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The sixteen lullabies – or berceuses – that pianist Bertrand Chamayou has chosen for ‘Good Night!’ form a captivatingly varied album. His programme embraces a diversity of eras and musical cultures: Chopin, Liszt, Grieg and, of course, Brahms through Balakirev, Lyapunov, Alkan, Bonis, Busoni, Janácek, Martinu and Villa-Lobos to Helmut Lachenmann and a world premiere, Bryce Dessner’s ‘Song for Octave’ Reviews BBC Music Magazine Christmas 2020 “A charm of lullabies, or an excess? If anyone could convince you that mostly slow and soft can work as an album sequence, it would be sonic magician Bertrand Chamayou…Within the narrow compass there’s profundity, and subtle variety…Chamayou weaves everything together in imagination and aerial delicacy. – 4 out of 5 stars Gramophone Magazine Awards Issue 2020 “The danger with this kind of CD is that you end up with so much slow, quiet music that you find yourself drifting off into the most pleasant slumber…But not here, for the programme is full of surprises and ranges wide, both geographically and historically… A treasure-trove of an album. Presto Music 16th October 2020 “The variety of the programme itself is matched by the range of pastel colours which he draws from his own piano…Chamayou is ever-mindful of the lullaby’s vocal origins, and every melody really sings here, from the spare beauty of Good Night! from Janáček’s On an Overgrown Path (which gives the album its title) to the more sonorous lines of Busoni’s Berceuse – one of the few tracks to exploit the piano’s lower register, and a welcome counterweight to the silvery music-box sonorities elsewhere. – Katherine Cooper |
