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The synthesis of modernism and folklore places Béla Bartók’s pianistic works into a special position amongst twentieth century piano music. Nevertheless, they often play a subordinate role in the repertoire of pianists as it is difficult to place them stylistically, and because they present an...more

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"It should be said that Bringuier’s interpretation provides a wonderful glimpse into Bartok's rather extensive piano output, with a special mention to the masterful piano sonata, which closes the disc." (SA-CD.net)

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Béla Bartók Two Rumanian Dances Op. 8a (09:08) Nicolas Bringuier

I. Allegro vivace (04:59)
II. Poco Allegro (04:09)

Béla Bartók Four Dirges Op. 9a (10:50) Nicolas Bringuier

III. Poco lento (02:42)
IV. Assai andante (03:20)

Béla Bartók Out Doors (14:57) Nicolas Bringuier

I. With Drums and Pipes (01:55)
II. Barcarolla (02:17)
III. Musettes (03:00)
IV. The Night’s Music (05:31)
V. The Chase (02:14)

Béla Bartók Improvisations Op. 20 (13:23) Nicolas Bringuier

I. Molto moderato (01:22)
II. Molto capriccioso (01:03)
III. Lento, rubato (03:26)
IV. Allegretto scherzando (00:46)
V. Allegro molto (00:53)
VI. Allegro moderato, molto capriccioso (01:32)
VII. Sostenuto, rubato (02:27)
VIII. Allegro (01:54)

Béla Bartók Sonata for piano (13:06) Nicolas Bringuier

I. Allegro moderato (04:42)
II. Sostenuto e pesante (04:59)
III. Allegro molto (03:25)

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Béla Bartók: Piano Works
article number: 92.568
EAN barcode: 4022143925688
price group: ACX
release date: 7. August 2009
total time: 61 min.

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The synthesis of modernism and folklore places Béla Bartók’s pianistic works into a special position amongst twentieth century piano music. Nevertheless, they often play a subordinate role in the repertoire of pianists as it is difficult to place them stylistically, and because they present an enormous technical challenge. Both these aspects are connected to the background of Bartók’s personality and his development: Bartók wanted to reconcile folklore and modernism without having to make artistic compromises, and he himself was one of the great pianists of the twentieth century who fashioned the technical design of his music according to his own outstanding manual skills.

This programme, performed by the young French pianist Nicholas Bringuier, presents works by Bartók written between 1909 and 1926. The Romanian Folk Dances op. 8a are powerfully virtuosic examples of a free treatment of folkloristic models within an idiom which is heading towards New Music. His Quatre Nénies op. 9a, on the other hand, internalise ritual folk-tunes for mourning into an expression of melancholy and a strong sense of subjectivity. The Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs are already further removed from these models, whereas the Sonata and the Suite Out of Doors – both written in the “piano year” of 1926 – are dominated by a confident and sharpened idiom of new music. Their intellectual and manual requirements not only make these two works pinnacles of the Classical Modernism of the 1920s, but also provide a fascinating outlook towards further developments in piano music. It takes both a courageous and a superior interpreter to do justice to these works.

Nicolas Bringuier has been a prize winner at several international piano competitions, e. g. the international “Grand Konzerteum” competition in Greece, the “Pro Piano Competition” in New York and the 14th International R. Schumann Piano Competition in Zwickau. Nicolas Bringuier has performed numerous concerts both in his native country and abroad. In 2006 he made his debut at the Salle Gaveau in Paris, in 2007 at the Konzerthaus in Berlin and in 2008 at the Opera Garnier in Monte Carlo. He regularly performs also as soloist with orchestras.

Watch a video about Bringuier, Bartók, piano technique and Bringuier's personal approach to Bartók's music.

