Composer: Béla Bartók, Felix Draeseke, Ferencz Liszt, Maurice Ravel, Adolf Andrey Schulz-Evler, Robert Schumann
Performer: Zlata Chochieva
Number of Discs: 2
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Naïve
Catalogue: V7959
Release: 2023
Size: 1.36 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
CD 01
Schumann: Waldszenen, Op. 82
01. No. 1, Eintritt
02. No. 2, Jäger auf der Lauer
03. No. 3, Einsame Blumen
04. No. 4, Verrufene Stelle
05. No. 5, Freundliche Landschaft
06. No. 6, Herberge
07. No. 7, Vogel als Prophet
08. No. 8, Jagdlied
09. No. 9, Abschied
Ravel: Miroirs, M.43
10. No. 1, Noctuelles
11. No. 2, Oiseaux tristes
12. No. 3, Une barque sur l’océan
13. No. 4, Alborada del gracioso
14. No. 5, La vallée des cloches
CD 02
Liszt: Etudes d’exécution transcendante, S.139
01. No. 5, Feux follets
02. No. 12, Chasse-neige
Draeseke: Petite Histoire, Op. 9
03. No. 1, Rêve de bonheur
04. No. 2, Intermezzo
05. No. 3, Incertitude
06. Schulz-Evler: Arabesken über ‘An der schönen blauen Donau’ von Johann Strauss
Bartók: Im Freien, Sz.81
07. No. 4, Klänge der Nacht
For her second album with naïve, Zlata Chochieva has chosen a magnificent, audacious programme, associating Schumann, Ravel, Liszt and Bartók with the lesser known Draeseke and Schulz-Evler.
Sensitive to nature and to the emotions it inspires, the Russian pianist Zlata Chochieva has conceived this very personal album as a patchwork, sometimes inward-looking, landscape with changing skies.
“A recorded programme is not a concert programme, but I also wanted to tell a story, propose a whole tapestry of emotions, open different perspectives,” she confides.
From Schumann’s very Romantic Waldszenen to the powerful Ravelian cycle which makes up the heart of the programme, right up to the most mythical and mystical nature of Liszt, and Bartók’s mysterious nocturnal music, she navigates through a wide diversity of climates, perceptions, and feelings expressed by their relationship with nature.
Here Zlata Chochieva finds plenty of substance, revealing a temperament both ardent and delicate: her playing is at once virtuosic and poetic, in keeping with the demands of this captivating programme.
The pianist also includes some less familiar pieces, like the Petite Histoire by Draeseke, a composer she considers to be a major discovery, who admired Liszt and Wagner, and Adolf Schulz-Evler’s Arabesque, written on the theme of Strauss’s Beautiful Blue Danube with strong Liszt style undertones.