Plays Debussy Nino Gvetadze

• 1 No. 1 in E Major 04:49
• 2 No. 2 in G Major 03:27
• 3 No. 1. Danseuses de Delphes 03:22
• 4 No. 2. Voiles 03:49
• 5 No. 3. Le vent dans la plaine 02:17
• 6 No. 4. Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l'air du soir 03:57
• 7 No. 5. Les collines d'Anacapri 02:57
• 8 No. 6. Des pas sur la neige 04:19
• 9 No. 7. Ce qu'a vu le vent d'ouest 03:30
• 10 No. 8. La fille aux cheveux de lin 02:33
• 11 No. 9. La serenade interrompue 02:31
• 12 No. 10. La cathedrale engloutie 06:07
• 13 No. 11. La danse de Puck 02:41
• 14 No. 12. Minstrels 02:32
• 15 No. 1. Pagodes 05:19
• 16 No. 2. La soiree dans Grenade (Evening in Granada) 05:49
• 17 No. 3. Jardins sous la pluie (Gardens in the Rain) 03:47
• 18 Suite bergamasque - III. Clair de lune 05:11
• Total Runtime 01:08:57

Info for Plays Debussy

Debussy in picture: I have been waiting for the moment to record Debussy’s music for some time. While playing his pieces I had the urge to keep playing, to keep discovering the colours, the touch, almost trying to reach for a perfection, which of course is not possible; and the further I went, the deeper I looked, I kept discovering endless possibilities for fantasy, and the images flew one after another into my head.

I did not want my next album to be just the next album; I wanted to do something useful and as we are often discussing the lack of classical music education among children and young people, I decided to do something about it from my side and organized workshops mostly for children, but also for adults.

I decided that the best way for me to awaken musical interest in children, to really lead them through music, was via drawings, so I asked them to close their eyes, to listen to the sound, rhythm, harmony, melody and imagine what would it look like if this piece was a drawing or a painting. Debussy’s music was perfect for this project, as he gives you endless space for imagination. The result was unexpected even for me, the enthusiasm that I saw in my young public’s eyes and the range of fantasy was truly amazing.

I worked with more than 200 children and received more than 200 beautiful drawings. I may not have changed the world, but at least I opened the doors to music to some children and I hope they will follow the route to this beautiful Muse throughout the years.

'... there’s always a sense of a musing, meditative intelligence exploring their layers of meaning in the very act of playing, as if she is spontaneously creating the music under her fingers....subtle pedalling and a beautifully intuitive, almost Paderewskian sense of rubato ...' (BBC Music Magazine)

Nino Gvetadze, piano

Recorded in Muziekgebouw Frits Philips Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 10-12 June 2013
Recorded and edited by Guido Tichelman “AZAZELLO Classical Music Recording”

Nino Gvetadze
Born and raised in Tbilisi, Nino Gvetadze studied with Veronika Tumanishvili, Nodar Gabunia and Nana Khubutia. After her graduation Nino moved to the Netherlands to study with Paul Komen and Jan Wijn.

Nino received various awards. The most important were the Second Prize, Press Prize and Audience Award at the International Franz Liszt Piano Competition 2008. She received the prestigious Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award 2010.

Nino Gvetadze has performed with many outstanding conductors such as Michel Plasson, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Michel Tabachnik, John Axelrod and Jaap van Zweden and with the Rotterdam, The Hague, Brussels, Seoul and Netherlands Philharmonic, Bergische and the Rheinische Philharmonie amongst others. She went on tour with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, . Kammerakademie Potsdam and Amsterdam Sinfonietta.

Nino has given various recitals all over the world, among those in Hannover (PRO MUSICA Preisträger am Klavier-Zyklus), Bayreuth, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, with Jean-Yves Thibaudet at the Spoleto Festival, Lucerne Piano Festival, Bunka-kaikan Hall Tokyo and twice at the Festival Piano aux Jacobins (Toulouse).

The repertoire of Nino stretches from Bach, Mozart and Beethoven to Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninov and further to contemporary music. Most of the selected pieces are very virtuoso and demanding, but in her interpretation Nino always brings forward its poetry and characteristic colors. The St. Gallen Tagblat wrote: “absolutely thrilling” about her performance of Tchaikovsky’s 2nd Piano Concerto and: “Poetry and Phantasy dominated indefatigably over the pure brilliance.”

Concertonet : “Schubert’s Wanderer Fantaisie was expressed with a total and admirable knowledge of the architecture of the score, enthralling with an outstanding feeling for timbre and colour.”

Nino recorded 3 solo CDs: Piano works by Mussorgsky (Brilliant Classics), Rachmaninoff Preludes op 23 and op 32 (Etcetera) and “Widmung” with Liszt piano works (Orchid Classics). Her recordings and interviews are often broadcasted on European radio and TV Stations.

Nino plays on a Steinway Grand Piano, kindly lent to her by the Dutch National Music Instrument Foundation.

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