Composer: Émile Naoumoff
Performer: Gregory Martin
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Release: 2021
Size: 1.15 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Fantasies (Excerpts)
01. No. 1, Las brisas
3 Elegies
02. No. 3, Mélancolique et slave (Version for Solo Piano)
03. Nocturno (La silencieuse ancienne ruelle de Tryavna)
Bulgarian Dances (Excerpts)
04. No. 1, Ruchenitsa
05. No. 2, Bavna Ruchenitsa
06. Cathedral in Tears
Réminiscenses (Excerpts)
07. No. 4, Désespoir
La musique dans l’univers d’un enfant (Excerpts)
08. No. 1, Conte d’automne
09. No. 2, Flocons de neige
10. No. 3, Une belle histoire
11. No. 8, La tempête
12. No. 13, Le château délaissé
13. Rhapsodie
13 Anecdotes (Excerpts)
14. No. 5, Le cygne
15. No. 6, Chez Brahms
16. No. 9, Old Big Band
17. Le parfum de l’âme
18. Valse pour Nadia (Arr. for Solo Piano)
Réminiscenses (Excerpts)
19. No. 6, Berceuse
Les saisons de la vie
20. No. 4, Entraînant
Fantasies (Excerpts)
21. No. 3, Romance
Emile Naoumoff, born in Sofia in 1962, was a child prodigy as pianist and composer in his native Bulgaria but was soon taken under the wing of Nadia Boulanger in Paris – “the gift of my old age”, she said. Naoumoff himself has tended to record the music of other composers, and so this recital of his piano music has been recorded by Gregory Martin, who has worked with him in various capacities. It presents music from across Naoumoff’s career – from that gifted childhood to a piece inspired by the sight of Notre-Dame Cathedral in flames in 2019 – absorbing influences from Slavic folk-dance to Gabriel Fauré, whose “grand-student” he is.