Labyrinth
2020 · David Greilsammer · Naïve Records
Released worldwide by Naïve Records, David Greilsammer’s solo album “Labyrinth” is an astounding, wild, and unexpected project, telling the story of a striking dream that has haunted the artist for many years. The listener is invited to embark on an unusual musical journey, through a maze of short pieces, from early Baroque and all the way to music of our times, including works that have never been heard before.
The album includes the two parts of my piece Repetition Blindness. The piece was supported by the “Adele and John Gray Endowment Fund”.
press
“The core of ‘Labyrinth’ is given over to Granados’s poignant ‘Love and Death,’ a rhapsodic 13-minute work with Chopinesque reveries and passages suggesting a forlorn guitar song. The two parts of Mr. Pelz’s maniacal ‘Repetition Blindness’ are broken up by Mr. Greilsammer’s arrangement of the Baroque composer Marin Marais’s ‘Labyrinth,’ which on the surface sounds chirpy and animated, but just below is spiked with tart clusters and fidgety runs. Finally, two fiery pieces by Scriabin provide transfixing context for an arrangement by Jonathan Keren of a Baroque piece for orchestra by Rebel, the aptly titled ‘Chaos’ - teeming, unpredictable and astonishing music.”
The New York Times - review
“A fantastical and disorienting adventure… an ambitious attempt by a thoughtful artist to rethink what a recital can be in our time… a listening pleasure”
Press
“Listening to this unexpected performance is like being on a roller coaster… It is troubling, and at the same time fascinating and delightful… the most interesting album I have heard this year”
Press (in Hebrew)
“Impassioned decisiveness and brilliant clarity… ingenious”
Press
“A courageous soul journey… There could not be a better way of getting lost”
Radio broadcast (in German)