David Fray - Schubert: Moments Musicaux, Impromptus

David Fray has declared his particular affinity with Austro-German music, and after two CDs featuring Bach (and a DVD featuring him in Bach concertos) he now turns to the early Romantic era and Schubert, with a programme of the six Moments musicaux D780, the four Impromptus D899 and the Allegretto in C minor D915, recorded in Berlin.
His approach to the music is typically questioning and illuminating. At the piano, he told the French magazine Pianiste, I try to make music like a conductor, not just as a pianist. I approach the score as if it is a reduction of a symphonic work. The piano constitutes a way of getting nearer the heart of the music. How do you balance the voices? How do you find a progression in a movement? How do you put the polyphony in place? Its much more interesting to study Bachs approach to the orchestra in the Magnificat or the Christmas Oratorio than to read books on how to play Bach on the piano. Each time I approach a new score, I ask myself how the composer would have written it if he hadnt decided on the piano. Take Schuberts first impromptu, for instance: it starts like a reduction of an orchestral score: a tutti chord and then the melody is presented on its own, as if on a flute. Then the winds take up the theme before the strings make their entry. Most of the work comprises three or four independent lines which sing together a cello ostinato, counterpoint harmony in the violas, say, and the winds above it.
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[emiclassics]

International release: october 09!

[emiclassics]

Le disque de David Fray parait le 21 septembre en France. Il sera en concert avec le programme de son disque le 23 sept. au Piano aux Jacobins à Toulouse, le 16 oct. au Théâtre des Champs-Elysées.

[ligretto78]

love how he speaks about the music, how he explains his feelings!

Great pianist! He has so much sensuality!

[sfkcbf]

David Fray has a remarkably sensitive mind and wonderfully sensitive fingers. Nothing in the music is taken for granted.

[BlackIsOut]

Why is he sitting on a normsl chair isnt that harder?

[DoctorMDF]

I've only come across this guy in recent months but I like him a lot. Lovely playing style and a great interpreter of Schubert. I think he will have a great career.

[frankyoriginal]

David, please améliore ton anglais:) Tu es en tout cas génial au piano!

[lllllllllllllll88]

Absolutely stunning...

[persthlm71]

he plays even better than Maria João Pires, a slower pace which suits this piece perfectly!

[chobeethaninov]

The absolute epitome of sensitivity, deep expression, and fluid beauty...

[lesliearts]

How can you explain Schubert's Ave Maria if you say that he did not believe in God? And how could he create this beauty without believing??

[Ixoyenn87]

wow!!! 

[cocojackson75]

Dans sa compréhension de la "lumière" touchant Bach et ici a contrario avec la "solitude" de Schubert, Fray démontre une grande attention aux vicissitudes du sentiment religieux chez ces compositeurs chrétiens. Cela enrichit considérablement son investissement artistique et le rend remarquable.

[Josefrainer]

His recording of the Moments Musicaux and Impromptus is, besides his touching interpretation which to me is so much Schubert as possible, a perfect recording technically, velvet quality of tone, EMI's engineers have done a great job here.