 27 No. 2
03. Hindemith: Suite 1922, Op. 26 – Nachstück
Debussy: Préludes – Book 1
04. Les sons et les parfums tournet dans l’air du soir
Couperin: 14eme Ordre de Pieces de Clavecin
05. Le Rossignol en amour
06. Liebermann: Nocturne No. 5 in D Major, Op. 55
Couperin: 14eme Ordre de Pieces de Clavecin
07. Double de Rossignol
Bartók: Out of Doors Suite
08. Musique Nocturne
09. Chopin: Nocturne No. 13 in C minor, Op. 48 No. 1
Schumann: Fantasiestücke, Op. 12
10. In der nacht
11. Barber: Nocturne, Op. 33
Brahms: Piano Sonata no. 3 in F-Sharp Minor, Op.
12. II. Andante
Debussy: Suite Bergamasque
13. Clair de Lune
These works explore the “otherness” of night and its potential for strangeness. The album also focusses on the theme of passion, mostly from the Romantic period. In the especially fertile imaginations of the 19th-century Romantic composers, this was a time when, shielded from the gaze of the Almighty, the world gave itself over to mystery and magic: lovers met for forbidden trysts, revelers drank and cavorted through the small hours, and spirits walked the earth. In this album, Brownell hopes to transport you out of our sterile, modern understanding of night and into the stranger, more interesting reality it must have been for most of human history.