Time Traveler's Suite

Inon Barnatan (piano)

Op zijn derde PENTATONE album, Time Traveler's Suite, herdefinieert pianist Inon Barnatan onze noties van een suite door ons mee te nemen op een reis door tijd en ruimte, van barokke stukken van Bach, Händel, Rameau en Couperin tot meer recente werken van Ravel, Barber, Adès en Ligeti. Het programma culmineert in Brahms' geraffineerde Variaties en Fuga over een thema van Händel.

Adès:
 Blanca Variations

Bach, J S:
 Toccata in E minor, BWV914

Barber:
 Piano Sonata, Op. 26

Brahms:
 Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24

Couperin, F:
 Pièces de clavecin II: Ordre 12ème in E major: L'Atalante

Handel:
 Keyboard Suite, HWV 430 in E major 'The Harmonious Blacksmith'

Ligeti:
 Musica Ricercata for piano (excerpts)

Rameau:
 Suite in A minor from Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin (c1729–30)

Ravel:
 Le Tombeau de Couperin

CD van de Week - Radio 4

"Barnatan is palpably in his element [in the Barber], with a real clarity to his thinking and a whole range of colours and shadings from the most delicate pianissimos to stomping fortissimos…Barnatan is utterly at home in the midst of counterpoint. He’s beautifully recorded too. A winner!"
Gramophone Magazine - January 2022

"Barnatan plays with delightful alertness of phrasing and his ornamentation is sublimely executed. Some musical transitions work better than others, and I did wonder whether all of the Baroque works needed to be bunched at the start…Still, I love the concept, and anything that can so effectively and seamlessly bring old and new together is very welcome."
BBC Music Magazine - February 2022 ****