Reviews

Pianiste
Pianiste | novembre-décembre 2010 n° 65 | Stéphane Friédérich | November 1, 2010

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Fanfare | Issue 33:6 (July/Aug 2010) | James H. North | July 1, 2010

The Two Romanian Dances is major Bartók: an Allegro Vivace lasting a full five minutes, and a Poco Allegro of four. In dazzling performances, NicolasMehr lesen

The Two Romanian Dances is major Bartók: an Allegro Vivace lasting a full five minutes, and a Poco Allegro of four. In dazzling performances, Nicolas Bringuier, born in Nice and not yet 30, makes the sparks fly—without ever seeming to rush. His instrument, a Shigeru Kawai (previously unknown to me), has a dryer, tighter tone than most grand pianos, which suits this music well, pointing up the asperity that Bartók carried over from his folk sources. Performances by Loránt Szűcs in Hungaroton’s Bartók Complete Edition have more local color but nevertheless pale by comparison. Bringuier and his instrument serve the Dirges equally well, allowing generous use of the sustaining pedal without spreading or romanticizing the music. This time Szűcs is bland, characterless.

In Out of Doors, it is Bringuier who suffers by comparison, lacking both the imagination and potency of Murray Perahia on a Sony disc as well as the subtle touch of Erzsébet Tusa for Hungaroton. Reverberant recorded sound (from Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Berlin) doesn’t help Bringuier, blurring some of the most rapid passages. One of the composer’s most distinctive piano works comes across as rather ordinary. The magic is back in the eight Improvisations (by the composer, not the pianist), subtle pieces that require careful attention to mood and much rubato. Perhaps Bringuier is best suited to music that does not rely on great virtuosity; the recorded sound certainly serves better at less than presto.

Bringuier’s Sonata is on a par with Perahia’s, but both are blown away by a stunning 1980 live performance by Youri Egorov in the Concertgebouw (Canal Grande CG 9214). His allegro movements have unmatched excitement, and his daringly slow tempo in the Sostenuto e peasante is mesmerizing. That performance is one of many that made the short-lived Egorov my favorite pianist.

The SACD layer produces smoother, rounder piano tone, but doesn’t help the reverberation—nor does surround sound. I prefer the edgier CD, on which the piano is better able to cut through the reverb. There is some fine playing here, keenly attuned to Bartók’s idiom, but some of the performances are not up to the best available.
The Two Romanian Dances is major Bartók: an Allegro Vivace lasting a full five minutes, and a Poco Allegro of four. In dazzling performances, Nicolas

Der Reinbeker
Der Reinbeker | 17. Mai 2010, Nr. 9 | Peter Steder | May 17, 2010 Jazz und Klassik

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Scherzo
Scherzo | abril 2010 | Santiago Martín Bermúdez | April 1, 2010

Al margen de algunas piezas juveniles, toda la obra de Bartók para pianoMehr lesen

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Diverdi Magazin
Diverdi Magazin | 188 / enero 2010 | Ignacio González Pintos | January 1, 2010 Festival Bartók
Gran acercamiento de Nicolás Bringuier al piano del húngaro

El catálogo para piano solo de Béla Bartók refleja el estilo ecléctico y personal del compositor húngaro, un universo capaz de concentrarMehr lesen

El catálogo para piano solo de Béla Bartók refleja el estilo ecléctico y personal del compositor húngaro, un universo capaz de concentrar sensuales ecos impresionistas, elegantes modales modernistas, vivos ritmos populares, aullidos expresionistas o delicadas meditaciones nocturnas. Todo desde un piano brillante, percutido, de poderosa energía rítmica y enorme fuerza interior, justo lo que nos ofrece la modélica interpretación de Nicolás Bringuier. Al margen del dominio sobre el golpeo y la resonancia, buena parte del éxito reside en la sobriedad de un planteamiento que resiste la tentación de extremar unos contrastes evidentes con su sola exposición. Bringuier no exagera ni busca grandes efectos y el resultado es, precisamente, espectacular en esa prudente rectitud – acertadísima, por ejemplo, la solución a los sucesivos tiempos lentos de las Cuatro Lamentaciones op. 9a, ejemplar también la exactitud de tempi en las ocho Improvisaciones sobre canciones campesinas húngaras op. 20. Un discurso de pulso exacto, firme y constante, cuyo rigor aumenta el atractivo de las piezas, con admirables progresiones en las que el sonido se acumula sin resultar masivo, mostrando siempre una económica habilidad narrativa; qué poco le hace falta a Bringuier para levantar el vuelo de las Danzas rumanas op. 8a. En el año 1926 Bartók se vio en la necesidad de ampliar su repertorio pianístico para ofrecer conciertos públicos, y de ese empeño surgen unas cuantas obras fundamentales de su catálogo como Ai aire libre, la pieza sobre la que gravita el repertorio de este disco. Bringuier se enfrenta con energía y vigor a las asimetrías de la escritura, recreándose lo justo en la delicadeza de su música nocturna. Un soberbio ejercicio de estilo que termina con una sólida, imponente lectura de la Sonata, otra de las obras mayores del autor.
El catálogo para piano solo de Béla Bartók refleja el estilo ecléctico y personal del compositor húngaro, un universo capaz de concentrar

