PRODUKTBESCHREIBUNGEN
With Études-Tableaux (Picture Studies), haunted by bell-like tones – tolling bells rather than the Angelus bell – and by macabre high-speed pursuits, criss-crossed with bleak landscapes, perhaps we find the most modern, radical… abstract and sombre Rachmaninoff. This is exactly like the mysterious Obukhov, whose works Les Ombres (Shadows) and L’Ange Noir (The Black Angel) appear to tell us that the pictures are just as psychological as experienced. For this programme worthy of a painting by Soulages, piano playing brimming with colours, subtlety, perspective and light was required. Josquin Otal reveals these shades with tragic undertones and abounding with lyricism in a CD which he recorded over the course of a week at La Scala Avignon on the new CFX Yamaha grand piano.