Lucas Debargue – Zal – The Music of Milosz Magin (2021) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

After acclaimed recordings of music by the great masters, Lucas Debargue shines much-needed light on a composer he is determined must be heard: Milosz Magin (1929 -1999). “Magin’s style is capable of both enchanting and surprising us,” the French pianist says. “Few composers of his time were so open to cultivating the art of writing beautiful melodies.” Born in Poland in 1929, Magin settled in Paris in 1960. After a car accident in 1963 he traded a career as one of Poland’s greatest pianists…

How to put something into words that is difficult or impossible to grasp? Something like feelings or thoughts? One possibility would be to turn those emotions into music, as in Victor Hugo’s famous quote, “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”.Lucas Debargue goes for one simple word – Zal. It describes a particularly complex feeling of sadness, regret, or loss, through which, however, greater enlightenment can be achieved at the same time. With this arguably unusual title, it quickly becomes clear that Zal is not simply a new interpretation of familiar material. Debargue, accompanied by violinist Gidon Kremer and his ensemble Kremerata Baltica, devotes himself in this project wholeheartedly for the first of his time to the works of Polish composer Milosz Magin.

Almost all aspiring pianists are taught pieces by Bach, Beethoven or Chopin at an early age, and Lucas Debargue is no exception. Eventually, however, thanks to his first piano teacher, Christine Muenier, the latter had the opportunity to explore Milosz Magin’s music from the same beginning. When Debargue played Magin’s Nostalgie du pays as an encore at a concert in Paris in 2017, he was contacted by none other than Magin’s granddaughter herself. With the support of his close colleague Kremer, he decided to record a total of six of the composer’s works, his sixth album to date on Sony Classical.

Beginning with the Andante for violin and piano, the spark of this enchanted music is immediate. The piano and the violin are introduced as equal instruments, dreamy, melancholy harmonies are developing, coupled with dance-like aspects, with the influence of Debussy and Ravel quickly apparent. In the following Piano Concerto No. 3, the impressionistic, partly atonal phrases become even more clear. Debargue proves himself once again here as an outstanding concert pianist – sensitive and sentimental and at the same time powerful and energetic in the middle movements – always serving the composer. This is also the case with Kremer, as he demonstrates in the later Concerto Rustico No. 1. Here the Polish roots of the composer become particularly clear, as Magin incorporates the two traditional dances Kujawiak (slow) and Oberek (rhythmically moving). Via the Four Vocalises and Nostalgie du pays, the performers close the album with the climax Stabat Mater, a highly spiritual work to which the artists pay all tribute and which musically and respectfully takes up its title Zal one last time. – Lena Germann

Tracklist:
1. Lucas Debargue – Andante pour violon et piano
2. Lucas Debargue – I. Allegro con fuoco – Allegro appassionato
3. Lucas Debargue – II. Allegro
4. Lucas Debargue – III. Presto
5. Lucas Debargue – IV. Adagio
6. Lucas Debargue – V. Allegro con fuoco
7. Lucas Debargue – Vocalise No. 2 – Andantino
8. Lucas Debargue – Vocalise No. 3 – Vivace
9. Lucas Debargue – Nostalgie du pays, extrait des Miniatures polonaises
10. Gidon Kremer – I. Allegro
11. Gidon Kremer – II. Andantino
12. Gidon Kremer – III. Presto
13. Lucas Debargue – Vocalise No. 1 – Andante
14. Lucas Debargue – Vocalise No. 4 – Andantino
15. Kremerata Baltica – Stabat Mater pour cordes et timbales

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