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Schubert - Impromptus, Moments musicaux

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Label: Erato

Cat No: 6944890

Barcode: 5099969448904

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 5th October 2009

Works

Schubert, Franz

Allegretto in C minor, D915
Impromptus (4), op.90 D899
Moments musicaux (6), op.94 D780

Artists

David Fray (piano)

Works

Schubert, Franz

Allegretto in C minor, D915
Impromptus (4), op.90 D899
Moments musicaux (6), op.94 D780

Artists

David Fray (piano)

About

David Fray was born in 1981 and began playing the piano when he was 4 years old. He worked with Jacques Rouvier at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, and graduated with top honours. He has received numerous prizes and awards.

In this recording he turns to the early Romantic era and Schubert, with a programme of the six Moments musicaux D780, the four Impromptus D899 and the Allegretto in C minor D915, recorded in Berlin.

His approach to the music is typically questioning and illuminating. “At the piano”, he told the French magazine Pianiste, “I try to make music like a conductor, not just as a pianist. I approach the score as if it is a reduction of a symphonic work. The piano constitutes a way of getting nearer the heart of the music. How do you balance the voices? How do you find a progression in a movement? How do you put the polyphony in place?… It’s much more interesting to study Bach’s approach to the orchestra in the Magnificat or the Christmas Oratorio than to read books on how to play Bach on the piano. Each time I approach a new score, I ask myself how the composer would have written it if he hadn’t decided on the piano. Take Schubert’s first impromptu, for instance: it starts like a reduction of an orchestral score: a tutti chord and then the melody is presented on its own, as if on a flute. Then the winds take up the theme before the strings make their entry. Most of the work comprises three or four independent lines which sing together – a cello ostinato, counterpoint harmony in the violas, say, and the winds above it.”