Swiss Simon Bourque turns out to be a real-life poet-pianist on his debut album, “Reminiscence”.
The list of his competition successes is impressive: Simon Bourque was born in Switzerland, studied initially in Kiev and Moscow, and is currently a student at the Juilliard School in New York. With “Reminiscence”, the now 23-year-old presents his first CD, which he considers to be one of the most promising piano talents of the moment. Burki arranged seven works by his favorite composer Sergei Rachmaninoff with romantic treasures by Schumann, Scriabin, Tchaikovsky, Liszt and Chrysler, all played with tremendous sense of sound and great sensitivity. If need be, he can also communicate brilliantly, but his real quality lies in the differentiation with which he brings out the filigree structure of Rachmaninoff’s Etude-Tableaux Op. 39 No. 8. He is certainly a piano poet, as his unsentimental interpretation of Liebestraum No. 3 Liszt’s famous.
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Simon Burke
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Rachmaninoff: Etudes-Tableaux op. 39 Nos. 1, 4, 5, and 8; Introduction op. 32 nos. 12, 13 and Lilacs, Schumann: In the night & why, Scriabin: Etudes op. 8 no. 11 & op. 42 no. 5, Tchaikovsky: Valse de salon & October, Liszt: Liebestraum, Kreisler: Liebesleid
Simon Burky (piano)
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