klassik.com | November 2009 | Wendelin Bitzan | November 27, 2009 | source: http://magazin.k... Mit Trommeln und Pfeifen
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Für die pianistische Literatur des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts ist dasMehr lesen

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Fono Forum
Fono Forum | Dezember 2009 | Ingo Harden | November 11, 2009 Gemischt

Nach seinem Schumann-Recital legt Audite mit dem 29-jährigen Nicolas Bringuier jetzt eine Bartók-Auswahl vor, die nach einigen frühen Stücken mitMehr lesen

Nach seinem Schumann-Recital legt Audite mit dem 29-jährigen Nicolas Bringuier jetzt eine Bartók-Auswahl vor, die nach einigen frühen Stücken mit der Sammlung "Im Freien", den Improvisationen und der Sonate 1926 drei repräsentative Werke zusammenfasst. Manuell ist Bringuier absolut kompetent, musikalisch sind die Eindrücke gemischter. Es fehlt nicht selten an Intensität und überzeugendem Aufbau der Melodik, und auch die rhythmische Attacke fällt weniger prickelnd aus als bei Vorgängern wie Foldes oder Kocsis. Zu einem guten Teil liegt das allerdings wohl auch an dem nicht gerade freien Klang.
Nach seinem Schumann-Recital legt Audite mit dem 29-jährigen Nicolas Bringuier jetzt eine Bartók-Auswahl vor, die nach einigen frühen Stücken mit

CD Compact
CD Compact | noviembre 2009 | Benjamín Fontvella | November 1, 2009

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Gramophone
Gramophone | November 2009, Page 80 | Rob Cowan | November 1, 2009 Effective and elastic Bartok from a pianist who's always alive to colour

Two of the pianists who Nicolas Bringuier has learnt from in masterclasses are Dimitri Bashkirov and Oleg Maisenberg, gifted colourists whoseMehr lesen

Two of the pianists who Nicolas Bringuier has learnt from in masterclasses are Dimitri Bashkirov and Oleg Maisenberg, gifted colourists whose influences seem to find their way into this tonally varied and musically strong recital. The two Romanian Dances are relatively early works, the first and most Lisztian in spirit assertive and improvisatory, the second more like a playful burlesque. Bringuier's brightly buoyed performances are bang on the nail whereas his subtle sense of colour works well in the Four Dirges, again early works, the second of them better known in its orchestral guise as one of the Hungarian Sketches. There were times when I found Bringuier's approach to Out of Doors – one of Bartok's mature masterpieces – a little too free, the pounding "Pipes and Drums" of the opening losing something through excessive flexibility though the murmuring "Night Music" fourth movement, which is sustained at a fairly slow tempo, is hypnotically effective.

