Fifth integral of Nocturnes published in 2021. This time, it’s the right one. The idea of Hyperion, from March 2020, to offer its artists to focus on a “pandemic project” while life stood still has borne fruit on the violin (Paganini, Ibragimova) and the piano. There are in this journey Nocturnes by Stephen Hough, a voice so personal that it is difficult to describe the freedom of speech, which compares to no other. Let’s listen to theOpus 55 no 2 : it is at the same time weightless, meditative, nostalgic, but always in search of light. In the coming years, what will be our relationship to the record, now that we have heard these artists pose and thus expose themselves, intimately, in front of us? The last time Nocturnes de Chopin thus appeared to us as the private “bubble” of an artist, it was with Pascal Amoyel. But then there was this winter side, “brooding”. Stephen Hough always seems to want to take the wings of Icarus, but without flying, only dreaming of the sun. It is overwhelming.
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