The love of music, the music of love

This very important work, a rare alliance between early control and impetus of youth, orbits its second movement, Andante espressivo. Worms that préfacent this movement "The pale moon glows in the twilight / two loving hearts unite / ecstatic one for the other" saying climate and poetic intention.

As in the slow movement of his memorable HammerklavierBeethoven Sonatas Sonata No. 27 to 32, Solomon chooses to retain the tempo, that is to say in practice to prolong the happiness (because that is what it s 'acts) as long as possible. The result is above all praise: an unequaled delicacy, touching particularly highlights the nocturnal idyll nature of this disarming page. The listener is invited as to hold his breath, to enter the desired time suspended by the interpreter. Experience the music of an unprecedented refinement.

Other movements, which I can not describe, demonstrate the qualities of the pianist -Energy left hand pianissimo impalpable, incomprehensible beauty of the sound.

Carnival is the only major work of Schumann that Solomon is engraved in studio (June 1952), with the ConcertoSolomon / Grieg: Piano Concerto Op.16 - Schumann: Piano Concerto Op.54 - Liszt: Fantais; Icon: Solomon (box 7 CDs). Emphasizing the Brahms sonata, I would not diminish the merits of this record. In this music, to stick to those with me the most, is whimsical and electrical Sofronitzky, delicate Michelangeli (DG), Annie Fischer full of fire. Full pianist, Solomon is like someone who would find the right words to talk to the most diverse characters who always guess the characters behind the masks: melancholy Pierrot, Harlequin frivolous, they are all tastefully pencils. Throughout, the pianist is supremely chic in the gesture, and when necessary, sentimental in expression (Confession).

The three bis lisztiens allow especially to savor the edge of a source, an early and miraculous taken in 1930: Solomon, a former child prodigy, it is charming and extremely fluid as it should. And I think back to that photograph where we see dedicate his records, the sooty eyebrow, his admirers.

On this disc, an English pianist of the 20th century puts all his mastery and experience at the service of dreams, energy and fierce and juvenile world of a 19th century German composer Johannes Brahms.