Bringuier is at his best wherever Bartok cues rubato, as he does on two occasions in the Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs (the third and seventh variations). The monolithic Piano Sonata refuses to slip OTT, although there’s a strong musical argument for taking a more measured than usual approach to the opening Allegro moderato. The work emerges as less granitic than in the hands of some others, its bald central movement more sostenuto than pesante (heavy, weighty), though the motorised "folky" finale goes very well. What we get here is a more elastic, less relentless Bartok than has become the norm in recent years, thoroughly enjoyable on its own terms, but with Kocsis, Sandor, Jando and – hopefully before long via reissues – Foldes on the books, not a front-runner.
Two of the pianists who Nicolas Bringuier has learnt from in masterclasses are Dimitri Bashkirov and Oleg Maisenberg, gifted colourists whose

Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk
Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk | MDR Figaro - Take 5, 19.10.2009 | October 19, 2009

Nicolas Bringuier ist Ende 20 und wird sicherlich Zwickauer MusikfreundenMehr lesen

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International Record Review
International Record Review | October 2009 | Mark Tanner | October 1, 2009 Batòk

Not yet 30 years of age, French pianist Nicolas Bringuier brings a vivacity to his performances that connects compellingly with the music of Bartók.Mehr lesen

Not yet 30 years of age, French pianist Nicolas Bringuier brings a vivacity to his performances that connects compellingly with the music of Bartók. While this repertoire is most emphatically not the sole province of young male pianists, it would be hard to resist Bringnuier’s razor-sharp facility and comparably penetrating vision – absolute prerequisites for tackling these wonderful pieces. As Wolfgang Rathert, author of the especially motivating booklet notes rightly reminds us, even today Bartók rarely receives the comprehensive appraisal he deserves. He permeated giddying intellectual spheres of musicology, as well as more traditional avenues of intellectual pursuit – and, of course, pure pianism itself – indeed, extending tar further than his much-lauded foraging for Hungarian (and even Romanian and Arabic) nationalistic traits. It was the composer’s immutably determined zeal for the piano, and the gamut of emotional states to which its sounds palpably allude, that would open up his mind to the possibilities we all too easily take for granted.

Five of Bartók’s important contributions to tile repertory are included on this disc, which incidentally brings forward a truly stunning quality of sound, particularly at its bass region, which somehow manages to bite without leaving lasting scars, and at the higher frequencies, which dazzle without blinding. Although we hear continual embodiments of folk music in all of the pieces (written over a period of 18 years) and are unfailingly struck by the composer’s unquenchable resource for rhythmic innovation, these can take the form of contemplative, utterly engrossed miniatures, such as the Four Dirges. Yet the folk constituent also plays an inestimable function in the more hot-headed, ‘febrile’ music we easily associate with Bartók’s larger-scale piano music – in works such as the Piano Sonata and the Out of Doors suite – both of which marked a significant return to piano writing in 1926, following a hiatus of around six years.

In all of these pieces Bringuier is in very comfortable territory, shifting strategy at the drop of a hat to meet the demands of this most exacting music. Take, for example, ‘With Drums and Pipes’ and ‘The Night’s Music’ from Out of Doors, in which Bringuier generates arresting and ecstatic evocations (not lo mention the wrist-cramping finale to the work, ‘The Chase’, which he brings off with an admirably robust brittleness). Eight Improvisations further confirms the composer’s desire to unshackle music from formal constraints, and the fourth of these, ‘Allegretto Scherzando’, emerges as a notably crisp and incisive rendition.

Although the Two Romanian Dances, with which the recording begins, are vibrantly encapsulated by Bringuier, it is the closing Piano Sonata that invites our greatest attention. Clarity of texture in the outer movements is never compromised, while, as Rathert comments, the central Sostenuto e pesante emerges as ‘a picture rather than movement’: I was most engaged by the playing here. Indeed, Bringuier’s Bartók compares very favourably with Murray Perahia’s, notwithstanding the latter’s energetic, muscular sway in the finale particularly. However, the preferential sound in this new recording, coupled with Bringuier’s combination of youthful joie de vivre and sense of measure in the more soothing material, allows tins recording to come forward as a resilient and worthy competitor.
Not yet 30 years of age, French pianist Nicolas Bringuier brings a vivacity to his performances that connects compellingly with the music of Bartók.

lexnews.free.fr
lexnews.free.fr | Édition Semaine n° 44 - Octobre 2009 | Philippe-Emmanuel Krautter | October 1, 2009

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Zwickauer Zeitung | 14. August 2009 | TK | August 14, 2009 Leute heute

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