Maxim Emelyanychev, Julia Igonina
AP329 - 1CD - 66' - Jun 30, 2023
When the composer Sergey Akhunov discovered the ground-breaking book of 1947, “Jazz”, by Henri Matisse – a collection of prints of his colourful cut-paper collages – he was struck by its almost surreal nature, and he conceived the idea of composing music with the title “Jazz”, but which, like Matisse’s book, has nothing to do with jazz. That inspiration finally took shape when Julia Igonina and Maxim Emelyanychev commissioned him to compose a work for them. The result was Jazz, a cycle for violin and piano: fifteen miniatures, bearing titles taken from the prints in Matisse’s book.On this new recording, those pieces are brought together with two French masterpieces of the 1940s by Messiaen and Poulenc (whose favourite painter was Matisse), performed by Julia Igonina and Maxim Emelyanychev on period instruments – violin with gut strings and a magnificent 1908 Blüthner piano (part of the collection of the Piano Museum in Rybinsk).
SERGEY AKHUNOV Jazz
1. Lagoon I
2. The Knife Thrower
3. The Horse, the Rider and the Clown
4. Forms
5. Pierrot’s Funeral
6. Toboggan
7. Lagoon II
8. The Nightmare of the White Elephant
9. Forms II
10. The Swimmer in the Tank
11. Destiny I
12. Flight of Icarus
13. Destiny II
14. The Heart
15. Lagoon III
FRANCIS POULENC Violin Sonata FP 119
16. Allegro con fuoco
17. Intermezzo
18. Presto tragico
OLIVIER MESSIAEN
19. Louange à l’Éternité de Jésus (Quatuor pour la fin du temps)
